Other people Caroline meets include Martin Dear ( Karl Theobald ), a well-meaning house officer who is constantly failing his exams.

Tigger is always filled with great energy and optimism, and though always well-meaning, he can also be mischievous, and his actions have sometimes led to chaos and trouble for himself and his friends.

For example, a very typical Western plot is that an eastern lawman heads west, where he matches wits and trades bullets with a gang of outlaws and thugs, and is aided by a local lawman who is well-meaning but largely ineffective until a critical moment when he redeems himself by saving the hero's life.

" Kingdoms rise and fall due to what degree they are upheld " not by well-meaning endeavours ... but by commanding, over-awing talents ... retreat and withdraw as much as he will, he must not hope to efface the memory of his past services from the gratitude of his country ; he cannot withdraw himself from the following of a nation ; he must endure the attachment of a people whom he has saved.

Milligan visualised Eccles as a tall, lanky, amiable, well-meaning, but incredibly stupid teenager who often found himself involved — usually alongside Bluebottle — in one of the nefarious schemes created by arch-villain Hercules Grytpype-Thynne.

Complicating matters is Bat-Mite, a well-meaning imp from another dimension called Ergo, who considers himself Batman's biggest fan.

Murphy openly questions the Court ’ s suggestion of self-regulation, scoffing at the notion of expecting “ a District Attorney to prosecute himself … for well-meaning violations of the search and seizure clause during a raid the District Attorney … ordered .” Murphy suggests another alternative, somewhat parenthetically, whereas a trespass action for damages could be used as “ a venerable means of securing reparation for unauthorized invasion of the home .”

Though well-meaning, he often gets himself into serious trouble trying to " help " the lawcows, but has been a useful asset on several occasions.

: The loveable joker of the group, he was a well-meaning pleasant guy, but had a tendency to get himself into trouble due to his rather naive attitude.

I was curious to know if Lumumba's death, which is surely among the most sinister of recent events, would elicit from `` our '' side anything more than the usual, well-meaning rhetoric.

As Cooke writes, " In spite of continued opposition and criticism, and many well-meaning exhortations to caution from his friends, he looked neither to right nor left, but simply got down to work on the next symphony.

The missionaries of California were by-and-large well-meaning, devoted men ... attitudes toward the Indians ranged from genuine ( if paternalistic ) affection to wrathful disgust.

In the episode " Eight Misbehavin '", Manjula receives too many doses of fertility drugs from herself, Apu, and the well-meaning, but unsynchronized, Simpsons, due to difficulties with having a baby.

The strong pejorative connotations of pander apparently come less from Chaucer's well-meaning young Pandarus than from Shakespeare's cynical uncle figure who concludes the play's epilogue by wishing upon the audience all his many diseases.

She encounters many personalities, from the well-meaning Governor of Motavia to the eccentric Dr. Luveno, and faces off against an evil Medusa that can turn one to stone at one look and who seems to work for Lassic.

Jeff's new boyfriend, Greg, who is closeted from his own homophobic father, finds it difficult to relate to Harry's well-meaning matchmaking ways.

Dr. Eissler prevented many well-meaning scholars from seeing many Freud documents claiming confidentiality, even when their donors had not requested nor demanded that confidentiality, nor was anyone a potential victim of the revelation of those documents.

Although the story is mostly faithful to the original books, there are a few liberties taken ; Pippi is shown to be extremely intelligent ( flawlessly answering a strict but well-meaning teacher's questions ), which she attributes to her firsthand experiences in her world travels, and Pippi can fly ( rather, she lands softly onto the ground from the rooftop of her house, ala Peter Pan ).

The cartoon image of stolid, stocky, conservative and well-meaning John Bull, dressed like an English country squire, sometimes explicitly contrasted with the conventionalised scrawny, French revolutionary sans-culottes Jacobin, was developed from about 1790 by British satirical artists James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson and George Cruikshank.

Ideal women have absolute dedication to whatever work they do and for whomever they have great affection, although depending on the character's actual talents this can make for anything from ' quite capable ' to ' well-meaning klutz '.

Bourvil's well-meaning characters not only managed to make us laugh but also to save themselves from the Machiavellian designs of adversaries played by de Funès.

Though well-meaning and perfectly honest, Vorontsov as a politician was singularly timorous and irresolute, and always took his cue from the court.

Disease: Despite the protection garnered from being located in National parks, the mountain gorilla is also at risk from people of a more well-meaning nature.

The effect causes two well-meaning individuals having a conversation to ramp up different styles, resulting in a disagreement that does not stem from actual difference of opinion.

Although his trade has stained him red from head to foot, underneath his devilish colouring he is a handsome, shrewd, well-meaning young man.

