Julian Fellowes has somehow hit on a formula of giving the right amount of characters the right amount of screen time in an internet age where there is just too much information.
The characters and the historical period of time lent itself to have an interesting though uncommon style that we were able to take advantage of musically.
The premise of "Hardbody, " most of whose characters are required to stand in one place most of the time, makes it too physically static to fill the space of a Broadway stage.
Most of the time, the characters sit around or drive somewhere, matching wits or making critical remarks about one another, the best of which are delivered by the devastatingly self-confident Page.
Players take decisions about how to interact with other characters within set time limits through a series of five episodes.
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It's a two-character mystery spread out over 85 minutes of real time in which both characters slowly drop their pretenses and reveal their common hurt.
Light and Hecht, who play sisters-in-law, are the spine of the show, and only a few of the other characters take the jump in time with them.
In a comedy of manners set amid the chaos of modern Beijing, the characters have a hard time just keeping their heads.
Its characters are educated-sounding people who spend much of their time saying cryptic, nasty things to one another, presumably while holding stiff cocktails.
"DC has a harder time of it than Marvel because their characters are (from) an old, a bygone era, where characters were bigger than we were, " he said.
"The real challenge of writing this book was to find the connecting fibers of the characters and to find how their stories overlapped in time and structure and themes, " Mr. Hosseini said.
Mr. Levin sets his characters in their time by having them talk about the pop culture of the age.
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With users engaging with apps for short, but frequent periods of time, expect apps to begin developing new complex characters and more robust story lines in the near future.
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You may create as many characters as you want, and while you are limited to a set number in your party at any given time, part of the fun is swapping out characters to find that perfect balance.
One group for visually impaired people, Open Sight, which meets in Waterlooville, spent time dressing up as Tudor characters and handling objects including pieces of timber from the 500-year-old ship.
"I want people to sit back and have a fantastic time with the characters and have a fantastic insight into some of the amazing African landscapes that we've put into this film, " says Thornley.
Later on in the series will come S.mouse, a rap artist from Los Angeles and the creative genius behind the most successful hip-hop single of all time, Slap My Elbow, and other US-based characters.
She has said the germ of the idea for the novel was "the notion of transience that hotels are all about, and at the same time the notion of tiered social hierarchies" - with three characters trapped in their class roles.
You might think, then, that somebody linking up with a CFO or other business professional would be more valuable than, say, your aunt who posted pictures of her dog or the hipster trying to understand the universe 140 characters at a time.
Once past that barrier, however, Rowling quickly gets back on track, introducing readers to a host of well-drawn new characters setting foot on Harry's turf for the first time.
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In addition to the interactive game, the campaign features a 30-second TV spot in which Briskified versions of two iconic Star Wars characters, Darth Maul and Yoda, face off for the first time.
Every character got their arc, every character had time to develop and build relationships with other characters, and every character suffered some kind of challenge that tested them and forced them to overcome limitations and obstacles in order to be a strong link in the chain for the team.
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Before Wolk got involved, the minority shareholders of a company Lee founded in the 1990s had for a long time unsuccessfully litigated over these characters, but Wolk has not been dissuaded.
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Gates still adopts personas, but they're more often modeled after historic black characters like South Carolina slave potter Dave Drake, who famously wrote poems on the shoulders of his pots at a time when black people were forbidden to read.
In it, characters come, go and then return later, often much changed for better or worse by fate and the passage of time.
Buy a stock and you have entered a virtual arena of realms and battles, with characters taking roles in stories that play out over a known (to insiders) time period.
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