Its famous catechetical school, while sacrificing none of its famous passion for orthodoxy since the days of Pantaenus, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen of Alexandria, had begun to take on an almost secular character in the comprehensiveness of its interests, and had counted influential pagans among its serious auditors.

* In Nikolai Gogol's play The Inspector General, a character Hlestakov lies about playing whist with a group of influential ambassadors to look important.

* Prophile-the presentation of a very influential character from the hacking underground.

Through her status, Messalina became very influential, but in character she was very insecure.

A panel of fashion experts convened by GQ in 2006 called it both the best suit in film history, and the most influential on men's style, stating that it has since been copied for Tom Cruise's character in Collateral and Ben Affleck's character in Paycheck.

Journalist John L. O ' Sullivan, an influential advocate for Jacksonian democracy and a complex character described by Julian Hawthorne as " always full of grand and world-embracing schemes ", wrote an article in 1839, which, while not using the term " Manifest Destiny ", did predict a " divine destiny " for the United States based upon values such as equality, rights of conscience, and personal enfranchisement " to establish on earth the moral dignity and salvation of man ".

He was influential in the development of O ' Neill's character and personality from the beginning.

In a 2003 collection of essays in honour of Eileen Barker, the influential Oxford University-based religious scholar Bryan R. Wilson commented that INFORM was " often in a position from which it can reassure relatives about the character, disposition, policy, provenance and prospects of a given movement.

Ireton is the main character in John Attenborough's 1987 historical fiction novel Destiny Our Choice, which gives a generally positive view of Ireton, claiming that he was influential in saving the life of Hugh O ' Neill after the siege of Limerick.

As an articulate, well-connected and influential woman who outlived her first husband by more than 50 years, Mahler-Werfel was for decades the main authority on the mature Mahler's values, character and day-to-day behaviour, and her various publications quickly became the central source material for Mahler scholars and music-lovers alike.

In other cases zaibatsu are used simply to provide the background for a character from an influential family, such as in the case of the F4 in Boys Before Flowers who are the sons and heirs of the four ( fictional ) biggest corporations in Japan ; this is a reference to the Big Four.

What makes Arthur Golding an influential and important character to study is his desire to pull Christian symbolism from the text and write in such a way as to make the work accessible to his peers.

The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.

Together with Richard Lester's offbeat 1976 film Robin and Marian, Robin of Sherwood is one of the most influential treatments of the core Robin Hood legend since The Adventures of Robin Hood, featuring a realistic period setting and introducing the character of a Saracen outlaw.

In 1992, Chunsoft's role-playing game Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride featured an influential monster-collecting mechanic, where monsters can be defeated, captured, added to the party, follow the player character around as a pet, and gain their own experience levels.

* Friedrich Nietzsche, in his influential work Thus Spoke Zarathustra, created the character of the hermit Zarathustra ( named after the Zoroastrian prophet Zarathushtra ), who emerges from seclusion to extol his philosophy to the rest of humanity.

The ideas in the Six livres on the importance of climate in the shaping of a people's character were also influential, finding a prominent place in the work of Giovanni Botero ( 1544 – 1617 ) and later in Baron de Montesquieu's ( 1689 – 1755 ) climatic determinism.

Lord Stanhope's character was generous, and his conduct consistent ; but his speeches were not influential.

Osborne Gordon, the influential Oxford don, Sir John Josiah Guest, engineer, entrepreneur, and Member of Parliament, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, the Hollywood character actor, Ralph Lingen, 1st Baron Lingen, an influential Victorian civil servant ; Dr William Macmichael, physician to Kings George IV and William IV and author of The Gold-Headed Cane, Bishop Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore and author of Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Henry John Roby, the classical scholar, writer on Roman law, and Member of Parliament, Bishop Francis Henry Thicknesse, inaugural Suffragan Bishop of Leicester, General Sir Charles Warren, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police during the period of the Jack the Ripper Murders and a General in the Second Boer War, and Cyril Washbrook, the cricketer who played for Lancashire and England.

