Sanakirja.org

Esimerkit

• It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye.
• What a character she is! You never know what she’s going do next.
• This subterraneous passage is much mended since Seneca gave so bad a character of it.
• Her actions give her a bad character.
• a man's character for truth and veracity
• in his character as a magistrate
• in the miserable character of a slave
• We saw a shady character slinking out of the office with some papers.
• You know the character to be your brother's?
• an inscription in the Runic character
• The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
• That bloke is such a character.
• Julius Caesar is a great historical character.
• "You may not like to eat liver," said Calvin's father, "but it builds character."
• He has a great deal of character.
• A study of the suspect's character and his cast iron alibi ruled him out.
• Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.
• a man of [...] thoroughly subservient character
• But Pirates! comes with all the usual Aardman strengths intact, particularly the sense that its characters and creators alike are too good-hearted and sweet to nitpick. The ambition is all in the craft rather than in the storytelling, but it’s hard to say no to the proficiency of that craft, or the mild good cheer behind it.