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  • Ironically, the greatest triumph for both, protagonists was the time they were forced to cooperate during the goblin insurgence.†   (source)
  • My gold-draped protagonist was an indigenous suburban princess who drove a pink BMW, her rock-hard, surgically enhanced breasts jutting into the steering wheel, allowing her to drive hands-free, talking on her cell phone and teasing her frosted hair in the rearview mirror as she raced to the tanning salon.†   (source)
  • Helen, once a peripheral figure in these discussions, became the epicenter, instigator, and protagonist.†   (source)
  • It says Hiro Protagonist Last of the Freelance Hackers Greatest swordfighter in the world Stringer, Central Intelligence Corporation.†   (source)
  • He was always one of the protagonists, but always, as in almost everything he did, a secret protagonist.†   (source)
  • If I had used Terminator Two, where the protagonist is a gun, I wouldn't have got those results.†   (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)
  • "I understand the protagonist is not doing very well," the professor said, grimly.†   (source)
  • Susan St. Clair is not going to be the protagonist in a James Ashley novel.†   (source)
  • Pattyn, the protagonist in this book, comes to love rural Nevada, where the spirit of the Old West lives on in its people.†   (source)
  • One of these—an entry about watching a dog being beaten by a gang of children, written at the age of twelve—later inspired the most famous scene in The Remedy, when the protagonist, Jacob, leaves the apartment of a woman to whom he has just made love for the first time, and, standing in the shadows of a street lamp in the freezing cold, watches a dog being brutally kicked to death by two men.†   (source)
  • Opening the novel with the suicidal leap of the insurance agent, ending it with the protagonist's confrontational soar into danger, was meant to enclose the mystical but problematic one taken by the Solomon of the title.†   (source)
  • Downtrodden Americans gravitated strongly toward the Horatio Alger protagonist, the lowly bred Everyman who rises from anonymity and hopelessness.†   (source)
  • Besides, I thought, male novelists write about female protagonists all the time, so I will write about men.†   (source)
  • The grand finale will be a moment straight from the stage, some stunning dramatic conclusion when antagonist and protagonist meet face-to-face, settling their differences once and for all.†   (source)
  • Thus in the end, upon analysis of these keys, it was not at all difficult to explain Walter Durrfeld's role as protagonist in Sophie's terrifying yet exquisite Liebestraum.†   (source)
  • Perhaps in every life there has to be, in addition to the other protagonists, a secret, unknown force, an almost symbolic figure who comes un-summoned to the rescue, and perhaps in mine Evgraf, my brother, plays the part of this hidden benefactor?†   (source)
  • Then I reasoned further that the rat could have just as easily been on my head—then a flashback to a scene from Orwell's 1984, where there is a description of a starved rat chewing through the eyeball of the protagonist.†   (source)
  • Turning his face at last into the face of the victim, for he had never seen him before now, he would tower up with the sudden height of a man no longer the tale teller but the speechless protagonist, silent at last, one degree nearer the hero.†   (source)
  • The three chief protagonists in the Washington drama of 1850 had been colleagues in Congress as far back as 1813.†   (source)
  • These brief vignettes were told from the point of view of 2112's anonymous protagonist.   (source)
    protagonist = main character
  • The latter is a reference to Tolstoy's protagonist and alter ego, Pierre Bezuhov, altruistic, questing, illegitimately born.   (source)
    protagonist = main character in a work of fiction
  • I can bring a discussion of A Clockwork Orange to silence by suggesting that we consider Alex, its protagonist, as a Christ figure.   (source)
  • McCandless is, finally, just a pale 20th-century burlesque of London's protagonist, who freezes because he ignores advice and commits big-time hubris   (source)
  • In the ending of A Farewell to Arms (1929), Hemingway, having killed off Frederic Henry's lover during childbirth, sends the grieving protagonist out of the hospital into, you guessed it, rain.   (source)
  • I wrapped my right hand around the joystick and began to play, guiding my pizza-shaped protagonist through one maze after another.   (source)
    protagonist = main character
  • Here, the protagonist psychologically makes the deal but then looks at himself and at the true cost and recovers in time to reject the devil's—Mr. Lindner's—offer.   (source)
    protagonist = main character in a work of fiction
  • On the TV, Halliday guides his square protagonist into the game's secret room, where the words CREATED BY WARREN ROBINETT appear in the center of the screen.   (source)
