Sentence examples for unhappy character from inspiring English sources

Dudley was an extremely complex and unhappy character.

Even his name was manufactured and mysterious: Gwynplaine was the smiling but unhappy character in Victor Hugo's "The Man Who Laughs".

And if she were to meet Masha, the terminally unhappy character she plays in "The Seagull," she might enfold the mournful girl in her arms and feed her chicken soup.

I find myself considering all his unhappy characters, all those killers, all those victims.

In Sartre's play his three unhappy characters are trapped, without an exit.

Eye-teasing, light-stroked surfaces tantalize the unhappy characters in "Beautiful Child," Nicky Silver's portentous play about parental love and the lies that families live by.

They may have unhappy characters, but even these provide a kind of negative comic relief — they act as kooky sad sacks, who are led into the light by the already happy people who love them.

Adapted from "Thérèse Raquin," Émile Zola's grimly fatalist novel, "Thou Shalt Not" transposed the book's unhappy characters to jazzy ol' 1940's New Orleans, where they remained infectiously unhappy.

(James) 'PARADISE PARK' The last and weightiest play in the Signature Theater Company's season of Charles Mee is set in an old-fashioned amusement park, where unhappy characters find refuge from the world.

Set in Kansas, Texas, and elsewhere in the Southwest, the stories in Nelson's fifth collection feature unhappy characters facing down their problems through self-medication, marital affairs, and other reckless but ordinary behaviors.

The unhappy characters include a loyal office worker who has just been fired, a furniture store owner and attempted arsonist covered with soot, and any number of travelers dragging their luggage as they wait in an airport line.