Sentence examples for tertiary characters from inspiring English sources

Romantically, the guys in our lives are tertiary characters at best, antagonists at worst.

In fact, the opening group scene is uncharacteristic, although chapter two describes a different meeting and introduces another seven tertiary characters.

An inordinate amount of time was spent on her father's (Peter Scolari) coming out as gay and the dissolution of her parents' marriage when these figures had only been tertiary characters at best.

Secondary and tertiary characters — Gina; Bobby's wife, Chris (Aleksa Palladino); his thuggish brother-in-law, Dex (Michael Shannon); that old man in the diamond district — do much more than carry the plot forward.

The overarching story is Bowman's, but the book has a wonderfully generous way with point of view, slipping fluidly from Bowman's angle to that of innumerable secondary and tertiary characters – his publishing colleagues, his in-laws, his lovers (even as they betray him), his writer and artist friends – sometimes for a sustained episode, sometimes just for a brief vignette.

Tertiary characters of no rank wear simple clothing without embroidery.

What would happen if her tertiary character were made central?

West and Swift are the central figures in the world of "Famous," but I want to talk for a moment about a tertiary character: Sister Nancy.

For as you sit through your third drawing room comedy or well-made social drama in as many days, waiting for a tertiary character named Morrison or Rose or Parker to announce the duchess or clear the silver or light his lordship's cigar, your patience with the theater of the absurdly wealthy can wear a little thin.

But despite this prominent role Eddie is at best a tertiary character.

Marvels first foray into scripted podcasting is an interesting storytelling experiment that treats the famous mutant as a near tertiary character as FBI agents try to piece together a series of grisly murders in a small Alaskan town that would seem to point to everyone's favorite unkillable adamantium claw equipped friend.