Sentence examples for surprising characters from inspiring English sources

That way, you get both surprising characters and a window on a subculture with its own lessons and provocations.

Film needs challenging and surprising characters in order to bloom; the dismissal of any eccentric, remotely interesting female character as "just another Manic Pixie Dream Girl" is misogynistic.

But one of the most surprising characters in "Be Like Others" is an Iranian woman — a very strong-willed woman — who is seeking a sex-change operation.

The Last Days of Dogtown is an elegantly written survey of surprising characters in an exotic landscape, but the purpose of the novel goes beyond displaying a gallery of eccentrics.

TAL is all about surprising, character-driven stories.

Frédéric Mallo, a small Alsatian winery, transformed 2006 sylvaner grapes into a floral, piquant, light wine of surprising character.

Professor Tao Ran, the founder of the center and a pioneer in Web-addiction treatment in China, is a particularly surprising character.

The prices included desserts, but no tax, tip, nor the bottle of Pacific Rim dry Riesling '02 California (which had surprising character for $22).

Jordan achieves this transformation through the introduction of a surprising character: 16-year-old Hench, who with his 13-year-old brother, Bobby, has slipped under the radar of formal education and social welfare.

In ways big and small, Jane is a constantly surprising character: as she insinuates herself into the wary Sadie's life, showing up at her bingo games and ferrying her to and from the supermarket, a film that hinges initially on a moral quandary turns into a poetic meditation on loneliness and friendship.

It also puts the history of royal art collecting on view, and in the end that is the best defence of the Queen's art hoard – that it has grown organically since the 17th century as a unique collection, with its own often surprising character.