On the other, I just can't help but imagine how crestfallen he'll be when he discovers that he's just a make-believe character.

Preschool-age boys will generally gravitate to masculine make-believe characters like the strapping superhero, while girls will adopt feminine roles, wanting to be the mommy when playing house, for example.

So painful that they will often invent a make-believe character you would never want to sit next to at dinner.

When politicians talk to make-believe characters, where does politics end and fiction begin?

They don't quarrel and grab, and if they had done so, Sophie or another make-believe character probably would have intervened and insisted on kind, considerate behavior.

No wonder Sherlock Holmes seems a real person, reducing someone like Oliver Cromwell to a make-believe character in a rather tiresome novel.

Tanqueray, the best-selling brand of imported gin, is ending a five-year campaign featuring a make-believe character named Mr. Jenkins, a dapper roue whose sybaritic adventures centered on parties and gin martinis.

They embodied the basic rules of phonics into stories about these make-believe characters called Letter People.

The participation of a make-believe character in a real election is a venerable device.

He was photogenic, funny and, unfortunately for the Cardinals, only a make-believe character portrayed by the actor Cuba Gooding Jr. in the 1996 movie "Jerry Maguire."