Frequently, the characters, especially the minor ones, are "types": They are representative characters, not individuals.

Egaeus and Berenice are both representative characters.

Many rooms in the building has a representative character, and retains the original decoration (including: the main hall, stairway, conference).

Young-sim is a representative character of the early 1990s.

Presumably what he means is that at that point they will have lost their representative character and become embodiments of the divine.

With that in mind, the character descriptions apply to both the representative characters as well as the physicists themselves.

At first they took an active part in Catholic affairs, though consistently disclaiming any representative character.

A representative character can be observed in a room with a rococo-classical furnace.

His grand weapon, namely the millions whom he directed, he owed to the representative character which clothed him.

This two-hour special looks at some representative characters and the industry that created them.