Under stress people behave out of character so it is hard to decide really.

To serve the plot, characters begin behaving out of character.

The only reward 1 had was the certain knowledge that Kuo was behaving out of character.

No mature judgment was required to grasp the fact that Ivald was behaving out of character.

Dalgliesh said: 'It's always interesting when men you thought you knew behave out of character.'

'If one of them starts behaving out of character, I know that something's upsetting them.

Quite often they spend days afterwards in a sort of daze, and it's not unknown for them to behave out of character.'

But the judge was prepared to accept that due to extreme financial problems Mrs Fitchew behaved out of character.

The frustrated members of the force didn't stop to debate why The Shadow was behaving out of character; instead, they went after him, guns and all.

Judge James Spencer QC accepted that the men behaved out of character and were ashamed of their behaviour.

Omake often include comedy sketches where the characters behave out of character, break the fourth wall, or subtly address opinions of the fandom known to the writers.

His pupils were developing minds of their own, behaving out of character, no longer the dull but devoted group of enthusiasts he had taught so constructively for six months.

After members of the Orange Order attacked police officers, Robert Saulter, the group's grand master, said, "Ordinary, decent and reasonable men have been goaded into behaving out of character by the authorities."

But H. Charles Perlick, a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in Pittsburgh, which routinely investigates suspicious explosions, says people sometimes behave out of character.

When machines become balky and presumably law-abiding people behave out of character - especially at a station as packed as the one at 86th Street - should an officer's first instinct be to reach for his summons book?

Sharon continued to behave out of character; when she discovers that Victor is alive, she tells everyone he died after identifying a burnt body which was not his (Case said that Sharon took advantage of the situation).

The implication is that a man behaves out of character or in an otherwise inexplicable manner because he is trying to cover up an affair with a woman, or trying to impress or gain favor with a woman.

Following the broadcast of the episode in the UK, The Independent was critical, saying "Twice the length of a normal episode, last night's offering was approximately half as funny" and suggested the cast were behaving out of character.

The series, however, now deals with a wide range of contemporary issues including illicit affairs, drug abuse, rape, and civil partnerships, inviting criticism from conservative commentators such as Peter Hitchens that the series has become a vehicle for liberal and left-wing values and agendas, with characters behaving out of character to achieve those goals.

However, he suggests "Mieville's determination to deliver value for money, a great page-turner, leads him to add genre borrowings which set up a misleading expectation of the kind of plot you're going to get and make individuals start behaving out of character, forcing the author into rationalisations at odds with the creative, intellectual and imaginative substance of the book."