All this to say: Sometimes real life characters are just as good as anything in a comic book.
Estleman's intriguing, frequently malignant or low-life characters are richly drawn, truly three- dimensional.
Cari Lynn, a young writer who spent two years as a clerk at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, finds a world populated by larger-than-life characters, high-stakes risk-taking, and excess in all its forms.
Rowling probably doesn't get compared to Charles Dickens in any other respect, but when it comes to creating larger-than-life characters, she has taken his lessons to heart, and actors must love her for it.
London (CNN) -- To an outsider, Thursday's contest to elect the next mayor of London would appear to be a fight between two larger-than-life characters -- known best by their first names -- for control of the city's famous red buses.
Extras include a gag reel, a first for a Marvel Studios film, the chance to hear from the cast and Joss Whedon on their experiences in bringing these larger than life characters to the big screen, a behind-the- scenes look at the groundbreaking visual effects and stunning cinematography, the creation of S.H.
While waiting in line, real-life Cars characters like Lightning McQueen, Mater and DJ come to life.
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Dunn, who was awarded an OBE in 1975, spent much of his acting life playing characters older than himself.
As a result, his grand landscapes, whether industrial or natural, come more vibrantly to life than the characters who inhabit them.
Though the presence of these spirits is somewhat unsettling, oddly enough, they seem to be a normal part of everyday life for these characters.
In 2000 it added "Nickelodeon Central" areas (based on cartoons from the popular kids' cable network) with smaller rides and parades starring life-size characters from the Rugrats series.
Capt Richard Sawyer said the soldier was "undoubtedly one of life's true characters".
The music helps bring the scene and the characters to life, even though it's being played only in our heads.
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Foley had so much personality that he brought multiple characters to life during his illustrious career, including Mankind and Cactus Jack.
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They came from or were educated into the middle class and could not breathe life into the proletarian characters they created.
The exhibit brings these characters to life: Brown led the militant abolitionist raid on the Harpers Ferry Arsenal in October 1859.
Mr Swords King said the process to bring the characters to life in the movie, The Hobbit: The Unexpected Journey, began in 2010.
Simon Clutterbuck, James Jacobs and Dr. Richard Dorling won for inventing a technique which has made huge advances in bringing to life computer-generated characters such as Gollum in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit.
Though the aesthetic is rough-and-ready, Hawley is a sincere and sensitive storyteller who brings the characters to life with subtle, oblique touches that show who they are without saying too much about them.
Or how to engage your children while narrating a story by making the characters come to life?
Gogol's scenes light up their surroundings, his characters flame into life, his tragicomic vision touches the reader's heart.
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The prequels take place a year earlier and introduce key characters in "Life's a Witch, " which tells the story of Hadley Bishop, a teenage descendant of a woman executed during the Salem witch trials.
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Working with Luhrmann and costume and production designer Catherine Martin, the luxury jeweler said it created a collection of platinum-set diamonds and lustrous pearls that complement the period clothes that will help give the actors a true sense of the high life as celebrated by their characters.
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Hamer, who also helped write the script, brings a dozen characters to boisterous life, including a sax player with wandering eyes (Sydney Tafler), his super-slick brother (John Slater), who owns an amusement arcade and fixes local fights, an unholy trio of small-time thieves, an infuriatingly self-important fence, an intrepid police inspector, and an irrepressible reporter.
The sense of a novel being nonfiction can come from borrowing characters and events from life but also purely from the prose.
Though not all of those movies have been epic classics, some are fine films, and the characters gained a new life in pop culture.
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There is no way to edit or append a correction to a tweet, and once it has been retweeted, those 140 characters take on a life of their own.
He barely mentions a New Yorker series written towards the end of his life: long profiles of vivid characters he admired, such as Mel Brooks, Johnny Carson, Ralph Richardson and Tom Stoppard.
Best of all are the hyperefficient butlers--supporting characters for the dramatic fantasy life being proffered.
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