This sort of character is young adult nectar.
I was trained to consider "disappointment" of this sort a character flaw of my own, a failure to comprehend, to appreciate what others have clearly appreciated.
In a year where popular culture is flooded with Turings and Hawkings, the bar is high for depicting this sort of character on screen.
Chief Inspector Dreyfus, from the Pink Panther series, is perhaps the archetype for this sort of character: one who must combat a formidable nuisance.
In the movie, Chumley begins as this sort of character, but his exile from wealth provides both a comeuppance and a chance at regeneration.
It is a national humiliation that this sort of character, who offers only twisted ideological zeal and naked self-advancement in place of ability and basic decency, became one of our most powerful politicians.
The Old Guard, White thought, would never put up with this sort of character: "There is a natural timberline in national politics beyond which certain kinds of men cannot thrive".
We need to see more of this sort of character development.
In many universes, the involvement of this sort of character in a major political scandal might seem very strange.
I think the director's inspiration was obviously the great spy movies, from "James Bond" to "Bourne," all these films that have this sort of character.
