There is a cast of splendid characters, including the ailing Professor Munroe and his friendly, helpful wife.
It's an appealing story with some splendid characters including Keiran Black, the deeply troubled boy with behavioural problems at school, Vivian the terrific counsellor to whom both Maddie and Keiran are assigned, and Maddie's sparkly little brother Charlie.
A splendid character, she is survived by her daughter Durell Godfrey.
Once their overlords, the Aztec ambassadors, had given up their vain attempt to get rid of the Spaniards, the Totonacs invited Cortés and his crew farther up the coast to meet their chieftain, a splendid character who has gone down in history as the "fatcacique" (ruler).Thanks to his hospitality, Cortés built the second Villa Rica de la Veracruz, with its own imposing fortress.
A very complicated and somewhat unlikely plot (think Ballet Shoes meets Emil and the Detectives) involving kidnapping, drugs, and a splendid character named Mr Beauvoisin, takes her to Stratford East Theatre where she meets and learns a lot about acting from the legendary, and real, Joan Littlewood.
Amid the details that occupants could expect to find, like Venetian blinds and a waterproof scenic wall covering above the bathroom tile, was the promise that "great care is taken in the choice of tenants so as to maintain the splendid character of the Mount Vernon".
I didn't realize that this German émigré was the actor who played the splendid character role of the pickpocket, but I mentioned him recently in the magazine, in another context — his angular, antic role as a dance-band conductor in Ernst Lubitsch's 1919 comedy "The Oyster Princess".
The monument calls Huggins "A splendid character who made priceless contributions to baseball".
Last year our reviewer, Will Blythe, called this "a splendid novel" with "characters so fresh yet familiar that they might be helping themselves to what's in your refrigerator even as you read about them".
To his own and later generations, the nobility of his mature character, his splendid achievement in his art, and his zeal to raise both the moral and social standing of his fellow actors combined to make him one of the great figures of the American stage.
Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove was a brilliant dissection of the folly of nuclear deterrence marked by Peter Seller's bravura performance in three roles and the splendid names given to the characters -- from Generals Buck Turgidson and Jack D. Ripper to Major Bat Guano and Dr. Strangelove himself.
