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.

In the story, Professor Laban Shrewsbury ( a recurring Derleth character ) and his assistant at the time, Nayland Colum, discover Alhazred's burial site.

He had a recurring role as " Bill Church Jr ." based upon the character of Moxie Mannheim's son ( Bruno Mannheim ) from the Superman comics on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

He is also known for his supporting role as the recurring character Autolycus (" the King of Thieves ") on both Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, which reunited him with producer Rob Tapert.

Frasier Crane starts as a recurring character but then becomes a permanent character.

Lilith Sternin starts as a one-time character in the Season 4 episode, " Second Time Around " ( 1985 ), but then she becomes a recurring character since Season 5 ( 1986 – 87 ), although she is a permanent character for Seasons 10 and 11 ( 1991 – 93 ).

In an episode of the Disney Channel show Shake It Up, based in Chicago, recurring character Dina Garcia ( Ainsley Bailey ) sold scalped Chicago Bears tickets.

The Metal Gear Solid series of video games has a recurring character known as Grey Fox or the " Cyborg Ninja " who is a person wearing a cybernetic exoskeleton ( either worn as a suit or grafted directly to the character's body ) and wielding a high-frequency blade.

Recurring characters on SNL played by Guest include Frankie, of Willie and Frankie ( coworkers who recount in detail physically painful situations in which they have found themselves, remarking laconically " I hate when that happens "); Herb Minkman, a shady novelty toymaker with a brother named Al ( played by Crystal ); Rajeev Vindaloo, an eccentric foreign man in the same vein as Andy Kaufman's Latka character from Taxi ; and Senor Cosa, a Spanish ventriloquist often seen on the recurring spoof of The Joe Franklin Show.

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Additionally, Charlie Higson wrote a series on a young James Bond and Kate Westbrook wrote three novels based on the diaries of a recurring series character, Moneypenny.

These negative qualities provided extensive material for fiction writers in the Victorian era, and John remains a recurring character within Western popular culture, primarily as a villain in films and stories depicting the Robin Hood legends.

Pit was a recurring character in the American animated television series Captain N: The Game Master, and made cameo appearances in Nintendo games such as Tetris, F-1 Race and Super Smash Bros. Melee.

She also played the recurring character Jackie Robbins on ER.

* In the 2D fighting game series BlazBlue, a recurring character named Lambda-11 appears in the various games ' story modes and as a playable character.

The most controversial cuts were the scenes involving Otto, initially a recurring character, who had a thin Adolf Hitler-esque moustache and spoke with a German accent, shouting accusations of " racial impurity " at people whose conceptions were similar to Brian's ( Roman centurion rape of native Judean women ), and other Nazi-based phrases.

This is a recurring sketch always predicated on an unrelated sketch in which one character expresses irritation at being questioned by another, retorting exasperatedly, " I didn't expect this kind of Spanish Inquisition!

Tinkle, an Indian comic book for children, has Nasruddin Hodja as a recurring character.

* In F. Paul Wilson's 2009 Repairman Jack novel Ground Zero, the recurring character of The Lady is revealed to be a manifestation of the Noosphere whose function is that of a " beacon " which informs a higher intelligence (" the Ally ") that sentient life exists in the area where she appears.

* Nemesis ( Xena and Hercules ), a recurring character in the television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

For example: an apparition of John Wayne is a recurring character and serves as a sort of spiritual guide or conscience for Custer ; Monument Valley and The Alamo serve as backdrops to various legs of the journey ; for a time, Jesse acts as the sheriff of a small town in Texas, and must protect the inhabitants from harm ; the image of the Saint of Killers, a reformed bounty hunter-turned-killer-once-more in the tradition of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven character, William Munny, is a nod to the classic Western notion of nemesis, straight and true and terrible.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This, of course, depends on the character of the site itself, the previous experience of the investigator, and the number of factors needed to arrive at a good decision.

An imaginative storyteller, Pimen takes on the character he describes, as if he were experiencing the old shepherd's blindness and miraculous cure.

Is it not the obligation of us older citizens to lend our weight to being creative on the character side and to hasten our own maturing process??

Those who lived in that desolation of rocky deformity took on some of the moraine's stony character.

More than a beautiful visualization of the illustrious adventures and escapades of the tragi-comic knight-errant and his squire, Sancho Panza, in seventeenth-century Spain, this inevitably abbreviated rendering of the classic satire on chivalry is an affectingly warm and human exposition of character.

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.

A study on the relationship happiness to various character strengths showed that “ a conscious focus on gratitude led to reductions in negative affect and increases in optimistic appraisals, positive affect, offering emotional support, sleep quality, and well-being .”

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The defense counsel will then make a " plea in mitigation " ( also called " submissions on penalty ") wherein he or she will attempt to mitigate the relative seriousness of the offense and heavily refer to and rely upon the defendant's previous good character and good works ( if any ).

Christie has also been parodied on screen, such as in the film Murder by Indecision, which featured the character " Agatha Crispy ".

For his part Conan Doyle acknowledged basing his detective stories on the model of Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin, and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character Sherlock Holmes on Joseph Bell, who in his use of " ratiocination " prefigured Poirot's reliance on his " little grey cells ".

The character of Miss Marple is based on Christie's grandmother and her cronies, but there is no definitive source for the derivation of the name ' Marple '.

The character of Jessica Fletcher is thought to be based on a combination of Miss Marple, Agatha Christie herself, and another Christie character, Ariadne Oliver, who often appears in the Hercule Poirot mysteries.

All else being equal, a character with a higher rank in an attribute will always win a contest based on that attribute.