31.   But in Renton, the central character, I found myself increasingly fascinated.

32.   But its antic central character again feels right enough to make the producer Robert Evans want to make a movie updating her.

33.   But presented as an off-kilter spoof, and draped around a winningly drawn central character, the premise has promise.

34.   But there are questions still about the guilt of the central character of the saga, Wen Ho Lee.

35.   CBS figures a baby with an adult sensibility and a gruff voice might be an amusing central character in a prime-time sitcom.

36.   Central characters are newspaper journalists who watch as proper Brit society devolves into roving gangs and religious fanatics.

37.   Convinced he has shot his brother, the central character gets on a subway to Coney Island.

38.   Delaney Mossbacher, one of the four central characters in this book, never grasps that and the result is disaster for two families.

39.   Democrats say they would like to call the central characters in the Lewinsky scandal to judge their credibility.

40.   Desmond is not only the central character, but also a combination of host, narrator, lab specimen and loopy alter ego for Gibbons.