11.   It adds a certain bitterness and gives character to the mixture.

12.   It gave me character.

13.   Lucille Ball, Jackie Gleason and Mary Tyler Moore gave us characters who are still beloved.

14.   Mainly, she gives a character who should be at least partly girlish and fetching all the allure of fingernails on a blackboard.

15.   Ms. Devine gives her character, a woman of some girth, a sexy comic swivel, and Ms. Rochon exudes a smoldering heat.

16.   Nor are the biographies he gives his characters freshly and concretely detailed enough to make the emotional pay-offs work.

17.   Other well-known characters have been given new features, too.

18.   Specially commissioned, hand-worked Italian frescoes give character to ceilings, staircases and arches.

19.   Stalwart character Goofy is given a teen-age son who is embarrassed by his nerdissimo dad.

20.   The city also has to take care to nurture not just national chains, but the locally owned, independent businesses that give character to the retail core.