"You don't turn to your companion and say, 'Ooh, look here's a worthless stone.' " Like a character in an old-fashioned boy's adventure tale, Randall James Hamilton Zwinge left his Toronto home at 17 to join a carnival, wrapping a turban around his head and calling himself Prince Ibis.
Bye-bye big man Barren rocks, barren nationalism The Finn red line Let us in ReprintsDetails, detailsBut competence is worthless without direction and, frankly, character.
A few years later, at another venue, I was told how much my character sucked -- that she defined worthless.
Still, out of the 25 characters in the game, most are worthless in deathmatch.
"Then I would get people hating me because of the character, and it felt like I was worthless".
From a UX perspective, we keep learning that interfaces with constraints are successful, and it seems like such a straight-forward principle (140 characters, ahem), but it's kind of worthless on it's own.
But they play characters who never invented anything other than obscure, ultimately worthless financial instruments to enrich themselves.
One character was sexually abused; one is throwing away her life on a worthless man who mistreats her; one has become deeply religious; and one is an overachiever who was valedictorian at Spelman.
Guare's accomplishment is to capture the bright effervescence of his characters' desires, as well as the punishing dark fact that everything they want seems to be worthless.
In "Promises, Promises," an adaptation of the screenplay of "The Apartment," by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, Simon buffs up the dominant character of his sixties comedies: the trapped bourgeois soul who finds that almost everything he yearns for is worthless.
