Sentence examples for surrogate characters from inspiring English sources

As the alignment method was strongly influenced by the presence of missing data, a section of missing data 50 bp in length in the S7 intron sequence of H. erectus was temporarily replaced with corresponding characters from its sister species H. hippocampus (the surrogate characters were removed for subsequent analyses).

Might Gadget be Shane Meadows' surrogate character in This Is England 90?

In Blanche DuBois, Williams had written a kind of gay surrogate character - a very refined, neurotic woman, hardly able to own up to her sexual identity.

This latter experience fuelled his first half-hour television play, The Museum Attendant (1973), in which his surrogate character, Howard, played by Horace James, felt humiliated by a white, heavily tattooed colleague.

NARRATOR And so Cristina and Maria Elena continued their sapphic love in a way not only concordant with beauty's abiding truths but also stimulating to any ageing film-makers who, and I'd like to make it plain, have chosen to stay well out of this picture, not even granting themselves their customary surrogate character.

His pitch competed against three others: Dan Freedman's fantasy retelling, Matthew Graham's Gothic-styled pitch, and Mark Gatiss's reboot, which made the Doctor the audience surrogate character, instead of his companions.

PAT RYAN 'ALVIN AND THE CHIPGUNKS' (PG, 1 32) Adults who remember this musical cartoon franchise created by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. in 1958 may derive fleeting amusement from this update, which concerns the efforts of the title characters' surrogate dad, Dave Seville Jason Leee), to rescue them from the clutches of a perfidious record executive (a delightfully despicable, movie-stealing David Cross).

'ALVIN AND THE CHIPGUNKS' (PG, 1 32) Adults who remember this musical cartoon franchise may derive fleeting amusement from this update, which concerns the efforts of the title characters' surrogate dad, Dave Seville Jason Leee), to rescue them from the clutches of a perfidious record executive (a delightfully despicable, movie-stealing David Cross).

Mr. Payne also plays Bukowski's literary surrogate, Henry Chinaski, a character in some of the stories.

The musicians on stage -- Mr. Morgenstern even sports a mustache like the musician in the story, and Ms. Mayadas is wearing a full-length period gown -- serve as surrogates for the characters as they play the sonata that is the story's centerpiece.

The surrogate family that these characters created was a huddle against the indignities and frustrations of real life — and none of them pretended otherwise.