In this graceful collection of stories, good-natured characters manage to make marriage and parenthood work despite the messiness, and conclude that imperfect lives are well worth living for.

Despite the blood on his face he was a good-looking man with a confidence and friendliness that seemed to come from a contented and good-natured character.

Nojima decided that this type of good-natured character would work best as the headmaster of Balamb Garden.

As Miss Paulmann plays her, Alice is a complex and disturbing figure, quite unlike the earnest, good-natured character in the book.

Whatever prejudiced and unauthorised constructions your blind and envious wrath may put upon his character, it is a frank, good-natured character.

"The College Dropout" defied recent hip-hop formulas by presenting Mr. West as a thoughtful, good-natured character without gangster trappings.

Despite themselves, the good-natured characters in "Lies of the Saints" keep stumbling into happiness, that "state of perpetual surprise."

Rhodan was cheered up again by Garand who was one of those good-natured characters who talked in the most cordial manner when conditions were at their worst.

His "mentally negligible" good-natured characters invariably make their lot worse by their half-witted schemes to improve a bad situation.

Much importance is attached to the balanced, good-natured character of these horses.