Abandoned in character and selfish in principle, many heads of poor families addict themselves to bad company, despoiling their families of their earnings and of charitable supplies, and stupifying their consciences in the cup of intoxication.
The plot is simple, cause and effect flow on steadily to the end in the unfoldment of character and action, and the design of the author is easily grasped.
To most literary artists religion is a vital part of life, which enters as a profound element into their teachings or into their interpretations of character and incident.
The nation cannot have a noble moral life unless the individuals of which it is composed are pure in character and noble in conduct.
We want the old and the young to work side by side, if the work is to last and the sanctuary is to be ample enough to embrace all shades of character and tendencies of thought.
Man's sin is made the occasion for a more glorious display of God's character and heart.
Seeing the individual as a system of chemical substances interacting will assist enormously to predict the nature, character and constitution of his descendants, which is essentially what the eugenist is after.
But no better examples could be given, off-hand, of the determining stamp of the internal secretions upon mind, character and conduct.
The greyhound has a certain size, form, character and capacity.
But a mind imbued with true and spiritual beauty is in cases of the kind we have supposed sure to be elevated to the highest sphere of character and of feeling.
From an account written by one of these delegates immediately after the meeting we get an insight into the worthy priest's character and motives.
Maria Petrovna was exactly suited by character and education to be the wife of a man like Ivan Ivan'itch.
We can perceive at a glance that it is composed of two sections, differing widely from each other in character and aims.
You have the same enjoyment of it that you have of a picture--a picture, I mean, full of character and sentiment, not a photograph.
Reading it over now, with more light and a juster knowledge of character and of measures, is it not probable that he would find it a tissue of misconceptions?
Only by such rudimentary and industrial training can the mass of the negro race in the United States be expected to improve in character and position.
No unity of plan, no decent propriety of character and costume, could be found in that wild and monstrous harlequinade.
Both were equally distinguished by force ofcharacter and by personal courage.
In the long calendar of those whom he has tried, there is hardly one who has not, in spite of evidence to character and recommendations to mercy, been sentenced and left for execution.
As the text now stands, it not only implies a distinction between vigour of character and decision of character, but denies the latter to the king absolutely, the former, with qualification.
There is, or ought to be, a close interdependence between action, character and dialogue, which forbids a playwright to tie his hands very far in advance.
This typical athletic sport may, therefore, serve to illustrate the bearing of athletics upon the development of the contestant's character and physique.
The reviewer thinks the author's descriptive power wholly exceeds his conception of character and invention of circumstances.
It was just one of those artificially pleasing effects that so often pass with such as have little experience of life for the genuine expression of character and feeling.
I had in my early youth a key furnished me to some of the leading traits which were in due time to develop themselves in Emerson's character and intelligence.
They have not, as dogs have, the distinguishing marks of character and demonstrativeness.
It was his object to paint a character and appearance as near to his Mary's as he could master; to induce Miss Ram to suggest her as likely candidate for the post.
Nor will I tell you how fondly, since I left you, I have thought of all your nobility of character and of your goodness to me, Mr. Marrapit.
All the while that he held me so fast by his potent charm I was aware that it was a very rough magic now and again, but I could not assert my sense of this against him in matters of character and structure.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "character and" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