    protagonist = main character
  • In Henry Green's first novel, Blindness (1926), his schoolboy protagonist is blinded by a freak accident when a small boy throws a rock through a railway carriage window.   (source)
    protagonist = main character in a work of fiction
  • The protagonist of Burgess's novel is a fifteen-year-old leader of a gang whose specialties are theft with violence, violence without theft, and rape, to which he refers as "the old in-out in-out."   (source)
  • The blind specialist gets into a heated argument with the protagonist, who accuses the specialist of fraud, and is accused in turn of being the worst sort of malefactor, one who by the way is blind to what really matters.   (source)
  • Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.   (source)
  • You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick.†   (source)
  • Have you killed a lot of people with swords, Mr. Protagonist?†   (source)
  • But he was an implacable protagonist in that life.†   (source)
  • And they're all staring at Hiro Protagonist, who is just staring back at them.†   (source)
  • Mr. Protagonist, we got a call a few minutes ago from a friend of yours named Y.T. What's wrong?†   (source)
  • CALL HIRO PROTAGONIST SECURITY ASSOCIATES FOR A FREE INITIAL CONSULTATION.†   (source)
  • Welcome to Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong, Mr. Protagonist," the security system says through a PA.†   (source)
  • Number One, the name and the photograph on the top of the list, belongs to Hiroalci Protagonist.†   (source)
  • "You Hiro Protagonist?" she mouths, basically inaudible over the ridiculous noise of the firefight.†   (source)
  • Sometimes the quest fails or is not taken up by the protagonist.†   (source)
  • Some of this may be unconscious, as it is in the case of O'Brien's protagonist.†   (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)
  • After Aisha introduced the protagonist, Safiya provided the setting and central conflict, and Nademah took it from there.†   (source)
  • He was always one of the protagonists, but always, as in almost everything he did, a secret protagonist.†   (source)
  • For the rest of the year, Fermina Daza did not attend any civic or social ceremonies, not even the Christmas celebrations, in which she and her husband had always been illustrious protagonists.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza had not yet finished his sixty days of seclusion when Justice published a front-page story, complete with photographs of the two protagonists, about the alleged secret love affair between Dr. Juvenal Urbino and Lucrecia del Real del Obispo.†   (source)
  • At night, when the boat was anchored and most of the passengers walked the decks in despair, he perused the illustrated novels he knew almost by heart under the carbide lamp in the dining room, which was the only one kept burning until dawn, and the dramas he had read so often regained their original magic when he replaced the imaginary protagonists with people he knew in real life, reserving for himself and Fermina Daza the roles of star-crossed lovers.†   (source)
  • Life in the house began after noon, when his friends the birds got up as bare as the day they were born, so that when Florentino Ariza arrived after work he found a palace populated by naked nymphs who shouted their commentaries on the secrets of the city, which they knew because of the faithlessness of the protagonists.†   (source)
  • It reminds Y.T. of the way her life has been since the fateful night of the Hiro Protagonist pizza adventure.†   (source)
  • But his real reason for being in Flatland is that Hiro Protagonist, last of the freelance hackers, is hacking.†   (source)
  • At first, Walter LeeYounger, the protagonist, confidently turns down the offer, believing that the family's money (in the form of a life insurance payment after his father's recent death) is secure.†   (source)
  • "Hiro Protagonist," the gargoyle says as Hiro finally tracks him down in the darkness beside a shanty.†   (source)
  • Items (b) and (c) should be considered together: someone tells our protagonist, our hero, who need not look very heroic, to go somewhere and do something.†   (source)
  • Nabokov has to make his middle-aged protagonist, Humbert Humbert, depraved, certainly, but part of the revulsion we feel at his interest in his underage stepdaughter Lolita lies in the way our sympathy is co-opted by this monster narrating the story.†   (source)
  • She is thinking, oddly enough, about what it would be like to climb into the back of the car with Hiro Protagonist for a while.†   (source)
  • At the end of the novel Lipsha Morrissey, who's as close to a protagonist as the novel comes, observes that once all the northern prairie was an ocean, and we realize that we've been watching the drama play out over the remnants of that sea.†   (source)
  • He used to live in it, staying on the street or in various Snooze 'n' Cruise franchises, until he met up with Hiro Protagonist.†   (source)
