Sentence examples for smart character from inspiring English sources
Mr. Obama jokingly called her "Agent 99," after the "Get Smart" character.
You might recall this kind of thing from Ian McEwan's Atonement, where the (smart) author ventriloquises for a (not so smart) character.
For the light relief you'll need after those two, Toni Jordan is in that small group of novelists who can write smart, character- and situation-driven humour, which is to say laugh-out-loud comedy: take Our Tiny Useless Hearts to the beach.
Time after time, I'd be captured by a book and then a smart character would do something really dumb.
Of course "fem jep" (a woman in danger) is a trope of crime fiction, but the author was forcing a smart character to do something idiotic for the sake of the plot.
Geoff Boucher of the Los Angeles Times named Rose the ninth best sidekick of all time, referring to her as "the saucy and smart character who was key to the success of the Russell T Davies relaunch of Doctor Who in 2005".
She laments how smart, sassy characters in HBO's comedy-drama Girls let boyfriends abuse them.
And the book wisely leaves certain things between these two appealing, smart characters unresolved.
Elsewhere, "You're the Worst," "Silicon Valley" and "Transparent" are among the most observationally acute shows around and give me hope for the future of smart, character-driven half-hour programming on the small screen.
You seem to get cast as smart characters pretty often.
