Ones in which the characters are colder and more miserable than you (Chekhov stories, Ibsen plays, Dostoevsky doorstops)?
Or ones in which the characters are, if not quite happy, at least soaking up some sun on the French Riviera or in Cuba ?
The movie starts off with separate vignettes in which the characters run afoul of each other, say things better left unsaid, and get into terrible trouble.
The cinematographer, Frederick Elmes, produces an even, gray light that is quite handsome in a neutralizing way but also sobering and almost punitive it says that the American banality in which the characters live is all there is.
Recalling the question as to how can the Pope evangelize in 140 characters, which is the limit of characters for an individual tweet, Archbishop Celli said that while it is a challenge, it is not a significant setback.
Organisers of next year's event sought permission from the owners of the characters which feature in the poster.
Campaigners have welcomed the storyline - which features two of the characters fighting after a furious row in British Sign Language.
But most exciting were the dozens of square clay tablets inscribed with letters which, if Neolithic, predated by many millennia the Phoenician characters from which Western alphabets were supposed to have come making Glozel, not the Middle East, the cradle of Western civilisation.
" 'Downton, ' I think, has achieved its success for the opposite reason, which is that all the characters are taken seriously, " he says.
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We began by showing Billie's final moments with Doctor Who - in which both of the characters were in tears as they said goodbye.
Taking their cue from a line in which one of the characters describes the Porters' one-room flat as "a very narrow strip of plain hell, " they have built a flat black wall five feet from the lip of the theater's stage, creating a claustrophobically narrow playing area in which the action takes place.
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It was only after finishing the script that he let the lawyers figure out which game characters could actually appear in the film.
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According to Entertainment Weekly, the films will take place during the time frames of the original three movies (which, if you remember, took place after the last three movies) which would mean characters like Darth Vader and Jabba the Hutt could be included.
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Indeed, the visual is so important in this book that the descriptive writing has more emotional charge than the passages which give us access to the main characters' minds.
Just as the routine of courtship is constantly renewed in humans, so the Cartland stories are served by a simple plot in which only the scenery and the characters are changed.
So, building and husbanding power meter bars adds a deeper level to the game, and one which ties into the presentation of the characters.
What ensues is a strange blend of manhunt and tone poem, in which even the most brutal characters seem rapt in the face of red earth and endless sky.
What upset him was an episode in which one of the central characters, Stan, does well in a Scientology test and is hailed as the successor to the church's founder, L Ron Hubbard.
The songs, which have no names, build from the characters' interactions and feelings.
The case provides a good opportunity to review the laws relating to the protection of fictional characters which implicate unauthorized sequels and adaptations of existing works, the popular and widespread subculture of fan fiction, and many other applications.
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In 2010, South Korean researchers successfully created 3-D animated children's e-books in which characters leap off the page technology which could soon find commercial applications.
The characters for which he wrote, Miss Piggy, Big Bird, the Cookie Monster, the Old Geezers, Oscar the Grouch and so on, are splendid parodies of people.
Our stories will generate from the characters, which are how all good stories start, whereas lots of preschool programming has sacrificed the character to put the message up front.
With the EU rights due to run out in 2007 and the US rights in 2023, the hospital hopes a sequel will extend its rights over the famous characters which have yielded large royalties from film versions.
Like Mr Bezmozgis, Ms Seiffert uses some of the same characters from story to story, which helps draw the collection together.
The 1970s saw Freeborn make a vital contribution to the Star Wars universe, for which he helped create such enduring characters as Chewbacca, Jabba the Hutt and Yoda.
The text message format puts a limit of 160 characters on each poem, which tests the ingenuity and creativity of the poets.
The main menu screen features a circle of six Roald characters - all of which move while the site "waits" for you to select an option.
"Staging the World" also touches on the subject of cross-dressing a recurring comic device in the plays, in which female characters, like Rosalind in "As You Like It, " are in male disguise.
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