Sentence examples for upon these characters from inspiring English sources

And then what was important was that we built upon these characters and created much more, verging on the cartoonish".

Her encomium to them in her memoir is just right ("captivating, charming, light-hearted … capable of holding down a job and at the same time having deep feelings … impulsive") and she adds, "I will never forget my utter relief when I first came upon these characters.

"At the same time the fact that I've been called upon to play these characters is probably not a complete coincidence, so I have my own repressed people in my life that I've drawn on, and had my own tendency toward repression.

Barth's first two novels, The Floating Opera (1956) and The End of the Road (1958), describe characters burdened by a sense of the futility of all action and the effects of these characters upon the less self-conscious, more active people around them.

They are blank canvases upon which to build these characters.

But not to worry, I decided to take it upon myself to acknowledge these characters who were created, in some cases decades before the candidate rose to prominence, merely as a half-baked attempt to sully the name of a politician.

It's an oddity because these characters act upon you and make you behave a particular way.

But Egan's vision of history and time is also decidedly, and perhaps reassuringly, cyclical: the impacts these characters have upon each other are engineered not by coincidence but by connectedness itself, as the people we bump against and bang into become the story of our lives.

These characters embark upon imaginary adventures within a fantasy setting.

These characters are, upon first glance, seemingly vapid and removed from any recognisable reality (the film's title referring both to an inability to run their own lives and a lack of understanding for how the other half lives).

These characters are, upon first glance, seemingly vapid and removed from any recognizable reality (the film's title referring both to an inability to run their own lives and a lack of understanding for how the other half lives).