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.

Pomham and Soconoco, a couple of minor sachems ( of something less than exalted character ) under Miantonomi, declared that they had never assented to the sale of land to Gorton and had never received anything for it.

Until the last year or so the profession of friendship with the United States had been an article of faith with Trujillo, and altogether too often this profession was accepted here as evidence of his good character.

The figure was so theatrically dressed, that it was as though a character from some other play had blundered into this one.

He respected each of these approach techniques, and kept them in character: his quill drawings had a scratchiness, suggesting skin texture ; ;

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

If the character flying that thing had gone over San Clemente Island yesterday he would have had an eyeful.

His own children had suffered from the weakening of those values which he and Theresa had always taken for granted, and as for his grandchildren ( he had one so far, still in diapers ), he shuddered to think that the true meaning of character might never dawn on them at all.

The " space " character had to come before graphics to make sorting easier, so it became position 20 < sub > hex </ sub >; for the same reason, many special signs commonly used as separators were placed before digits.

With the increase of wealth and power, abbots had lost much of their special religious character, and become great lords, chiefly distinguished from lay lords by celibacy.

According to Suetonius who had cited from Pliny the Elder, Agrippina had borne to Germanicus, a son called Gaius Julius Caesar who had a lovable character.

Agrippina is regarded in ancient and modern historical sources as a Roman Matron with a reputation as a great woman, who had an excellent character and had outstanding Roman morals.

There were the seeds ( spermata ) or miniatures of wheat and flesh and gold in the primitive mixture ; but these parts, of like nature with their wholes ( the homoiomereiai of Aristotle ), had to be eliminated from the complex mass before they could receive a definite name and character.

This video card would also support fast scrolling of high resolution color screens for games, because it had the indirection of the character pointers, so it was possible to quickly scroll the high resolution display, ( or use other effects ) by simply manipulating the 1920 / 1024 bytes of text video instead of the 24. 576 bytes of high resolution video memory.

The hearings were initially completed, with Thomas's good character being presented as a primary qualification for the high court because he had only been a judge for slightly more than one year.

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.

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.

Lloyd is portrayed as tough, but kind hearted and romantic, and the character is popular with viewers.

The poetry, romantic adventures and character of Lord Byron, characterised by his spurned lover Lady Caroline Lamb as ' mad, bad and dangerous to know ' were another inspiration for the Gothic, providing the archetype of the Byronic hero.

Ian Carmichael, who played the part of Wimsey in the BBC Television series adaptation and studied the character and the books thoroughly, said that the character was Sayers ' conception of the ' ideal man ', based in part on her earlier romantic misfortunes.

" In her novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, she also emphasizes the central importance of productive work, romantic love and art to human happiness, and dramatizes the ethical character of their pursuit.

In 2004, Cruz appeared in the Christmas film Noel as Nina, the girlfriend of Paul Walker's character and as Mia in the romantic drama, Head in the Clouds, set in the 1930s.

The reaction of readers to Henry's personality and character as represented in Father and Son has included phrases such as " scientific crackpot ," " bible-soaked romantic ," " a stern and repressive father ," and a " pulpit-thumping Puritan throwback to the seventeenth century.

Burton himself has complained on DVD featurettes about the lack of romantic interests for his character.

The Crying Game is about the experiences of the main character, Fergus ( Stephen Rea ), as a member of the IRA, his brief but meaningful encounter with Jody ( Forest Whitaker ) who is held prisoner by the group, and his unexpected romantic relationship with Jody's girlfriend, Dil ( Jaye Davidson ) whom Fergus promised Jody he would protect.

The acting company would consist of a " leading lady ", a " leading man ", a " juvenile ", both male and female ( ingenue ) for the young often romantic roles, a " character " actor and actress ( for the older parts ) and perhaps a " soubrette ".

John Bowles went on to a successul career in cabaret and in music theatre, playing leads in shows like " Cats ", " A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum ", " Hello Dolly " and the romantic lead character of Raoul in 1, 000 performances of " The Phantom Of The Opera " around the world.

This period also saw the rise of the Norwegian romantic nationalism cultural movement, as Norwegians sought to define and express a distinct national character.

