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.

As with other action films, martial arts films are dominated by action to varying degrees ; many martial arts films have only a minimal plot and amount of character development and focus almost exclusively on the action, while other martial arts films have more creative and complex plots and characters along with action scenes.

Gameplay for the Project Zoo involve players exclusively controlling Gromit, as Wallace functions as a helper non-player character, but in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, gameplay shifts between the two, and even includes two-player cooperative play.

Rand's creating of the negative fictional character of Peter Keating required her to draw exclusively upon the negative aspects of Hood's career as she perceived it.

Also, negative numbers should be specified with the '-' character exclusively.

The architectural character of the town owes much to the fact that it is constructed almost exclusively of the beautiful, but also fragile Tuffeau stone.

In the Mabinogion, the character is referred to virtually exclusively as " Bendigeituran "; that is, with the epithet " Bendigeit " ( blessed or praiseworthy ) attached.

Woody's original voice actor, Mel Blanc, would stop performing the character after the first four cartoons to work exclusively for Leon Schlesinger Productions ( Later renamed Warner Bros. Cartoons ), producer of Warner Bros .' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.

Katey Sagal voices exclusively Leela, and is the only member of the main cast to voice only one character.

The latter types of EM radiation in normal experience show far-field behavior almost exclusively, due to their shorter wavelength that gives them a " far-field " character at all but extremely short distances from their sources.

Square dance clubs are primarily, but not exclusively, local in character.

Many scholars find much unfinished about this play including unexplained plot developments, characters who appear unexplained and say little, prose sections that a polished version would have in verse ( although close analysis would show this to be almost exclusively in the lines of Apemantus, and probably an intentional character trait ), and the two epitaphs, one of which doubtless would have been cancelled in the final version.

After the war, Adam Stegerwald, leader of the Christian trade unions, made another attempt at transcending the party's exclusively Catholic character and uniting Germany's fragmented party spectrum.

Steig performs the role of " The Pied Pipe ," exclusively on flute, in the film Shrek Forever After, based on the character created by his father.

In any case, Zachariadis himself referred in his public statements after liberation almost exclusively to his first letter as proof of the patriotic character of KKE and its role as an inspiration to the Greek resistance movement during the war.

Various Allium species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera including cabbage moth, common swift moth ( recorded on garlic ), garden dart moth, large yellow underwing moth, nutmeg moth, setaceous Hebrew character moth, turnip moth and Schinia rosea, a moth that feeds exclusively on Allium species.

In fact, the character, which originally meant ' field ' in general, is used in Japan exclusively to convey the meaning ' rice paddy field '.

His character existed from the earliest stages of development, as originally, Nomura thought that the game's plot would deal exclusively with Cloud Strife pursuing Sephiroth, who was always the game's main antagonist.

Season two switched exclusively to a sequence of dance moves by the title character, this time on film and in front of a pastel blue / pink background.

After his introduction in Batman: Year One, the character appeared almost exclusively in comics set during the Year One era, and went virtually unmentioned in present day.

are kanji character readings ( pronunciations ) found almost exclusively in Japanese names.

He initially played exclusively in comedy roles, but portrayed a character in his first drama film in The Big House ( 1930 ).

Most of his science fiction books are short, present-tense narratives concerned exclusively with the consciousness of a single obsessive character.

In fact, for a period of time in the 1960s, Wonder Woman lost her powers and functioned exclusively as a non-powered Diana Prince who nonetheless experienced high adventure as a Modesty Blaise-type character.

* In the television series Longmire, the series ' main character Sheriff Walt Longmire exclusively drinks Rainier beer, and can be seen drinking it throughout the series.