Paper-and-pencil role-playing games were also influential ; the character customization system was based on Traveller's methodology and was implemented in the fictional military branches which, by allowing multiple character paths, the player could receive a more open-ended gameplay experience.

Thorndike, an early, influential behavioral psychologist, " proposed that a person's morality ( character ) could be measured in quantitative terms ," just like intelligence.

* BBS Productions, highly influential film production company of early 1970s New Hollywood

Another American writer in a similar vein was Thorne Smith, whose works ( such as Topper and The Night Life of the Gods ) were popular and influential, and often adapted for film and television.

Cahiers du Cinéma (, Notebooks on Cinema ) is an influential French film magazine founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca.

It is considered important by film historians as one of the first feature length American films ( most previous films had been less than one hour long ), and it changed the industry's standard in a way still influential today .< ref >

He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors and he epitomized the group of filmmakers known as the New Hollywood, that includes Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, William Friedkin, Philip Kaufman and George Lucas, who emerged in the early 1970s with unconventional ideas that challenged contemporary film-making.

François Roland Truffaut ( 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984 ) was an influential filmmaker and film critic, one of the founders of the French New Wave.

Time wrote it had " grown from its place as the most influential fall film festival to the most influential film festival, period.

The film would start a genre of its own called mockumentary and become hugely influential on later similar films, such as This is Spinal Tap and Hard Core Logo.

The Vampyre has been accounted by cultural critic Christopher Frayling as one of the most influential works of fiction ever written and spawned a craze for vampire fiction and theatre ( and latterly film ) which has not ceased to this day.

Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968 included Hawks in the " pantheon " of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.

Universal's horror cycle continued into the 1940s, these included The Wolf Man ( 1941 ), not the first werewolf film, but certainly the most influential, as well as a number of films uniting several of their monsters.

An influential American horror film of this period was George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead ( 1968 ).

In the critically acclaimed and influential 1950s TV series created by Nigel Kneale, Quatermass and the Pit, depictions of supernatural horned entities, with specific reference to prehistoric cave-art and shamanistic horned head-dress are revealed to be a " race-memory " of psychic Martian grasshoppers, manifested at the climax of the film by a fiery horned god.

In Point Blank, an influential film for director John Boorman, he portrayed a hard-nosed criminal bent on revenge.

Before going into film-making, Anderson was a prominent film critic writing for the influential Sequence magazine ( 1947 – 52 ), which he co-founded with Gavin Lambert and Karel Reisz ; later writing for the British Film Institute's journal Sight and Sound and the left-wing political weekly the New Statesman.

His paternal grandfather was Maximilian Steiner ( 1830 – 1880 ), the influential manager of Vienna's Theater an der Wien ; his father was Gabor Steiner ( 1858 – 1944 ), Viennese impresario and carnival and exposition manager, responsible for the Ferris wheel in the Prater that would become the setting for a key scene of the film The Third Man ( 1949 ); his godfather was the composer Richard Strauss.

No Wave was a short-lived but influential underground music, film, performance art, video, and contemporary art scene that had its beginnings during the mid-1970s in New York City.

Milestone was known for his previous anti-war films, including 1930's All Quiet on the Western Front and Shangganling ( The Battle of Sangkumryung Ridge or Triangle Hill ; 1956 ), which was the most influential film on the Chinese in that era.

An influential arena for the great split screen movies of the 1960s were two world's fairs-the 1964 New York World's Fair, where Ray and Charles Eames had a 17-screen film they created for IBM's " Think " Pavilion ( it included sections with race car driving ) and the 3-division film To Be Alive, by Francis Thompson, which won the Academy Award that year for Best Short.

Beside the first three Spaghetti Westerns by Leone, a most influential film was Sergio Corbucci's Django starring Franco Nero.