characters

[ kar-ik-terz ]

noun

1. the plural of character.

Example Sentences

Created by Joshua Zetumer, who adapts Patrick Radden Keefe‘s multiple award-winning 2018 nonfiction book, subtitled “A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland,” it focuses instead on a handful of characters, their activities and relationships.

From Los Angeles Times

There is some violence onscreen, or just offscreen, perpetrated by or against the characters — you feel it in either case.

From Los Angeles Times

For example, when China banned TV shows depicting same-sex kissing or hand-holding in 2016, producers found they could use shots of eye contact between characters to communicate intimacy.

From Los Angeles Times

Like a nonfiction novel, Keefe’s book traces five decades of thorny history from the perspective of real-life characters, including the notorious Price sisters, Marian and Dolours, I.R.A. militants whose prison hunger strikes made front-page news in the 1970s, and Gerry Adams, the political leader who helped bring peace to Northern Ireland but has been accused of participating in atrocities committed during the height of the conflict.

From Los Angeles Times

“We really tried to ground it in the emotional perspective of the characters at every moment,” Zetumer said.

From Los Angeles Times

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