He is an attractive but not winsome character whose bemusement, resentment and perseverance are evident.
As Pierrot, his winsome character carried over into later French pantomimes.
On screen, Bill Pullman is that guy, rarely first choice for the girl, but you spend a lot of watching wondering exactly why not: see Sleepless in Seattle, or While You Were Sleeping; he comes late, back from the war, in the movie A League of Their Own, and Geena Davis leaves baseball for his shy winsome character.
It's funny because: it's a refreshingly original and light-hearted role-playing adventure where the overarching war between humans and monsters is undercut both by the winsome characters (such as pun-loving skeleton Sans and blushing crush-prone scientist Alphys) and the fact that enemies can be vanquished with a nice hug.
Fey and winsome these characters may be, with enough quirks to fill a season of sitcoms, but they are also very desperate.
Both more adult and more childlike than their American counterparts, with sexually explicit material and characters winsome enough, despite their omnipresent pistols, to make Dumbo seem hard-boiled by comparison, these pop-art forms have achieved a cachet among college-age audiences.
Parsons was a complex character, so winsome, charming and magnetic that singers in more popular bands often felt threatened by his presence, according to interviews with those who were there.
Those who have heard Ms. Fleming as Strauss's Marschallin at the Met will not be surprised that she is so wonderfully suited to Arabella, one of this composer's loveliest characters, a winsome young woman in 1860's Vienna who is under pressure to marry well and rescue the finances of her family, squandered by her father, Count Waldner, a compulsive gambler.
The intensity and vulnerability of her singing cut to the core of the character of the winsome, naïve Desdemona.
Like so many heroines of the past, Pfeiffer's character exudes a winsome fragility that could easily be mistaken for stupidity, and may, in fact, be stupidity.
But then we have the ghosts who appear sporadically to haunt the characters, not only the winsome blonde mother phantom, always wearing a white slip of a dress, but the ghosts of recently deceased children.
