There, he encountered a student - a man named Kaplan - who would inspire one of the most memorable comic figures of 20th-century fiction.

In a culture that favors discreet anonymity, he cut a memorable figure.

Aside from being one of the book's most memorable figures, his gift resembles that of the authors themselves.

Sarath, a polymorphous spirit and the book's most memorable figure, cautions that the real truth of his country is ambiguous and unobtainable.

It's usually the appointed grown-ups who are the memorable figures, the ones with the high romantic hopes and fears.

She is a memorable figure in American fiction.

Her memorable figure was hidden under the full-length trench coat.

He knows how to make atonal figures memorable - something precious few composers after Schoenberg have known how to do.

Even on 'Brad'- not the most excitable jockey - they may have recorded some memorable figures.

Ironically, her dead husband proves a more memorable figure than either of the women.