Presenting an individualized Negro character, it would seem, is one of the most difficult assignments a Southern writer could tackle ; ;

But Aristotle kept the principle of levels and even augmented it by describing in the Poetics what kinds of character and action must be imitated if the play is to be a vehicle of serious and important human truths.

For both Plato and Aristotle artistic mimesis, in contrast to the power of dialectic, is relatively incapable of expressing the character of fundamental reality.

Experience is not seen, as it is in classical rationalism, as presenting us initially with clear and distinct objects simply located in space and registering their character, movements, and changes on the tabula rasa of an uninvolved intellect.

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

The Agreeable Autocracies is an attempt to explore some of the institutions which both reflect and determine the character of the free society today.

This is what necessitates the nonsystematic character of his astronomy.

One who invites such trials of character is either foolhardy, overconfident or too simple and childlike in faith in mankind to see the danger.

Trevelyan is militantly sure of the superiority of English institutions and character over those of other peoples.

I have said before how difficult it is to make any precise statements with regard to the character of the Greek and Elizabethan public.

Truly, that Liberals should choose Louis 14, as a bogey-symbol of conservatism is grotesquely ironic, considering the Louis 14, character of their Grand Monarque, FDR: not only in his accretion of absolute power and personal deification, ( le roi gouverne par lui meme ), but in the disastrous effects of his spending and war policies.

I have observed that being up on a horse changes the whole character of a man, and when a very small man is up on a saddle, he'd like as not prefer to eat his meals there.

For what Sam Rayburn's life in this House teaches us is that loyalty and character are not divisive and there is no such thing as being for your country and neglecting your district.

The sentimental pure heart of Galahad is gone with the knightly years, but I still believe in the heart of the George Meredith character that was not made of the stuff that breaks ''.

The theory behind this is, of course, fundamentalist in character.

The theory claims to show by analysis that when we say, `` That is good '', we do not mean to assert a character of the subject of which we are thinking.

The moments of sung melody, in the usual sense, come most often when the character is actually supposed to be singing, as in folk songs and liturgical chants.

A quiet but sturdy theme, somewhat folklike in character, appears whenever the old monk speaks of the history he is recording or of his own past life:

The most unusual feature of Boris, however, is the use of the greatest character of all, the chorus.

He knew instinctively that next to voice and face an actor's hands are his most useful possession -- that in fiction as in the theatre, gesture is an indispensable shorthand for individualizing character and dramatizing action and response.

No one seriously contends, of course, that the domineering wife is, sexually speaking, a new character in our world.

The Analects stress the importance of ritual, but also the importance of ' ren ', which loosely translates as ' human-heartedness, Confucianism, along with Legalism, is responsible for creating the world ’ s first meritocracy, which holds that one's status should be determined by education and character rather than ancestry, wealth, or friendship.

They worked with the character again in 1967 though, when they helped Rankin / Bass co produce their film King Kong Escapes ( which was loosely based on a cartoon series R / B had produced ).

The film is heavily based around the main character ( Paul ) and the theme surrounding him is loosely based around the myth of Narcissus, as all who look at Paul are transfixed by his beauty-just as all those who gazed upon Narcissus were transifixed with his beauty.

* Dominic Allen's stage play Odyssey loosely adapts the story into a post-apocalyptic setting, basing the Odysseus character on Ezra Pound.

However the character is rather loosely based on the real person, and as such the Pope is shown in rather negative light, impersonating hipocrisy, intolerance and blind lust for power.

The character was also featured in the 1993 film The Fugitive, based loosely on the original series, starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones as a United States marshal in pursuit of him.

The fictional character Dr. Zachary Walzer in the 2010 independent VODO series Pioneer One is loosely based on Zubrin.

The event is also loosely depicted in the 1995 animated film Balto, as the name of Gunnar Kaasen's lead dog in his sled team was Balto, although unlike the real dog, Balto the character was portrayed as half wolf in the film.

He is loosely categorized as one of the zanni or servant characters though he often was portrayed as a member of the middle class such as a tavern owner: his character could be adapted to whatever the needs to the scenario might be, just as Brighella himself is adaptable to any circumstance.

The 1997 film Dante's Peak, which was loosely based on the eruption of Mount St. Helens, features a character called Ruth, an elderly woman who lives in a cabin on the mountain and is reluctant to leave, also claiming " the mountain isn't going to hurt me.

In 1997, she won her third Golden Globe award for CBS ' Cybill ( 1995 – 1998 ), a television sitcom, in which the title character — Cybill Sheridan, an actress struggling with hammy parts in B movies and bad soaps — was loosely modeled on herself ( including portrayals of her two ex-husbands ).

The character is loosely based on László Almásy, who was actually homosexual, a well-known desert explorer in 1930s Egypt and who helped the German side in World War II.

William Jennings Bryan said this is roughly the view espoused by Matthew Harrison Brady, a character in the 1955 play Inherit the Wind loosely based upon William Jennings Bryan.

* Caesar ( Xena ), a character in Xena: Warrior Princess loosely based on Julius Caesar

The character of Bishop Archer is loosely based on the controversial, iconoclastic Episcopal Bishop James Pike, who in 1969 died of exposure while exploring the Judean Desert near the Dead Sea in the West Bank.

* Nut ( Marvel Comics ), a fictional character appearing in the Marvel Comics universe, based loosely on Nut, the Egyptian goddess of the sky

* Hotel Babylon S3E7 features a character ( Dan Black ) loosely based on David Blaine, who performs the illusion in the lift ; later one of the main characters ( Anna ) shows the other hotel staff ( but not the viewer ) how the illusion is performed.

* The character Mull Pasha that is played by Dr. J. W. Müller is loosely based on the real life European military leader who served on one Middle country: John Bagot Glubb also known as " Glubb Pasha " who led the Arab Legion in Jordan.

The character is loosely inspired by General Makabe Rokurōta, a character from The Hidden Fortress played by Toshirō Mifune, whom series creator George Lucas also considered casting as Obi-Wan.

The band is loosely modelled on Pink Floyd or Fleetwood Mac although Banks has said, in a newspaper piece, that the character Weird was in part modeled on Fish, the ex-Marillion singer and lyricist.

The Pokémon character Dewgong is very loosely based on the dugong, with fictional adaptations including a horn on its head for breaking through sea ice .< ref >

The character Earl Williams is loosely based on " Terrible " Tommy O ' Connor.

The character is loosely based on Banastre Tarleton.