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.

Is not the present world crisis a race between things we have created which can now destroy us and between populations of sufficient wisdom and character to forestall the tragedy.

* Austin Powers, fictional character in films, created and portrayed by Mike Myers

Abdul Alhazred is a fictional character created by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.

She presented the character as a bold and eccentric old lady, different from the prim and birdlike character Christie created in her novels.

* Alfie Atkins, known as Alfons Åberg in Swedish, character created by Gunilla Bergström from Sweden

* Alfred Brooks, the main character in The Contender, created by Robert Lipsyte

Because the characters were 8 x 12 pixels this meant that video resolutions of 512 x 192 pixels ( in 64x16 character mode ), or 640 x 300 pixels ( in 80x24 character mode ) were created, which was quite high for the time.

" ( In fact, Fisher's brutish hillbilly character — Big Leviticus, created by Capp in Fisher's absence — bore little resemblance to Li ' l Abner.

She was the only character created at the request of MTV, who wanted a female character who could tolerate and handle the duo.

The Daria character had been created for Beavis and Butt-Head by Glenn Eichler and originally designed by Bill Peckmann of J. J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc. Eichler then became a producer for Daria.

The Bastard Operator From Hell ( BOFH ), a fictional character created by Simon Travaglia, is a rogue system administrator who takes out his anger on users ( often referred to as lusers ), colleagues, bosses, and anyone else who gets in his way.

The style and setting of the game, in a relatively modern time period, created an emphasis on real-life settings, character research, and thinking one's way around trouble.

The character was created by writer Robert E. Howard in 1932 via a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales magazine.

Clark Kent is a fictional character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

Heavy metal band Iced Earth, released their 1996 album The Dark Saga which is based upon the comic book character Spawn, created by Todd McFarlane.

The Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is a fictional character and the main antagonist from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.

Piter De Vries is a fictional character from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.

In the hauntingly re-enacted opening portion of the film concerning the background that McNamara and his pro-nuclear-war adversary U. S. General Curtis LeMay had shared together during World War II, director Morris brought out complexities in the character of McNamara, which the public had not previously recognized, but which largely shaped McNamara's positions regarding both the missiles-in-Cuba issue and the Vietnam War issue, and which therefore created the historical figure that McNamara turned out to be as the U. S. Secretary of Defense.

Other key members of the development team included Bill Trost, who created the history, lore and major characters of Norrath ( including Everquest protagonist Firiona Vie ), Geoffrey " GZ " Zatkin who implemented the spell system, and artist Milo D. Cooper, who did the original character modeling in the game.

Once a character is created, it can only be played on that server unless the character is transferred to a new server by the customer service staff, generally for a fee.

Volstagg, a comic book character that appears as a supporting character in Marvel Comics ' version of Thor, was created as a Falstaff-type character.

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.

He has been seduced by the marvels of the unconscious and has lost interest in studying the surfaces of character.

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.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, a preacher and a college and university president in four Southern states, published the earliest of these backwoods sketches and in the character Ransy Sniffle, in the accounts of sharp horse-trading and eye-gouging physical combat, and in the shockingly unliterary speech of his characters, he set an example followed by many after him.

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.

The charges would be made in The Gazette by an anonymous correspondent, and Pike would be so busy trying to track down the illusive character assassin that he would forget about harassing Woodruff.

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.

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

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.

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.

`` A Toast To The Bride '', sung by Clarence Nordstrom, playing a character called Old Man Toomey, is quite simple, direct and touching.

the most commonly used character encoding on the World Wide Web until December 2007, when it was surpassed by UTF-8.

The parentheses could not correspond to 9 and 0, however, because the place corresponding to 0 was taken by the space character.

Locating the lowercase letters in columns 6 and 7 caused the characters to differ in bit pattern from the upper case by a single bit, which simplified case-insensitive character matching and the construction of keyboards and printers.

* Austin Moon, fictional character in Austin & Ally, portrayed by Ross Lynch

* Animal, nickname of a regular character in Takeshi's Castle, played by Brad Lesley

The main character of Arthur, an animated television series for children produced by WGBH, shown in more than 180 countries, is an aardvark.

* Atlas ( DC Comics ), a fictional character published by DC Comics

Synapomorphies ( a character that is shared by two or more groups through evolutionary development ) include the presence in the plants of oligosaccharide inulin, a nutrient storage molecule used instead of starch ; and unique stamen morphology.

" The character Snake says it was written by Abdul Alhazred and was said to be one of the books used in the creation of the Necronomicon.