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protagonist
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  • These brief vignettes were told from the point of view of 2112's anonymous protagonist.  (source)
    protagonist = main character
  • The protagonist was a Jew, and he was presented in a positive light.  (source)
    protagonist = main character in a work of fiction
  • It wasn't An Imperial Affliction, but the protagonist, Staff Sergeant Max Mayhem, was vaguely likable despite killing, by my count, no fewer than 118 individuals in 284 pages.  (source)
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  • Shortly after Everett's disappearance his father suggested that the boy had probably been inspired to call himself Nemo by Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, a book Everett read many times, in which the purehearted protagonist, Captain Nemo, flees civilization and severs his "every tie upon the earth."  (source)
    protagonist = main character in a work of fiction
  • Ironically, the greatest triumph for both, protagonists was the time they were forced to cooperate during the goblin insurgence.†  (source)
  • No doubt Anthony Burgess's protagonist has some high negatives.  (source)
  • At first he could get nowhere, in rooms where the proprietress would enter during the best moments of love and make all sorts of comments about the intimate charms of the protagonists.†  (source)
  • By establishing himself as the protagonist of his own story, he inspired me and countless other young people to see ourselves as capable of taking control of our own destinies, and to realize how each decision we make determines the course of our life stories.†  (source)
  • She reads all the time—in the halls, in the cafeteria—mostly novels with angsty protagonists: The Virgin Suicides, Catcher in the Rye, The Bell jar.†  (source)
  • Silence would fall, as in tragic plays of long ago when the doomed protagonist made an entrance, enveloped in his cloak of contagious bad news.†  (source)
  • The three chief protagonists in the Washington drama of 1850 had been colleagues in Congress as far back as 1813.†  (source)
  • If I had used Terminator Two, where the protagonist is a gun, I wouldn't have got those results.†  (source)
  • Some undefined sorrow was hidden in the hearts of the protagonists as they stood in silence beneath the leafless trees and when the moment of farewell had come the kiss, which had been withheld by one, was given by both.†  (source)
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