21.   Ms. Larmore always has enjoyed playing authoritative, hot-headed male characters like this one.

22.   Now that shows have attracted male audiences, Shaffner said, plot lines allow male characters to redo their bachelor digs.

23.   One byproduct of creating three-dimensional female characters has been the emergence of male characters who go beyond stereotypes.

24.   Players start with a sparsely furnished house and a male character with a fairly balanced personality.

25.   Prime time is strewn with noble, brave, dedicated, attractive male characters that any little boy might be proud to emulate.

26.   Playing sports and wanting to be kissed or have sex were linked to male characters.

27.   Standing at the center of the play, his shaky hands outstretched as if pleading for benediction, is the most complex male character Williams ever wrote.

28.   Tarantino and Marie Claire Hannan, who has designed the costumes for several of his movies, suggested that some male characters wear Kik Wear.

29.   The characters in his novel, the major male characters, all seem to be himself.

30.   The lead male character, a poet, chooses to pursue a date by reading lyrical lines rather than pickup lines at a bar.