  • Hiro Protagonist and Vitaly Chernobyl, roommates, are chilling out in their home, a spacious 20-by30 in a U-Stor-It in Inglewood, California.†   (source)
  • By invoking not a generic figure—"I am just not cut out to be a tragic hero," for instance—but the most famous tragic hero, Hamlet, Eliot provides an instantly recognizable situation for his protagonist and adds an element of characterization that says more about his self-image than would a whole page of description.†   (source)
  • The structure of the novel utilizes the various episodes of the ancient epic, although ironically—Odysseus's trip to the underworld, for instance, becomes a trip to the cemetery; his encounter with Circe, an enchantress who turns men into swine, becomes a trip to a notorious brothel by the protagonists.†   (source)
  • With Hiro Protagonist seemingly gone from the stage, the hackers turn their attention toward the giant construction rising up out of the egg.†   (source)
  • A black car, alive with nasty lights, whines past her the other way, closing in on the hapless Hiro Protagonist.†   (source)
  • In a long series of such places, Hiro Protagonist was speed-raised like a mutant hothouse orchid flourishing under the glow of a thousand Buy 'n' Fly security spotlights.†   (source)
  • At the moment, Vitaly Chernobyl is stretched out on a futon, quiescent, and Hiro Protagonist is sitting crosslegged at a low table, Nipponese style, consisting of a cargo pallet set on cmderbiocks.†   (source)
  • People like Hiro Protagonist.†   (source)
  • Hiro Protagonist?†   (source)
  • There are four men in the life raft: Hiro Protagonist, seW employed stringer for the Central Intelligence Corporation, whose practice used to be limited to so-called "dry" operations, meaning that he sat around and soaked up information and then later spat it back into the Library, the CIC database, without ever actually doing anything.†   (source)
  • I'm Hiro Protagonist.†   (source)
  • Hiro Protagonist?†   (source)
  • To avoid relying on my own perceptions, I interviewed most of the protagonists at great length and on multiple occasions.†   (source)
  • The sentence starts with "North Carolina" and closes with "Lake Superior"—geographical locations that suggest a journey from south to north—a direction common for black immigration and in the literature about it, but which is reversed here since the protagonist has to go south to mature.†   (source)
  • As an African American student "who was cutting it," as he'd say-much less the protagonist of a book many of those in corporate diversity departments had embraced-he was a prize.†   (source)
  • After Ceremony was published, some readers remarked on my male protagonist and many male characters, something of a novelty for female novelists in the English language.†   (source)
  • Before I began the funny story about Harley, I twice tried to develop a young female protagonist to be the main character of a novel; but I found I was too self-conscious and failed to allow my fictional woman to behave independently of my image of myself.†   (source)
  • And Moscow, right below them and stretching into the distance, the author's native city, in which he had spent half his life-Moscow now struck them not as the stage of the events connected with him but as the main protagonist of a long story, the end of which they had reached that evening, book in hand.†   (source)
  • All the major protagonists of the year stood reverently as Judge Street cleared his throat, shuffled a few papers, then brought the court to order.†   (source)
  • Thinking of this holy city and of the entire earth, of the still-living protagonists of this story, and their children, they were filled with tenderness and peace, and they were enveloped by the unheard music of happiness that flowed all about them and into the distance.†   (source)
  • The world was very different now Mrs. Brown was perhaps the most tragic of all the protagonists in the masque of Yamacraw.†   (source)
  • She could have had no such experience at all, and there was neither reason for the scene nor any possible protagonist: he knew that she knew that.†   (source)
  • He saw The impassioned, pigmy fist Clenched cloudward and defiant, The pride that would prevail, the doomed protagonist Grappling the ghostly giant Arthur said: "Are you rested now?†   (source)
  • Their appearance confirmed the impression that the show had been staged regardless of expense, and emphasized its resemblance to one of those "costume-plays" in which the protagonists walk through the passions without displacing a drapery.†   (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)
  • Lockhart's Life of Napoleon (cover wanting, marginal annotations, minimising victories, aggrandising defeats of the protagonist).†   (source)
  • Jefferson, its protagonist, was the hero of the populace, but he was not of the populace himself, nor did he ever quite trust it.†   (source)
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