Lorre made nine movies altogether with Sydney Greenstreet counting The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca, most of them variations on the latter film, including Background to Danger ( 1943, with George Raft ); Passage to Marseille ( 1944, reteaming them with Casablanca stars Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains ); The Mask of Dimitrios ( 1944, with character actor Greenstreet receiving top billing ); The Conspirators ( 1944, with Hedy Lamarr and Paul Henreid ); Hollywood Canteen ( 1944 ); Three Strangers ( 1946 ), a suspense film about three people who are joint partners on a winning lottery ticket starring top-billed Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and third-billed Lorre cast against type by director Jean Negulesco as the romantic lead ; and Greenstreet and Lorre's final film together, suspense thriller The Verdict ( 1946 ), director Don Siegel's first movie, with Greenstreet and Lorre finally billed first and second, respectively.

The character had intended to be a brief villain, with Whedon originally adamant to not have another major " romantic vampire " character like Angel-Marsters says " Spike was supposed to be dirty and evil, punk rock, and then dead "-but the character ended up staying for the second season, and then returning in the fourth to replace Cordelia as " the character who told Buffy she was stupid and about to die ".

It tells the story of a French head of state having a romantic liaison with a character called Patricia, Princess of Cardiff.

In the play Sardanapalus by Byron, a character named Myrrha appeared, whom critics interpreted as a symbol of Byron's dream of romantic love.

However, Brand played a very romantic lead in the movie Return from the Sea with Jan Sterling and a heartwarming character who was brain damaged and misunderstood in an episode of the TV show Daniel Boone.

Boyer's role as Pepe Le Moko was already world famous when animator Chuck Jones based the character of Pepe le Pew, the romantic skunk introduced in 1945's Odor-able Kitty, on Boyer and his most well-known performance.

It is rare for the relationship between a character and an opposite-sex sidekick to lack romantic or sexual overtones of any kind — though there are examples, like Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin, and Encyclopedia Brown and Sally Kimball.

His attempt to hide near Sarah Curran, which cost him his life, and his parting letter to her made him into a romantic character, which appealed to the Victorian Era's appetite for Romanticism, which prolonged his fame.

* In James L. Brooks ' 1997 romantic comedy film As Good As It Gets, the main character, obsessive-compulsive misanthrope Melvin Udall, also played by Jack Nicholson, wears brown leather driving gloves in several scenes.

Northern Exposure began with a focus on Joel Fleischman as an audience-identification character for urban " lower 48 " viewers, with storylines revolving around his fish-out-of-water difficulties adjusting to Alaska, and his hot-and-cold romantic involvements with Maggie O ' Connell.

When words can be used in a more fresh and primitive way so that they strike with the force of sights and sounds, when tones of sound and colors of paint and the carven shape all strike the sensibilities with an undeniable force of data in and of themselves, compelling the observer into an attitude of attention, all this imitates the way experience itself in its deepest character strikes upon the door of consciousness and clamors for entrance.

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.

Johnson Jones Hooper, whose character Simon Suggs bears a close kinship to Flem Snopes in both his willingness to take cruel advantage of all and sundry and the sharpness with which he habitually carried out his will ; ;

after all, the large ( and probably unreliable ) Reader's Digest literature on the `` most unforgettable character I ever met '' deals with village grocers, country doctors, favorite if illiterate aunts, and so forth.

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.

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

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

For a dawning sense of illumination occurs in consequence of two events which, as so often in Malraux, suddenly confront a character with the existential question of the nature and value of human life.

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 ''.

While we, as American artists, believe deeply in the universal character of all intellectual activity, we would be less than honest with you, or ourselves, if we failed to state a specific attitude toward our own society as well as the international community as a whole.

In many passages -- for example, the council of boyars -- each section of the chorus becomes a character group with a particular opinion.

and both believed that intellectual growth must go hand in hand with the development of sturdy character and Christian zeal.

He has the temperament and the stage presence for a rousing villain and he sang with character and strong tone.

The strange, delightful little character pieces with their odd and sometimes inexplicable titles are still evocative and gracious.

Her little speech was totally out of character with the sort of person I thought she was.

He was often equated with Celtic gods of similar character.

For general computer use access technology such as screen readers, screen magnifiers and refreshable Braille displays has been widely taken up along with standalone reading aids that integrate a scanner, optical character recognition ( OCR ) software, and speech software in a single machine.

** Tukey's lemma: Every non-empty collection of finite character has a maximal element with respect to inclusion.

* The Narrator: presents himself at the outset of the book as witness to the events and privy to documents, but does not identify himself with any character until the ending of the novel.

When Michael Morton adapted Roger Ackroyd for the stage, he removed the character of Caroline replacing her with a young girl.

More recently Twitter, a popular social network service, began driving abbreviation use with 140 character message limits.