On the left, many were wary that character education would usher morality and religion into the classroom; on the right, people feared that schools were co-opting the role of parents and faith communities.
Cinema has long been wary of characters that are "too gay" unless they are deliberately extreme and stereotypical, such as those in The Naked Civil Servant or The Killing of Sister George.
Brookner's characters, wary of excessive displays of emotion, and governed by the constraints of gentility and decorum, don't really do anguish; it verges on the vulgar.
These lean tales dwell on romantic obsession, but the love object isn't a man or woman but the state of Kentucky, whose haunted landscape captivates the wary, mostly poor characters.
Be wary of shady characters.
But he remains wary of reintroducing the character as a standalone hero.
And underneath the character's wary, prudish exterior lurks an erotic spark waiting to ignite.
Marcia Bystryn, president of the New York League of Conservation Voters, said villages, wary of changing their character, often resist increasing building density even if that means forcing development to go elsewhere and contributing to suburban sprawl.
Then Ms. Fleming sang "Mein Elemer," the Act I soliloquy from "Arabella," in which the wary, slightly jaded title character tells her younger sister that she has no interest in entertaining an officious suitor who bores her.
We have become so focused on leaving no child behind and so wary of talking about character, lest it sound prejudicial, that the very traits we will need to thrive in the future, to transform our lives for the better, hardly ever gets mentioned, let alone taught, in our schools.
The three characters look wary, as if sensing some threat.
