characters
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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To be sure, Segel and Weaving are much more winning once their characters start warming to one another.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026
As the somewhat predictable plot unfolds, Ms. Brown deftly sketches the main characters: a genial Oxford don, a dog-loving manuscript expert, an elegant Austrian scholar, a pompous Princeton professor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Everything in “Mother Mary” feels like it exists in a dream within a dream: the tertiary characters who fade in and out of the narrative, the catchy yet indistinct pop songs, the dreary midnight-blue location.
From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026
But even as their stories sparked a public outcry about AI ethics, AFP saw that "The Peach Blossom Hairpin" kept running for days before its removal, with the disputed characters quietly replaced.
From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026
For example, characters and themes are given a short musical pattern, and every time that character or theme appears, the musical pattern is performed.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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