Or else the North really believes that all Southerners except a few quaint old characters have come around to realizing the errors of their past, and are now at heart sharers of the American Dream, like everybody else.

The voices of all the characters, including that of Cherkasov, have richness, roughness or color to conform with the personalities.

" Impure " abjads have characters for some vowels, optional vowel diacritics, or both.

She is one of a few characters who played a major part in the original cause of the Trojan War itself: not only did she offer Helen of Troy to Paris, but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time, was inflamed with desire to have her — which is Aphrodite's realm.

Instead, lower bidding characters are ranked in ascending order according to how much they have bid, the characters becoming progressively weaker in that attribute as they pay less for it.

The Auction simulates a ' history ' of competition between the descendants of Oberon for player characters who have not had dozens of decades to get to know each other.

However, in general, the books only feature mental battles when there is some reason for mind-to-mind contact ( for example, Trump contact ) and magic or Trump is involved in all three of the above conflicts, so it is not clear whether Zelazny intended his characters to have such a power ; the combination of Brand's " living trump " powers and his high Psyche ( as presented in the roleplaying game ) would have guaranteed him victory over Corwin.

Both characters feel themselves in trouble, and there was speculation that Alan Ayckbourn himself may have felt himself to be in trouble.

There have also been a number of games based on the characters, and a theme park near Paris, Parc Astérix, is themed around the series.

Moreover, the ansibles Le Guin uses in her stories apparently have a very limited bandwidth which only allows for at most a few hundred characters of text to be communicated in any transaction of a dialog session.

Dual wielded weapons have become the trademark of some game characters, most notably Lara Croft and Dante.

The characters have made cameo appearances ( either visually or only voices ) and have been referenced in numerous television shows, such as Friends, Two and a Half Men, Celebrity Deathmatch, Robot Chicken, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, and Saturday Night Live ( TV Funhouse ), in films such as Airheads, Clueless, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and Jackass 3D, and even parodied in children shows such as Tiny Toon Adventures, Regular Show and Arthur.

Psychologists have been intrigued by De Palma's fascination with pathology, by the aberrant behavior aroused in characters who find themselves manipulated by others.

Despite their appearance at the end of the Book of Judges, certain characters ( like Jonathan, the grandson of Moses ) and idioms present in the epilogue show that the therein " must have taken place ... early in the period of the judges.

They have the only embossers with staking unit and with Staple and fold Unit which produces books at a speed of 650 braille characters per second and a finished book.

Its iconic characters such as Dennis the Menace, Roger the Dodger, Minnie the Minx, The Bash Street Kids, Calamity James, Ball Boy, Ivy the Terrible and Billy Whizz have become known to generations of British children.

Earlier generations will remember other notable characters who have been phased out, such as Biffo the Bear and Lord Snooty.

Some old characters, like The Three Bears and Little Plum, have more recently made a return.

Dennis the Menace's famous ' red and black ' jersey had formed the colours of a few of the Beano characters ' clothes ( Minnie the Minx has the same, although the placement of the stripes is a bit different ; Ball Boy's was a vertical red and black ; Roger the Dodger has a chessboard design top, and Danny ( from the Bash Street Kids ) has a similar cap ), but they have changed for Minnie and Ball Boy ( Minnie at one point had a red and yellow top and Ball Boy's strip is now black and blue ).

Variable-length codes are especially useful when clear text characters have different probabilities ; see also entropy encoding.

The use of data coding for data compression predates the computer era ; an early example is the telegraph Morse code where more-frequently used characters have shorter representations.

A teacher's desire to have a talented student, the obligations between a student and a master, and tensions in these relationships are central to the characters ' motives, conflicts between the characters, and the unfolding of the film's plot.

Christmas and Easter costumes typically portray mythical characters such as Santa Claus ( by donning a santa suit and beard ) or the Easter Bunny by putting on an animal costume.

* the novels tend to have a huge cast of characters, typically in the hundreds, all described as to their relation to the various main actors in the story.

These preprocesors would typically support structured programming, variable names longer than six characters, additional data types, conditional compilation, and even macro capabilities.

In a typeface each character typically corresponds to a single glyph, but there are exceptions, such as a font used for a language with a large alphabet or complex writing system, where one character may correspond to several glyphs, or several characters to one glyph.

The characters in yuri are typically " bishōjo ", meaning " beautiful girl " ( this term is not specific to yuri but is applied generally to depictions of attractive women for a male audience ; for example, in the term " bishōjo game ").

Many of her stories have a milieu reminiscent of the space opera and pulp tales she read in her youth, but typically with a much darker tone: the cosmic journeys of her characters are often linked to a drastic spiritual alienation, and / or a transcendent experience which brings fulfillment but also death.

This may be considered particularly appropriate since, due to the room-based nature of traditional MUDs, ranged combat is typically difficult to implement, resulting in most MUDs equipping characters mainly with close-combat weapons.

Myths typically involve supernatural characters and are endorsed by rulers or priests.

The performance consists of a sequence of short scenes, each depicting an interaction between two characters, most typically the violent Punch and one other character.

Games such as fighting games typically have a larger amount of player characters to choose from, with some basic moves available to all or most characters and some unique moves only available to one or a few characters.

In most such games, the player character has no onscreen dialogue and non-player characters will typically address the player as though they don't expect a verbal response.

* the word " car " when it appears as an isolated word ( and delimited from other words, typically through whitespace characters )

Compare abugida, where each grapheme typically represents a syllable but where characters representing related sounds are similar graphically ( typically, a common consonantal base is annotated in a more or less consistent manner to represent the vowel in the syllable ).

A string is generally understood as a data type and is often implemented as an array of bytes ( or words ) that stores a sequence of elements, typically characters, using some character encoding.

In wuxia stories, characters typically attain the above skills and abilities by devoting themselves to diligent study and practice, but can also have such power conferred upon them by a master who transfers his energy to them.

The authors are well aware that it also provides an excuse for mere titillation: in a typically self-referential joke, a character in the story suggests the scenes exist: " only to sell a bad book filled with shallow characters pushing a nonsense conspiracy ".

As well, in real life, crime scene investigators are not responsible for the wide array of police duties that the show's characters typically carry out ( investigation, arrest, interrogation, etc.

A fairy tale ( pronounced / ˈfeəriˌteɪl /) is a type of short story that typically features folkloric fantasy characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants, mermaids, or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments.

Such characters typically combine elements of combat gaming with emphasis on stealth skills, and specialise in defeating an enemy without becoming involved in a close-quarter battle.

The low-level encoding was typically ASCII, further encoded and framed in various schemes such as Intel Hex-in which a binary value of " 01011010 " would be represented by the ASCII characters " 5A ".

Because Rolemaster's approach to combat favors a warrior that is properly armed and armored, a character that is poorly-equipped ( as is typically the case with newly-generated characters ) is decidedly vulnerable.

an unquoted identifier atom can typically contain anything but quote, whitespace characters, parenthesis, brackets, braces, backslash, and semicolon.