sympathetic characters

Mathew Turner of View London said Cruz's character Gloria, a cancer-riddled prostitute, is " actually more interesting than the main storyline " while Time Evan's of Sky Movies wrote, " The Cruz / Ifans storyline – featuring the only two remotely sympathetic characters – never really fuses with the main plot.

Her film choices were often unconventional ; she sought roles as manipulators and killers in an era when actresses usually preferred to play sympathetic characters, and she excelled in them.

It generally has a higher tessitura than a soubrette and usually plays ingenues and other sympathetic characters in opera.

Meanwhile, more sympathetic characters idolize Fonzie due to his success with women and his imperturbable " cool ".

At that time, Ambler was politically a staunch anti-Fascist and like many others tended to regard the Soviet Union as the only real counterweight-which was reflected in the fact that some of his early books include Soviet agents depicted positively and as sympathetic characters, the undoubted allies of the main protagonist.

A high account is given to learning: those who are " well-read " are often sympathetic characters, while those who shun knowledge are villains.

He makes similarly sympathetic characters of a poor forester's wife who shelters Hannay when he has malaria, and of the captain of the Danube river steamer who takes Hannay on as engineer.

The entire ending was changed for the film, and critics complained that while the book showed the police officers as sympathetic characters, the film painted them as a bunch of drunken jerks.

The great originality of its plan consisted in the absence of all love interest and of sympathetic characters.

Time passes ; King Edward dies and his persecution of Catholics ends, only to follow by his successor, Queen Mary I's persecution of Protestants ; the Browne family fortunes prosper under the Marian reign ; and sympathetic characters harden into detestable ones.

The central animal character, ' Shardik ', is an enormous and savage bear, and quite different from the group of sympathetic characters from the previous novel.

Phyllis Lassner, who has written extensively on Manning's writing from a colonial and post-colonial perspective, notes how even sympathetic characters are not excused their complicity as colonisers ; the responses of the Pringles assert " the vexed relationship between their own status as colonial exiles and that of the colonised " and native Egyptians, though given very little direct voice in The Levant Trilogy, nevertheless assert subjectivity for their country.

The book was well received in Germany, and particularly in the East ; the author, Seghers, was known to be a Communist, and some of the " heroic " or sympathetic characters in The Seventh Cross are also members of the Communist Party.

Her novels and plays are committed to developing deep, sympathetic characters, to understanding ' life ' in its complexity.

Most of the time, this is represented by being able to save sympathetic characters who were on the " wrong " side of the conflict, such as Gundam 0080's Bernard Wiseman and Zeta Gundam's Four Murasame.

There are many references to genocide and slavery ; not to mention a passage where animals gather outside a hut to devour the humans inside ( a young man and his beloved, who are the most sympathetic characters next to Mudface and his mate ).

The film has been noted as groundbreaking in its lack of sympathetic characters, the deadly punishment of its protagonist ( in the American version ), and especially in its realistic portrayal of triumph by racketeers neither slowed nor at all worried by the machinations of law.

The Independent published an article by Anthony Hayward which stated that actor Bryan Mosley made his character " one of the most enduring and sympathetic characters in Coronation Street.

Villains from this series are also notable because they are portrayed more as sympathetic characters than outright evil.