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character and Monck
On 23 April 1666 the admirals joined the fleet, and on 1 June 1666 began the great Four Days Battle, in which Monck showed not only all his old coolness and skill, but also a reckless daring which had seemed hitherto foreign to his character.

character and Mason
** Mason Adams, American character actor ( d. 2005 )
* Maskelyne is a supporting character in Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon.
Hale agreed and when Perry Mason Returns aired in December 1985, her character became the defendant.
Perry Mason is a fictional character, a defense attorney who was the main character in works of detective fiction authored by Erle Stanley Gardner.
Typically, Mason was able to establish his client's innocence by implicating another character, who then confessed.
The character of Perry Mason was portrayed each weekday on a long-running radio series, followed by well-known depictions on film and television, including " television's most successful and longest-running lawyer series " from 1957 to 1966 starring Raymond Burr ; another series in 1973 – 1974, starring Monte Markham and Brett Somers ; and 30 made-for-TV movies filmed from 1985 to 1993.
Other than what we learn of his character from the novels themselves, we know very little about Perry Mason.
The 1930s films were not closely based on the character of Perry Mason as revealed in the books, and contain plot and character developments which are not accepted as canonical in the remainder of the books and adaptations.
* Granny Get Your Gun ( 1940 ), extremely loosely based on The Case of the Dangerous Dowager ( 1937 ) and not containing Perry Mason or any similar character.
The Perry Mason character has appeared in comic books and a short-lived ( October 16, 1950 – June 21, 1952 ) comic strip.
Narayan Sanyal, a famous Bengali author, has created P. K. Basu, a detective character, being inspired from Mason.
* Perry Mason: The title character played by Raymond Burr in Perry Mason and the first twenty-six TV Movies listed below.
The 1995 Ozzy Osbourne album Ozzmosis features a song entitled " Perry Mason ", whose lyrics allude to the character.
In the 1985 film adaptation of the board game Clue, the character of Miss Scarlet cites Perry Mason to highlight Wadsworth's ( played by Tim Curry ) crime-solving capabilities.
Mason " The Line " Dixon is a leading character in Rocky Balboa, the sixth and final film in the Rocky franchise, directed by and starring Sylvester Stallone.
Piru was also used in the scene in A Star Is Born ( 1954 ) starring Judy Garland and James Mason where Jack Carson's character, Libby, finds them after they are married.
In the highly successful Perry Mason series of made-for-TV movies, starting in 1985, the Paul Drake character was part of the back-story: his son Paul Jr. served as Mason's private investigator in the early films.
This character evolved from the earlier Perry Mason character on radio.
* In the television series Dead Like Me, the character Mason, played by Callum Blue, died in 1966 by drilling a hole in his head to achieve " the permanent high.

character and was
Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.
He was the lawman who survived more gunfights than any other famous gun-slinging character in the book.
After the collapse of that desperate and ill-fated campaign the character of the king degenerated for a time into a futility that was not merely pitiable but often ridiculous.
Some people thought he lacked both ability and character, but most agreed that he was noble in appearance and, for a Russian, humane.
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 ''.
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.
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 audience was fond of Harry Hawk, he was a dear, in or out of character, but he was not particularly funny.
The figure was so theatrically dressed, that it was as though a character from some other play had blundered into this one.
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 ''.
Of more importance to the West than Poland's boundaries was the character of her government.
Following Day was Woodbury who spoke of his disapproval of Brown's attempt at servile insurrection, his admiration of Brown's character, and his opposition to slavery.
What was lacking was a real sense of phrase, the kind of legato singing that would have added a dimension of smoothness to what is, after all, a very oily character.
The new `` School For Wives '' was interpreted according to a principle that is becoming increasingly common in the playing of classic comedy -- the idea of turning some obviously ludicrous figure into a tragic character.
At the other extreme in character was the half-hour excerpt from the Petipa-Minkus ballet `` Bayaderka '', which opened the evening.
A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.
Susan was an active character ; ;
It was the kind of thing that could ruin a man's life, and it was a tribute to John's strength of character and very real business ability that it hadn't ruined his.

character and real
Similarly, a character can find any possible universe, but they can spend character points to know of or inhabit shadows which are ( in some sense ) " real " and therefore useful.
Shakespeare may have changed this aspect of his character in order to please King James, who was thought at the time to be a descendant of the real Banquo.
Even in cases of real crimes, the positive laws frequently punish only the particular offence, while in public opinion the offender, even after he has undergone punishment, is still incapacitated for certain honours and distinctions which are granted only to persons of unblemished character.
He did not care about the abstract life of the race, but the incidents of individual character, the fortunes of a particular family, the relations of real and concrete motives in this or that special case.
* " Doc " is a common nickname for someone with a doctoral degree, in real life and in fiction — for example, the gunfighter Doc Holliday, the character " Doc " in Gunsmoke, and pulp hero Doc Savage
He is fired by the network in the first episode of series 2, although he is never shown on screen in that episode ; the real reason for this is that Lawrence died of lung cancer between the filming of series 1 and series 2, forcing the writers to create a new executive producer character, Sam ( see below ).
The 1983 Woody Allen film Zelig was an elaborate mix of real newsreel footage from the 1930s and fake footage mixed together with fake interviews with real actors playing themselves as well as actors playing roles to tell the story of the Allen character and presented as a documentary.
The 1994 Tom Hanks film Forrest Gump while not presented as a documentary of a real character, does contain several sequences that feature the Hanks character inserted into archival newsreel footage of John Kennedy, Gerald Ford, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, The Apollo 11 astronauts, and others, to realistic effect.
There was also a promotional campaign with magazine ads and posters which implied that the character was real.
He did paint the old character mustache over his real one on a few rare performing occasions, including a TV sketch with Jackie Gleason on the latter's variety show in the 1960s ( in which they performed a variation on the song " Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean ," co-written by Marx's uncle Al Shean ) and the 1968 Otto Preminger film Skidoo.
* JK Rowling Interview with Daniel Radcliffe cites George Eliot's real name as inspiration for character Lily Evans's name.
His character on Galaxy Quest had been a Wunderkind pilot, but the real-life Tommy has much more difficulty piloting a real starship and only masters the controls after watching video of his work as a child.
" The teetotaling Hepburn, in and out of character, fared worse in the difficult conditions, losing weight, and at one time, getting very ill. Bogart resisted Huston's insistence on using real leeches in a key scene where Bogart has to drag the boat through a shallow marsh, until reasonable fakes were employed.
The small parcel of land made a tall tower necessary, and Pei had usually shied away from such projects ; in Hong Kong especially, the skyscrapers lacked any real architectural character.
The players pursue goals within a fictional setting represented by the real world, while interacting with each other in character.
Jean showed how the unwavering trust of Jef, the faithful Pierrot prototype, transforms his scandalously adulterous wife into his idealized image of her, while Domino presented another unfaithful wife who pays a gigolo to make a pretense of courting her so as to distract her husband from her real lover, but the gigolo manages to act his character with such pretend sincerity that she winds up falling in love with this fictional persona.
A player character may sometimes be based on a real person, especially in sports games that use the names and likenesses of real sports people.
Curiously, in the case of Civilization, a player's chosen historical character is the same throughout the course of the game despite the fact that a campaign can last several hundred years before and after the lifetime of the real historical persona.
In such games, the only real indication that the player has a character ( instead of an omnipresent status ), is from the cutscenes during which the character is being given a mission briefing or debriefing ; the player is usually addressed as " general ", " commander ", or another military rank.

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