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.

The success of the film would later lead to actual recordings of the fictional band and concert tours plus press interviews, all done in character.

Also due to the great box office success of this film, Toho was convinced to build a franchise around the character of Godzilla and started producing sequels on a yearly basis.

The third edition rules replace specialized matrices with the Action Control Table ( ACT ), a single, color-coded chart that allowed players to determine whether a character action succeeded, and the degree of success, with a single roll.

) For the same reason, a porting of Lotus 1-2-3 to mainframes with 3279 screens did not meet success because its programmers were not able to properly adapt the spreadsheet's user interface to a " screen at a time " rather than " character at a time " device.

The film was a critical success, though some critics wondered about the social impact of a character that they saw as sympathetic.

However, Cotten was the only one of the four to find major success as a lead in Hollywood outside of Citizen Kane ; Moorehead and Collins became successful character film actors.

The enduring success of the series made him synonymous with the Tora-san character, and many Japanese regarded his death as the death of Tora-san, not the death of Yasuo Tadokoro or Kiyoshi Atsumi.

It was the peculiar faculty of Aeneas to accommodate himself perfectly to whatever position he might be called upon to occupy, and he now believed that he could exploit this adaptability to assume the papacy with appropriate success and personal character.

As Walter Juniper wrote, “ Everything, including artistic characterization and consistency of characterization, were sacrificed to humor, and character portrayal remained only where it was necessary for the success of the plot and humor to have a persona who stayed in character, and where the persona by his portrayal contributed to humor .”

Due to his success and character variety, some critics have called him a " virtuoso " actor.

In regards to the 2009 reboot, The Guardian called Urban's performance of McCoy an " unqualified success ", and The New York Times called the character " wild eyed and funny ".

The player then rolls a number of dice equal to their level in the relevant skill, and the number of dice rolled that meet or exceed the target number determines if the character is successful performing the action and the degree of success the character has.

Its success was due largely to its arbitrary character — to the unpredictability of its choice of victims.

The various incarnations of Traveller each have a task system which was used whenever a character encountered a task that required a random resolution to determine success or failure.

Unicode's success at unifying character sets has led to its widespread and predominant use in the internationalization and localization of computer software.

The new series, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, was an almost instant success, and the character, Oswald — drawn and created by Iwerks — became a popular figure.

Aniston's biggest box office success to date was her appearance in 2003's Bruce Almighty, in which she played the live-in girlfriend of Jim Carrey's title character.

In a review for People, Leah Rozen stated " Above all, credit for Philadelphias success belongs to Hanks, who makes sure that he plays a character, not a saint.

The operation was generally considered a tremendous success, and its spectacular character has made it the subject of much continued comment and study.

* Conan the Adventurer ( 1966 ) ( with Robert E. Howard )-first of the paperback printings of the Howard / de Camp " Conan " collaborations, which ensured the success of the character and defined it for a generation

A technique which is having considerable success in recognising difficult words and character groups within documents generally amenable to computer OCR is to submit them automatically to humans in the reCAPTCHA system.

In one sketch on 1 March 1967, Feldman's character harassed a patient shop assistant ( played by Cleese ) for a series of fictitious books, achieving success with Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying.

Despite a contract with MGM to distribute his cartoons, and the introduction of a new character named “ Flip the Frog ”, and later “ Willie Whopper ”, the Iwerks Studio was never a major commercial success and failed to rival either Disney or Fleischer Studios.