Then Pius V. decided to banish the Jews from all his dominions, and, despite the enormous loss which was likely to result from this measure, and the remonstrances of influential and well-meaning cardinals, the Jews ( in all about 1, 000 families ) were actually expelled from all the Papal States excepting Rome and Ancona.

In the Old West, Coffin is a well-meaning " dude " from back East who mistakenly attacks a Native American village.

His time at UU has clearly mellowed him to a point normally thought unthinkable in dwarfs, as infractions that might make other dwarfs explode into a murderous frenzy evoke nothing more than a laugh and a good-natured reassurance that no wrong has been done, even or especially where his gardening was concerned ; when Windle Poons dug up his painstakingly grown lawn in an attempt to escape the coffin his well-meaning colleagues had buried him in, Modo reassured Windle that a little sod, a little seed, and five hundred years would be over before he knew it.

This can be due to a number of factors, including uncertainty in original descriptions, changes in weapons or nomenclature through time, mistranslation of terms, and the well-meaning inventiveness of later experts.

Rand used the term “ comprachicos ” to designate various forces in society which — either through well-meaning ignorance or outright malice — distort and deform children's souls and minds in an attempt to force them into social conformity.

Although Clara is a well-meaning woman, she often proves irksome when positioning herself as Bee's rival for the attentions of the single, older gentlemen passing through Mayberry.

It holds an equally valuable lesson for a society where the word `` intellectual '' has become a term of opprobrium to millions of well-meaning people who somehow imagine that it must be destructive of the simpler human virtues.

Many well-meaning persons suppose that the discussion respecting the means for baffling the supposed safety of locks offers a premium for dishonesty, by showing others how to be dishonest.

Many well-meaning persons suppose that the discussion respecting the means for baffling the supposed safety of locks offers a premium for dishonesty, by showing others how to be dishonest.

Leo is a well-meaning and innocent boy, so it is easy for the lovers to manipulate him.

He privately referred to Lincoln, whom he had known before the war as a lawyer for the Illinois Central, as " nothing more than a well-meaning baboon ", a " gorilla ", and " ever unworthy of ... his high position.

Laski claims that Part I is “ admirable propaganda for our ideas ” but that Part II falls short: “ But having, very ably, depicted a disease, Mr Orwell does what so many well-meaning people do: needing a remedy ( he knows it is socialism ), he offers an incantation instead.

Though well-meaning, she is rather rude and ill-tempered, frequently getting on Brian and Charlie's nerves, especially when she loses the key to the cupboard where their stolen money is hidden despite the fact there is no need for it since Charlie breaks the handle off the cupboard.

His role as the well-meaning, but bumbling, first mate among a small cast of shipwrecked castaways became the one for which he is most remembered.

Paraphimosis is usually caused by well-meaning medical professionals or parents who handle the foreskin improperly: The foreskin may be retracted during penile examination, penile cleaning, urethral catheterization, or cystoscopy ; if the foreskin is left retracted for a long period, some of the foreskin tissue may become edematous ( swollen with fluid ), which makes subsequent reduction of the foreskin difficult.

After that, he becomes well-meaning and self-confident, addressing to The Overseer in the Standard American English he had kept for radio broadcasts and in a humiliating way, losing his AAVE.

Doreen was a well-meaning but inept tragi-comic figure, who was often easily influenced by others, and Lizzie was a mischievous elderly rascal with a dicky ticker and unquenchable taste for alcohol that saw her employed in comedy storylines, whilst also maintaining a more serious dimension, sometimes contemplating dying in prison.

In the final film she's softened to a busybody who, though antagonistic towards Lady, is well-meaning ( she sends a packet of dog biscuits to Lady at Christmas to apologize for mistreating her ).

He is most famous for his roles as the bumbling and well-meaning Tom in the 1994 British romantic comedy film Four Weddings and a Funeral, and the dim-witted Hugo Horton in the BBC situation comedy television series The Vicar of Dibley.

Although she is well-meaning, her innocence and unyielding desire to return back home to Kansas result in much trouble for the main character of the book, the Wicked Witch named Elphaba, who didn't seem to know what to make of her, and whom she melts by accident while trying to put out a fire.

Online communication can wonderfully liberate the tender soul of some well-meaning personage who, for whatever reason, is physically uncharismatic.

Schrecker says that anti-Communist leaders believed that the Party used front groups to attract " fellow travelers ," who were " unsuspecting liberals and well-meaning dupes drawn into the Communist orbit without realizing that the party was using them for its own purposes.

His well-meaning interference in their activities, his help in reviving their financial standing, and his general optimism soon change their lives for the better.

It is possible for unintentional humor to arise when two different well-meaning people contribute independent pieces of information, but in combination, they contradict each other.

A reporter for The Sunday Times wrote in 2010 that he did not think the movement was a cult due to the lack of a cult leader and its well-meaning participants.