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.

In later installments Tapp's character would hardly be seen at all but was always referenced to by his spoiled daughter.

If it be accepted, as can hardly be denied, that the answers of the judges to the questions asked by the House of Lords in 1843 are to be read in the light of the then existing case-law and not as novel pronouncements of a legislative character, then the High Court's analysis in Stapleton's Case is compelling.

The title character is Meursault, an Algerian (" a citizen of France domiciled in North Africa, a man of the Mediterranean, an homme du midi yet one who hardly partakes of the traditional Mediterranean culture ") who seemingly irrationally kills an Arab man whom he recognises in French Algiers.

When analyzing " supertrees " ( datasets incorporating as many taxa of a suspected clade as possible ), it may become unavoidable to introduce character definitions that are imprecise, as otherwise the characters might not apply at all to a large number of taxa ; to continue with the " wings " example, the presence of wings would hardly be a useful character if attempting a phylogeny of all Metazoa, as most of these don't have wings at all.

His monologues popularized several catchphrases, notably " Well, I'll be a dirty bird " ( spoken by the Kathy Bates character in the 1990 film Misery ), " You don't hardly get those any more " and " Well then there now " ( spoken by the James Dean character during a brief imitation of Gobel in the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause ).

The early chronicles tend to portray her inauspiciously or hardly at all, while later authors used her good and bad qualities to construct a deeper character who plays a larger role.

He was unimpressed with Mason's performance and the character as written, calling it " hardly ever sympathetic.

She noted that although Ken had many relationships, " he could hardly be described as an early ' Dirty Den '", a character notable for his womanising in the soap opera, EastEnders.

Most characters ' numbers hardly ever dipped below 8, the Go-Bot version of Optimus Prime was the first character to have all values at 10, a trend that would repeat for most " leader " characters.

But it is hardly possible that even resistance to ship money would have so distinguished him but for the mingled massiveness and modesty of his character, his dislike of all pretences in himself or others, his brave contempt of danger, and his charitable readiness to shield others as far as possible from the evil consequences of their actions.

The film enlarges the role of the Duchess of York considerably by combining her character with that of Queen Margaret, as compared with the 1955 Olivier film version of the play, in which the Duchess hardly appeared at all and Queen Margaret was completely eliminated.

The character of Charles Bowen's intellect hardly qualified him for some of the duties of a puisne judge ; but it was otherwise when, in 1882, in succession to Lord Justice Holker, he was raised to the Court of Appeal.

Some classes and super powers ( such as the ancient master class or the invulnerability power ) started very powerful but hardly matured, while other classes and powers had effects strongly tied to character level.

Edith was hardly the sharpest member of the family and could be a tad slow on the uptake, but she was certainly the happiest and wisest character on the show.

Much has been done for education of late, but if the funds were tripled and quadrupled, that would hardly be enough … A new national literature may spring up, impregnated with western ideas, yet retaining its native spirit and character … By encouraging a study of their own ancient literature, as part of their education, a national feeling of pride and self-respect will be reawakened among those who influence the large masses of the people.

Today, one phonetic character is hardly enough to define a proto-language.

The character was hardly used and wasn't able to be developed, and even when talking about it later Wright only remembers wearing robes he purchased from another wrestler to the ring.

The richness of The Portrait is hardly exhausted by a review of Isabel's character.

Essentially the polar opposite of Avery's other famous MGM character, the loud and wacky Screwy Squirrel, Droopy moved slowly and lethargically, spoke in a jowly monotone, and, though hardly an imposing character, was shrewd enough to outwit his enemies and, when finally roused to anger (" You know what?

" Given this presentation, it is hardly surprising that it has been taken to be a retelling of an actual legend ; Gallico writes that " the person and character of the painter are wholly fictional as is the story itself, although I am told that in some quarters the snow goose appearing over Dunkirk has been accepted as legend and I have been compelled to reply to many correspondents that it was sheer invention.

Friedrichshain is a part of Berlin's borough of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, and like Kreuzberg across the river it has its own distinct character, with the result that the new double name is hardly ever used outside government administration.

There is hardly any plot, virtually no character development, and very little description of the setting in the story.