Sentence examples for time-honored character from inspiring English sources

In 1949, Beijing still retained nearly all of its time-honored character and magnificence.

Mr. Gaiman has a gift for these time-honored characters and demonstrates his command of the villains simply by showing how they approach a parking attendant (Two-Face, confused; Catwoman, confident; the Joker, crazed).

Brightly ornamented floats, melodious marching bands, and larger-than-life inflated cartoon characters are all part of this time-honored tradition.

And they showcase the many time-honored techniques that writers use to limn their characters' predicaments, from straight-up ventriloquism to the use of unreliable narrators to a "Rashomon -like splitting of peRashomon -like

But those crimes are part of a time-honored tradition.

It's full of time-honored Hornby misfits: sad, bewitching and always entertaining -- characters that seem born to flit from paper to the silver screen.

Michael Henderson, in The Daily Telegraph, caught the mood as well as any when he wrote that cricket "attracts good people," "reveals human character" like no other sport and respects "time-honored rituals".

But he said she met a time-honored standard for judicial nominees: that they be qualified and of good character.

He had a tab at the restaurant Fedora, got his shaves at Mr. Joseph's barber shop, and threw himself into the time-honored Village custom of fighting off projects that threatened the neighborhood's historic character.

And Mr. Nauffts employs this time-honored device to probe the various emotional fissures in the lives of his rounded characters.

Even the supporting characters in Seabiscuit's story look and act their parts, and in time-honored Hollywood tradition they nearly steal the show.