Most notably, Ajax is not wounded in any of the battles described in the Iliad, and he is the only principal character on either side who does not receive personal assistance from any of the gods who take part in the battles.

They were furthered by American Spectator writer David Brock in his 1993 book The Real Anita Hill, though he later recanted the claims he had made, described his book as " character assassination ", and apologized to Hill.

" While Frank Miller has described the relationship between Batman and the Joker as a " homophobic nightmare ," he views the character as sublimating his sexual urges into crimefighting, concluding, " He'd be much healthier if he were gay.

Why Shakespeare's Banquo is so different from the character described by Holinshed and Boece is not known, though critics have proposed several possible explanations.

Other terms such as character set, character map, and code page are used almost interchangeably, but these terms have related but distinct meanings described below.

* The game Eternal Champions game character Trident is described as a master of Capoeira.

Because of the orbital character, the potential for developing stereoisomeric products upon cycloaddition is limited, as described by the Woodward-Hoffmann rules.

The ideal quality of the original Somerset Cheddar was described by Joseph Harding in 1864 as " close and firm in texture, yet mellow in character or quality ; it is rich with a tendency to melt in the mouth, the flavour full and fine, approaching to that of a hazelnut ".

Costume may also refer to the artistic arrangement of accessories in a picture, statue, poem, or play, appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described, or to a particular style of clothing worn to portray the wearer as a character or type of character other than their regular persona at a social event such as a masquerade, a fancy dress party or in an artistic theatrical performance.

The carbides of silicon and boron are described as " covalent carbides ", although virtually all compounds of carbon exhibit some covalent character.

Before the game begins, each player creates his or her player character and records the details ( described below ) on a character sheet.

He described the Cold War: " We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method ..." and warned about what he saw as unjustified government spending proposals and continued with a warning that " we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military – industrial complex.

The character Miss Marple, for instance, dealt with an estimated two murders a year ; De Andrea has described Marple's home town, the quiet little village of St. Mary Mead as having " put on a pageant of human depravity rivaled only by that of Sodom and Gomorrah ".

In the Encyclopedia of a Myriad of Treasures, Zhang Pu ( 1602 – 1641 ) described the game of laying out dominoes as pupai, although the character for pu had changed, yet retained the same pronunciation.

Rather, evil spirits described in various faiths ' traditions, such as Satan, fallen angels, demons, and jinns, are metaphors for the base character traits a human being may acquire and manifest when he turns away from God and follows his lower nature.

Diana Soren, the main character in Carlos Fuentes ' novel Diana o la cazadora soltera ( Diana, or The Lone Huntress ), is described as having the same personality as the goddess.

Being the only anime character selected, Doraemon was described as " The Cuddliest Hero in Asia ".

His wife Sylvia described the Kaplan character: He doesn't have any first name.

It has been described as " a language lexically predominantly Romance, morphologically intensively agglutinative, and to a certain degree isolating in character ".

At the time, Russell described his character as " a mercenary, and his style of fighting is a combination of Bruce Lee, The Exterminator, and Darth Vader, with Eastwood's vocal-ness.

" Following the Villanova-Carlisle game, The New York Times described the new passing game this way :" The passing was more of the character of that familiar in basket ball than that which has hitherto characterized football.

In Act II, Scene III of Henry V, his death is described by the character " Hostess ", possibly the Mistress Quickly of Henry IV, who describes his body in terms that parody Plato's description of the death of Socrates.

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.

He has been seduced by the marvels of the unconscious and has lost interest in studying the surfaces of character.

A useful comment on his relation to his region may be made, I think, by noting briefly how in handling Southern materials and Southern problems he has deviated from the pattern set by other Southern authors while remaining faithful to the essential character of the region.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, a preacher and a college and university president in four Southern states, published the earliest of these backwoods sketches and in the character Ransy Sniffle, in the accounts of sharp horse-trading and eye-gouging physical combat, and in the shockingly unliterary speech of his characters, he set an example followed by many after him.

Wright set his loss at $200,000, a figure perhaps justified by the unique character of the house that had been ruined, and the faultless taste that had gone into the selection of the prints and other things that were destroyed.

The charges would be made in The Gazette by an anonymous correspondent, and Pike would be so busy trying to track down the illusive character assassin that he would forget about harassing Woodruff.

Pike was stunned by the first blast against his character, which was published in the March 4th issue of The Gazette under the name `` Vale ''.

Amadee may have owed this partly to his relationship with the king, but Othon, who at sixty seems still to have been a simple knight, merited his position solely by his own character and ability.

Viola had been urged to attend, by telephone, and not knowing the host or the character of the party, she had gone.

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.

Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.

`` A Toast To The Bride '', sung by Clarence Nordstrom, playing a character called Old Man Toomey, is quite simple, direct and touching.

the most commonly used character encoding on the World Wide Web until December 2007, when it was surpassed by UTF-8.

The parentheses could not correspond to 9 and 0, however, because the place corresponding to 0 was taken by the space character.

Locating the lowercase letters in columns 6 and 7 caused the characters to differ in bit pattern from the upper case by a single bit, which simplified case-insensitive character matching and the construction of keyboards and printers.

* Austin Moon, fictional character in Austin & Ally, portrayed by Ross Lynch

* Austin Powers, fictional character in films, created and portrayed by Mike Myers

* Animal, nickname of a regular character in Takeshi's Castle, played by Brad Lesley

The main character of Arthur, an animated television series for children produced by WGBH, shown in more than 180 countries, is an aardvark.

* Atlas ( DC Comics ), a fictional character published by DC Comics

Synapomorphies ( a character that is shared by two or more groups through evolutionary development ) include the presence in the plants of oligosaccharide inulin, a nutrient storage molecule used instead of starch ; and unique stamen morphology.

Abdul Alhazred is a fictional character created by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.

" The character Snake says it was written by Abdul Alhazred and was said to be one of the books used in the creation of the Necronomicon.