With dash and cunning, Mr Schama follows his leading characters into the shadow that falls across his story.
In "Tender Is the Night" (1934), the novel's two leading characters, Nicole and Dick, court each other in a Swiss sanitarium by playing American records.
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Apart from the Australian cast and some Indonesian military figures, the other leading characters are left largely undeveloped and appear on the page as mere shadows.
Despite the fact that we never mastered the keyboard, we were still able to frequently type emails and text messages fast enough to get ahead of the i607's ability to process individual characters, leading to a frustrating lag between what you're typing and what you see.
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David Brewer offers a reliable historical account of these complex events, sketching the characters of the leading participants, attempting to discern strategies and tracing the political shifts within Greece and internationally.
Other characters hang back and cast spells that support the leading warriors and gradually deplete the health or thwart the spells or other abilities of the boss.
The characters will act as a guide for the audience, leading them into the story and giving them a clearer understanding and greater emotional involvement with what is going on.
It's a Chekhov-style ensemble play whose 11 onstage characters, whether they know it or not, are all leading lonely, unfulfilled lives.
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