Word: characterize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The surrealism works to build the play's image of Thoreau, by organizing the play according to his character and not strictly to historical events. By the end of the play, all the fragments have weaved themselves together to form a coherent picture of a Thoreau who seems wise and...
"It seems that the 50 percent won't change the character [of the stereotyped houses]," said Peterson. "You'll just stick people in that wouldn't want to be part of that character," he added.
Since it's too hard to believe that Blumenthal could misread or mishear this badly, I can only conclude that he thinks his readers are illiterate and/or deaf. Well, we're not. We recognize a misquote when we see it, and we recognize a mud-slinging at our collective character...
One of the obsessive fans (Nathan Lane) is extravagantly camp, a walking aria of loveless lament. The other (Anthony Heald), casually straight in manner but for an occasional nervous flutter of his hands, has a thriving career as a book editor and a cozy home life with a physician. They...
Intrigued as well as irritated, Bush kept up his character study throughout the two-day summit in San Jose. The night that El Salvador's Alfredo Cristiani criticized Ortega publicly, Bush looked down the table to his right at the tilted chin, the solemn profile of the Nicaraguan President. "He...