A genial Frankie Faison seems awfully folksy as William, especially since his gentle, upright character unexpectedly turns vengeful.
Cooper often played a brave, laconic, and somewhat reticent man whose upright character compels him to perform heroic actions that he does not purposely seek.
He has been disingenuous in explaining his fund-raising for the party, a surprising stain on an almost unbearably upright character.
Under the laws of zina, four male witnesses, all Muslims and all citizens of upright character, must testify to having seen a rape take place.
He was brought up by his maternal grandmother and his aunt a devoted woman of stern upright character, who became his father's second wife and who had a major influence on his early development.
We are living through one of those recurring moments — 1912, 1980, and 1992 were others — when disgust with the two big parties stirs a longing for an outsider of upright character, untainted by dirty money or political dealmaking.
Mr. Pegg's performance here, befitting his uptight, upright character, is somewhat one-note, if otherwise likable, with little of the Everyman depths that were finally tapped in "Shaun".
They demanded for punishment Marius Celsus, consul elect, who had been Galba's faithful friend even to the very end; for they hated his energy and upright character as if they were vicious qualities.
Rather than the wicked, stingy factory owner that is the representative caricature in the tale of Chinas low-cost industrial miracle, Zhang was portrayed by employees in interviews with Southern Metropolis Daily as a caring and upright character.
But when Opimius, who during the rest of his career had been a man of sterling and upright character, was afterwards condemned by public trial, his conviction aroused no sympathy on the part of the citizens because of the recollection of his cruelty in this instance.
She was dismayed to hear the students call the upright character her father played "a jerk".
