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.

Presenting an individualized Negro character, it would seem, is one of the most difficult assignments a Southern writer could tackle ; ;

By this same combination of the will and the imagination, each one of us can learn to portray permanently the kind of character we would like to be.

No one seriously contends, of course, that the domineering wife is, sexually speaking, a new character in our world.

Her services to the School for many years were of a very high character, and I have often thought that one of the buildings should be named for her ''.

Big Band Percussion ( SP-44002 ) seemed one of the least attractive discs -- the arrangements just didn't have so much character as the others.

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.

" 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.

Thus, according to the character Pausanias in Plato's Symposium, Aphrodite is two goddesses, one older while the other younger.

Unlike conventional auctions, bids are non-refundable ; if one player bids 65 for psyche and another wins with a bid of 66, then the character with 66 is " superior " to the character with 65 even though there is only one bid difference.

Aeneas is also a titular character in Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas ( c. 1688 ), and one of the principal roles in Hector Berlioz ' opera Les Troyens ( c. 1857 ).

The second one has no obvious simple description ( using the same character set ) other than writing down the string itself, which has 64 characters.

The will has greatly puzzled historians, who have read it as a bizarre gesture of extreme piety uncharacteristic of Alfonso's character, one that effectively undid his life's work.

In Valerio Massimo Manfredi's The Last Legion, Aurelianus ( here called " Aurelianus Ambrosius Ventidius ") is a major character and is shown as one of the last loyal Romans, going to enormous lengths for his boy emperor Romulus Augustus, whose power has been wrested by the barbarian Odoacer.

* Titus Andronicus, main character in the play of the same name by William Shakespeare, possibly named after one of the above-listed emperors

The main character, Père Heb, was a blunderer with a huge belly ; three teeth ( one of stone, one of iron, and one of wood ); a single, retractable ear ; and a misshapen body.

* No sound support aside from a command that could be used to click the speaker, though one could also an ASCII bell character to sound the system alert beep.

Based on a newer, slightly more flexible, version of the Asters original Motorola MC6845 video chip, the Rockwell 6545, it worked by adding a new video mode, one with the ability to reprogram an extended, ( 2048 characters instead of 256 characters ) version of the character set, supported by an extended character memory of the video card that did not use one ( 8 bit ) byte per character, but an 11 bit " word ", so it could address each one of the available 2048 unique programmable characters.

If the character encoding for a web page is chosen appropriately then HTML character references are usually only required for a markup delimiting characters mentioned above, and for a few special characters ( or not at all if a native Unicode encoding like UTF-8 is used ).

Before the 1980s, Chinese publishers hired teams of workers and selected a few thousand type pieces from an enormous Chinese character set.

Quite a few of the names mean " five-six " in different languages, including both the robot Fisi ( fi-si ), the dead Lady Panc Ashash ( in Sanskrit " pañcha " is " five " and " ṣaṣ " is " six "), Limaono ( lima-ono, both in Hawaiian and / or Fijian ), Englok ( ng < sup > 5 </ sup >- luk < sup > 6 </ sup > < nowiki >- wikt: 六 # Cantonese | 六 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, in Cantonese ), Goroke ( go-roku < nowiki >- wikt: 六 # Japanese | 六 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, Japanese ) and Femtiosex (" fifty-six " in Swedish ) in " The Dead Lady of Clown Town " as well as the main character in " Think Blue, Count Two ", Veesey-koosey, which is an English transcription of the Finnish words " viisi " ( five ) and " kuusi " ( six ).

Temple Bar and Grafton Street are two of the few remaining areas that were not affected by the wave of Georgian reconstruction and maintained their medieval character.

Their literary character is not quite clear ; while most of them are adapted for public delivery, not a few bear the character of ecclesiastical pronouncements.

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.

* A character ( Drysdale ) in the Morse TV film based on Colin Dexter's novel, " The Last Enemy ," quotes the first few lines of the poem to which Morse adds a few more lines ( not wholly accurately ).

Plot is still used to develop character and setting, but most of the time, the ultimate goal is to show scenes of sexuality with few exceptions.

It has been hailed as one of the few films made by a Caucasian that presents an authentic Native American culture and character, and Jarmusch stands by it as such, though it has attracted both praise and castigation for its portrayal of the American West, violence, and especially Native Americans.

With the 2005 Emmy Win, Spader became one of the few actors ( along with co-star William Shatner as Denny Crane ) to win an Emmy award while playing the same character in two different series.

There have been few attempts to define the nature and character of Arthur in the pre-Galfridian tradition as a whole, rather than in a single text or text / story-type.

Once you submit your email, you must wait a few days before you receive a randomized character name and password.

" Although Lex only appeared a few times after the first season, he is mentioned a great deal throughout the rest of the seasons which reveals him as still a very important character.

Occasionally, when catering at the customers ’ homes, foodservice establishments of this category would only provide the few specialty dishes they are famous for, just like foodservice establishments with names ending with the Chinese character lou.

Just like foodservice establishments with names ending with the Chinese character ju, when catering at the customers ’ homes, foodservice establishments of this category would also only provide the few specialty dishes they are famous for, but they would mostly bring the already cooked dishes to the location, and would only cook on locations occasionally.

Aniket Joshi has praised her as he wrote " Madhuri Dixit, the only female character in the film, has a small role as Paro ( Karan ´ s love interest and Prakash ´ s sister ) yet still does well in the few scenes she has.

The syllabary systems of Japanese ( hiragana and katakana ) are examples of almost perfectly shallow orthographies – the kana correspond with almost perfect consistency to the spoken syllables, although with a few exceptions where symbols reflect historical or morphophonemic features: notably the use of ぢ di and づ du ( rather than じ ji and ず zu, their pronunciation in standard Tokyo dialect ) when the character is a voicing of an underlying ち or つ ( see rendaku ), and the use of は, を, and へ to represent the sounds わ, お, and え, as relics of historical kana usage.

Desdemona is the only named character in Cinthio's tale, with his few other characters identified only as " the Moor " ( Othello ), " the squadron leader " ( Cassio ), " the ensign " ( Iago ), and " the ensign's wife " ( Emilia ).

In other instances, Plautus will give a name to a character that only has a few words or lines.

* Roger was also featured as a character in The Beano Interactive DVD which consisted of mini-games and a few short animations.

In addition, a few story and character elements that were introduced in the animated series were incorporated into subsequent live-action productions: