Love is a character trait of the Heart, not of the Mind and/or Intellect. Lucifer ca be compared with The Serpent in The Garden of Eden that was decieving that knowledge was the way to salvation. Wrong! It is not. Often on the contrary. But non-spiritual, carnal and wordly people oft...
While fearful might be used more to describe someone in a certain situation, cowardly would be more of a character trait–someone who is always easily scared. Therefor, calling someone a coward would be considered an insult. What is the strongest word for scared? 1 scared, fearful, disquieted...
While we tend to think of a mask as being worn to conceal one’s identity, the theatrical mask was originally used to either represent or project a specific personality trait of a character (Figure 1). Figure 1. Happy, sad, impatient, shy, fearful, curious, helpful. What characteristics ...
OK, so teaching wasn’t everyone’s first choice for their career. Sad but true. There are also plenty of teachers out there who have lost their passion along the way. Maybe one too many students refused to listen to them. Maybe they’ve become jaded by the education system....
Something like 'indifferent' or 'impassive' but sans the negative connotation. I was considering equanimous, but I guess that word mostly means stable minded in face of adversities, and it's a character trait rather than a one-time response to something. Eg: I am neither sad nor happy ab...
Acting cheerfully despite feeling upset isn’t suppression; it’s character. Suppression is when we deliberately avoid a certain emotion because we’re afraid of it. If we were to act cheerfully because we were afraid of feeling irritable or sad, that would be suppression. In suppression, the...
the intrinsic value of the lives we lead reflects the strength of a single trait: our personal character. We should take the steps to personal growth from examining our lives to taking responsibility for our actions, from discarding selfishness to embracing the greater good, from being a better...
Direct characterization refers to the way a writerexplicitly describes a character’s traitsin the narration of a novel or story, e.g.He had green eyesorShe was quick with a joke. This technique is most often used the first time each character appears on the page, but small amounts of ...
I prefer to think of shyness as a feeling rather than a character trait. I feel shy in certain situations, and sometimes it comes over me when I least expect it. Being shy is perceived as a negative, not a designation a child can feel proud about, and it is hard to break out of....
a long sports match. Sometimes it’s a challenge for your mind, like learning a new math equation or staying focused on something you need to do when you really want to be doing something else. Sometimes challenges are emotional like when you’re sad after a pet dies or when a ...