Sentence examples for traits of character from inspiring English sources

Our job is to find out what traits of character we need to become virtuous.

"Morality isn't traits of character but a complicated set of judgments," he said.

In newspaper obituaries, it was long customary to lavish praise on the subjects, noting laudable traits of character.

Efron's sheer exuberance is reciprocated by the camera, which picks up physical facets and contours and reflects them back as if they were deep-rooted traits of character.

Finally, to be a quarterback is to possess those ineffable traits of character — work ethic, poise under pressure, resilience after even a devastating mistake.

Simone Weil, in describing traits of character of the Romans, wrote, "With unswerving resolution, they always sacrificed everything to considerations of prestige..."....

The competition will be one that highlights the character traits of characters in this genre (e.g., the child geniuses might compete in a Battle of the Wits, but would probably not be suited for a beauty pageant).

That's why Jacobs manages to avoid depicting teen-agers as funny, kooky slobs or as typecast members of cliques: he knows that the dares and discoveries of the age have a mortal intensity, which lets him see past the traits of characters to the essence of character, in its variety and depth.

Groening conceived Bart as an extreme version of the typical misbehaving child character, merging all of the extreme traits of characters such as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn into one person.

To test its efficacy — and just for fun — researchers at Almaden have fed Watson scripts from the "Star Wars" movies to see if it can figure out the personality traits of characters.

This was a condition that had newcomers take on the physical traits of characters from 1979's The Driller Killer, that superb NY cult slasher movie where all the women look vaguely Laraine Newmanish and all the men look like combos of John Lurie and Richard Hell.