Sentence examples for unfortunate character from inspiring English sources

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I think my unfortunate character here is in love with the girl he spies on.

Consider the difference between the famously beautiful boy, who spurned the advances of others, and another unfortunate character from Ovid's "Metamorphoses".

Did he really write an entire dramatic episode in which an unfortunate character called Shan is given the body of an epileptic just to enable him to land the pun: "then the fit hit the Shan"?

"Wow, like a time machine," April, Luke's daughter (an unfortunate character from the weaker, later years of the original series, who is, nevertheless, very perceptive), says, as she walks into Rory's bedroom.

(Whenever these people referred to themselves as "mutants", I kept thinking of the unfortunate character in Daniel Clowes's comic book Ghost World, who has a mole that has grown into a crackly brown carapace, covering her entire face. There would be no point in her applying to Professor Xavier's X-Men academy, even if she could fly or lift buses).

'Harvey Finkelstein's Sock Puppet Showgirls' Studio at Cherry Lane Theater This intentionally juvenile cult hit from Chicago partakes in the tongue-in-cheek Schadenfreude tradition that began in the 70's on "Saturday Night Live" with Mr. Bill (an unfortunate character who is brutalized by a thug named Sluggo) and continues today in the foul-mouthed po-mo hit series "South Park".

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But the film, which opens today at the Screening Room, still captures the vulnerability and aimlessness of its unfortunate characters with a heart-in-your-throat rawness that recalls some of the more poignant moments of Italian neo-realist cinema.

Along the way these unfortunate characters (Tony Lawson plays the man, Amy Bodnar the woman) find occasion to utter an avalanche of those acting clichés that long ago stopped sounding like anything other than hogwash.

They may accept how easily the happiness they are currently enjoying in their own lives could be shattered if certain of their more regrettable character traits were one day to come into contact with a situation that allowed these flaws an unlimited and catastrophic reign - leaving them no less shamed and wretched than the unfortunate characters we meet in Greek tragedy or elsewhere.

This attention to detail expands into the dovetail joints and structural failures of life itself, and better allows her spectacularly to disassemble her unfortunate characters, loosing them among the traps and tripwires of American life: the poverty, the husks of what was love, the harshness and beauty of nature.

Like unfortunate-character-in-a-Quentin-Tarantino film messy.

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