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.

On 15 December 2011 the Spelthorne Borough Council voted 25-4, with 6 abstentions ( including all of those from Staines ward itself ), to change the name of the town to Staines-upon-Thames with the aim of promoting its riverside location so boosting the local economy and, reportedly, to attempt to discourage association with the fictional character Ali G.

He was named the greatest fictional character " of the last 20 years " in 2010 by Entertainment Weekly, was ranked the second greatest cartoon character by TV Guide, behind Bugs Bunny, and was voted the greatest television character of all time by Channel 4 viewers.

In addition, he was voted the tenth favorite Simpsons character by readers of Simpsons Comics in the United Kingdom in 2010.

In a poll conducted in 2008, Yoshi was voted as the third-favorite video game character in Japan, with Cloud Strife and Mario placing second and first, respectively.

In a poll conducted by the Official Nintendo Magazine, Princess Peach was voted by readers as the second greatest female character ; the magazine stated that " some might view her as being a bit useless but we'll let her off as rescuing her is always so much fun ".

The character was voted the 84th top Star Wars character by IGN.

In a Mother's Day article Molly was also voted the third greatest celebrity mum by The Flowers and Plants association who see the character as " formidable, practical, creative and resourceful ".

In a 2008 Oricon poll Pikachu was voted as the fourth most popular video game character in Japan, tying with Solid Snake.

In February 2010, Famitsu readers voted Cloud as the third best video game character of all time.

In the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition of 2011, he was voted as the fifth best video game character.

In an Oricon poll in 2008, Cloud was voted as the second most popular video game character.

In an ASCII Media Works poll in which fans voted which video game or manga character they would like to name their children after, Cloud's name was third in the male category.

Following a visit to Germany in 1936, Lindbergh wrote: " While I still have my reservations, I have come away with great admiration for the German people ... Hitler must have far more vision and character than I thought … With all the things we criticize he is undoubtedly a great man …" Although America First avoided any appearance of antisemitism and voted to drop Henry Ford as a member for this reason, Ford continued his good friendship with Lindbergh, who visited him in the summer of 1941.

In the 1988 and 1989 Nintendo Power Awards, readers voted him as the best character.

In the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition from 2011, Link was voted as the second best video game character of all time.

Furthermore, in a 2007 poll by Oricon, Zoro was voted as the 4th most desired character to receive a spinoff.

One Joe Jitsu was the title character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano, and was voted into the comic by Beano readers in early 2004, along with Colin the Vet.

According to an April 1 – 4, 1993, telephone survey of 1, 011 people by the Times Mirror Center for the People and the Press ( now Pew Research Center ), before the Frasier premiere and the Cheers finale, Sam Malone ( Ted Danson ) was voted a favorite character by 26 percent, and Frasier Crane and Lilith Sternin were voted favorites by 1 percent each.

In another adventure, Mampato goes forward to the 40th century, where he meets another recurring character: Rena, a beautiful girl with psychic abilities.

The project involved 3, 400 workers, mostly immigrants from Europe, along with hundreds of Mohawk iron workers, many from the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal. Perhaps the most famous popular culture representation of the building is in the 1933 film King Kong, in which the title character, a giant ape, climbs to the top to escape his captors but falls to his death after being attacked by airplanes.

Historically the å has developed from a ligature by writing a small a on top of the letter a ; if an å character is unavailable, some Scandinavian languages allow the substitution of a doubled a.

* Inferential ideograms ( 会意字 ) -- the combination of pictograms or pictographic parts to create a new character that pictorially mimicks the intended meaning of the new word, e. g. the character for " love ", which combines the pictograms for " heart " as the radical with the pictogram for " receive "; the character for " sharp ", which combines the pictogram " small " at the top with the pictogram for " big " at the bottom ; or the character for " room ", which combines the pictogram for " household " overarching the pictogram for " square ";

Foodservice establishments with names ending with the Chinese character zhuang (), or zhuang zihao (), were the top ranking foodservice establishments, not only in providing foods, but also entertainment as well.

The top unscrewed, and out came a largish, mouse-like character in a duffel coat, who wanted fuel for his spacecraft.

Lando Calrissian was chosen as the 11th top Star Wars character by IGN and the character was chosen as the 12th top Star Wars hero by Jesse Schedeen.

IGN listed Luke as their 4th top Star Wars character, and was chosen twice by IGN's readers as one of their favorite Star Wars characters.

The top of the character would overhang the slug, forming a kern which was less fragile than the normal kerns of foundry type, as it was on a slab of cast metal.

Lorre made nine movies altogether with Sydney Greenstreet counting The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca, most of them variations on the latter film, including Background to Danger ( 1943, with George Raft ); Passage to Marseille ( 1944, reteaming them with Casablanca stars Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains ); The Mask of Dimitrios ( 1944, with character actor Greenstreet receiving top billing ); The Conspirators ( 1944, with Hedy Lamarr and Paul Henreid ); Hollywood Canteen ( 1944 ); Three Strangers ( 1946 ), a suspense film about three people who are joint partners on a winning lottery ticket starring top-billed Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and third-billed Lorre cast against type by director Jean Negulesco as the romantic lead ; and Greenstreet and Lorre's final film together, suspense thriller The Verdict ( 1946 ), director Don Siegel's first movie, with Greenstreet and Lorre finally billed first and second, respectively.

According to Kramer, he and Rose intentionally structured the film to debunk ethnic stereotypes ; the young doctor, a typical role for the young Sidney Poitier, was purposely created idealistically perfect, so that the only possible objection to his marrying Joanna would be his race, or the fact she had only known him for ten days: the character has thus graduated from a top school, begun innovative medical initiatives in Africa, refused to have premarital sex with his fiancée despite her willingness, and leaves money in an open container on his future father-in-law's desk in payment for a long distance phone call he has made.

In a 1998 Star Wars Insider poll of fans ' favorite Star Wars characters, Mara Jade was the only Expanded Universe character to break the top 20.

Mara Jade was chosen by IGN as the 19th top Star Wars character.

IGN's Jesse Schedeen also listed the character as the top 10th Star Wars hero, noting that she " entered the Expanded Universe early, and she's stuck around for so long because she's just a great character ".

UGO Networks called the character the seventh top Star Wars Expanded Universe character, calling her complex.

* Characters are split up into different levels: only portions of a character, such as the mouth or an arm, would be animated on top of a static cel.

Online message boards were populated by large threads about the incident, and a satirical work even stated that CCTV's website was the number one " very erotic very violent " website on the internet, with some users even creating their own toplists of sites which meet these criteria, the " top 8 very erotic very violent sports events " and even identifying things that are yellow as being erotic ( since 黄, huáng, the Mandarin character for " yellow ", also means " erotic ").

It is associated with the following components: 水, 氵, 小, the three strokes on the top of 学, and the three strokes on the top of 当. Additionally, a component which might be described as two 冫, back to back, is associated with this character.