Yet behind the dazzling prose and vibrant characters lie ideas we should all pay heed to.

The character can lie down, but he can only aim his gun left or right.

Only after determining where each character lies on the page does it identify the individual characters.

The special character of the Department's approach to problems of the real world will lie in this attempt at systematic synthesis.

The characters lie to each other and the reader about affairs and disappearances.

A very unearthly character of Zimiamvia lies in the fact that nobody wants to change it.

His characters - the present narrator is no exception - routinely lie, mislead or pretend to be what they are not.

In the end, the distinctive character of the American Constitution does not lie in this particular clause or that.

Even Gwyneth's character lies about her age, and she's only 22 or 27.

Not even that is settled; in the end all four characters lie in a circle of blood - are they dead?