People don't tend to employ me. I'm the wrong personality type. Or rather, people do tend to employ me for a short time and then they sack me. A film broker once told me, as she terminated my contract, that I have a misleading sort of face.
"You're pretty", she complained. "Your features are symmetrical and there was an article in Grazia that says human beings are programmed to find those with symmetrical features more pleasing to they eye. So this isn't my fault, I was simply responding to a biological imperative. You've even teeth, so when you smile, you look...sweet, I suppose. But you're not, are you?"
"I hope not," I said.
"You see, there you go again. You're a smart-arse and you've no ability to filter your thoughts---"
"And my thoughts are often abrasive."
"Exactly."
"I'll just get my brushes and sponges and leave."
"If you would.
Tag: humorous character-description turn-of-phrase way-with-words
Trouble was her default setting.
C.J. DaughertyDr. Wintermute beheld Mrs. Pinchbeck befeathered, beribboned, crinolined, corseted, frizzled, and festooned, though not wasted.
Laura Amy SchlitzGénéralement il exprimait ses idées par de petites phrases sentencieuses et dites d'une voix douce. Depuis la Révolution, époque à laquelle il attira les regards, le bonhomme bégayait d'une manière fatigante aussitôt qu'il avait à discourir longuement ou à soutenir une discussion. Ce bredouillement, l'incohérence de ses paroles, le flux de mots où il noyait sa pensée, son manque apparent de logique attribués à un défaut d'éducation étaient affectés et seront suffisamment expliqués par quelques événements de cette histoire. D'ailleurs, quatre phrases exactes autant que des formules algébriques lui servaient habituellement à embrasser, à résoudre toutes les difficultés de la vie et du commerce : Je ne sais pas, je ne puis pas, je ne veux pas, nous venons cela. Il ne disait jamais ni oui ni non, et n'écrivait point. Lui parlait-on ? il écoutait froidement, se tenait le menton dans la main droite en appuyant son coude droit sur le revers de la main gauche, et se formait en toute affaire des opinions desquelles il ne revenait point. Il méditait longuement les moindres marchés. Quand, après une savante conversation, son adversaire lui avait livré le secret de ses prétentions en croyant le tenir, il lui répondait : - Je ne puis rien conclure sans avoir consulté ma femme.
Honoré de BalzacRemember "the unmoored boat floats about.
Murasaki ShikibuNature forgot to shade him off, I think... A little too boisterous--like the sea. A little too
vehement--like a bull who has made up his mind to consider every
colour scarlet. But I grant a sledge-hammering sort of merit in him!
Tag: loudness character-description
They were handy to have around, Nate's little gang. They were that wonderful combination of talented and noble. The former was useful, while the latter made it so incredibly easy to poke them with a metaphorical stick.
Keith R.A. DeCandidoTag: humor character-description leverage james-sterling
Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible, distant because of his demonstrated flawlessness, and possessing such strength of character that he was dismaying and at the same time utterly attractive in an enticing and forbidden way.
Simona PanovaTag: love man woman romantic beauty god romance relationships danger temptation myth balance charming legend character suspense personality looks girl perfect perfection boy description gothic hero young-adult attraction mythology relationship deity beautiful possession charm dangerous pretty nightmare in-love forbidden female look crush goddess handsome heroic male character-description flawless tempted distant attractive tempt attract gothic-romance dismay entice demonstrate fascinating goth possessive possess bewitched bewitching he enticing she tempting forbid young-adult-gothic-romance bewitch demonstrative dismaying enticed flawlessness inaccessible
Peter was a gentle, red-haired bear of a man. Standing at six-four in his socks, he moved everywhere with a slight and nautical sway, but even though he was broad across the chest there was something centered and reassuring about him, like an old ship's mast cut from a single timber.
Graham JoyceTag: ship character-description
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