Today's comics are more lean, aggressive characters who rely heavily on sarcasm and politics for their laughs.

Named after the chemistry term, this rather aggressive character prefers body parts, and useful inventions for his daily needs and experiments.

For audiences, particularly women viewers, this overly aggressive female character provides a complex site for identification with one's own aggression.

Despite the potentially aggressive character suggested by its title, it lacked any desire to shock or assault or sound "advanced."

Is he just kind of a bombastic, aggressive, larger-than-life character or was he acting this way, on some level, because he's black?

The garlic in the puree of potatoes was cooked in 10 changes of water to remove its aggressive character.

Those most aggressive characters, the linebackers, eat their lunch at the same time, even burp at reporters in unison.

"I'm not sure I can play such a sexually aggressive character again," she says.

Her husband concurred: "The daily fight for survival in a market economy forms a different, more aggressive character."

Reubin Clein was considered an agitator and generally an aggressive character.