Word: characterizing
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No, the thing that sets Kennedy apart, in an international context, is neither his character nor his family: it is that he had a long and productive career as a legislator. The record of his achievements in the Senate, over 47 years, is immense - groundbreaking laws on education, health care...
That's quite a feat in Up in the Air, since his character, Ryan Bingham, is a management consultant hired by other companies to tell their employees they're no longer employed. He's a fire-man; he keeps his job by relieving other people of theirs. And he does...
Clooney responds to this unusual freedom with the sharpest, most nuanced performance of his career. He gets inside Ryan because, as he has acknowledged, this is a portrait of a character not far from his own: a traveling man with scores of women in his past, riding high on the...
Not that the Coen brothers - who were raised in an academic Jewish family in Minneapolis, and were 13 and 10 respectively when the movie takes place - are self or other-hating Jews. But as filmmakers (and Oscar-winners, last year, for No Country for Old Men), they've always enjoyed...
Vitter, Senator David • observation by that "character is displayed in a variety of different ways", and not solely by the decision to commit adultery with prostitutes