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protagonist
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    The protagonist was a Jew, and he was presented in a positive light.  (source)
    protagonist = main character in a work of fiction
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    These brief vignettes were told from the point of view of 2112's anonymous protagonist.  (source)
    protagonist = main character
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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
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    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)
    protagonist = main character in a work of fiction
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    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)
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    No doubt Anthony Burgess's protagonist has some high negatives.  (source)
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    The three chief protagonists in the Washington drama of 1850 had been colleagues in Congress as far back as 1813.†  (source)
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    Susan St. Clair is not going to be the protagonist in a James Ashley novel.†  (source)
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    Ironically, the greatest triumph for both, protagonists was the time they were forced to cooperate during the goblin insurgence.†  (source)
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    And they're all staring at Hiro Protagonist, who is just staring back at them.†  (source)
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    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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    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)
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    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)
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