Sentence examples for troublesome character from inspiring English sources

But a troublesome character is far from an unwelcome guest, he continues, arguing that "when characters work against the author they come alive and take on depths and facets that are unpredictable".

Arnautovic had a reputation for being a troublesome character when he arrived at the Britannia Stadium but Hughes has brought out the best in the Austrian, who will feature for his country at the European Championship.

Tâi-Lô retains most of the orthographic standards of POJ, including the tone marks, while changing the troublesome character for, swapping for, and replacing in diphthongs with.

To prevent unrest, Shackleton kept three of the most troublesome characters in his own tent.

He also sidestepped the richly entertaining theory that Dylan Hartley of Northampton – one of the sport's more troublesome characters – might take the reins from Chris Robshaw.

Instead, it became a prison for Aborigines where, for some 50 years, the state of Queensland sent those it sought to punish — " 'troublesome characters,'larrikinsns,'wanderersrs' or 'communists.' " In November 2004, the 36-year-old stepson of one of those "troublesome characters" was found dead in a police cell on the island.

Stephon Marbury was supposed to be riding the waiver wire by now — an expensive casualty of an extreme makeover intended to rid the Knicks of distractions and troublesome characters.

This is the perfect genre for writers who may be tempted to throw out manuscript pages when they get stuck — with magic realism, you can just conjure up a flaming tornado and whisk troublesome characters away.

Happiness is permitted in this novel about a divorced mother and her daughter who survive a hot summer in Springfield, Ill., despite the intrusions of troublesome characters; by the end, the mother has seen in the daughter her own power to be kind, insightful and brave.

Another solution was to replace troublesome characters with near equivalents, for example substituting for or using a standard followed by an interpunct to represent.

See, for generations after the "witches" were hanged and buried, the community -- at least the politically powerful -- thought they were well rid of these troublesome characters and neither preserved their execution site nor where their bodies were interred.