damsel
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See recent attempts by Disney to broaden the scope of its Marvel and Star Wars franchises, or Nintendo this month transforming its popular damsel in distress Princess Zelda into a hero.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2024
The minute Furiosa starts gnawing on her captor’s fuel line, though, Miller makes it clear that this wee captive is no damsel in distress.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2024
Dunst, 41, says it is refreshing her character is the lead in an action film and not a "damsel in distress".
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2024
But also, it has a lot of humor surrounding it, because it's that damsel in distress kind of character.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2023
An old servant would mutter, “At last, a damsel worthy of our prince.”
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
None of my family are damsels in distress.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2023
One of the ovals’ long-tressed damsels is encountering a rearing leopard, and the other seems unfazed by a yellow serpent.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2023
In Act 2, they reprise the song, this time as the husbands of two of those damsels, Rapunzel and Cinderella.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023
"I got myself into action films because I didn't believe that women were damsels in distress. Their stories need to be told correctly," Yeoh says.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2023
In Gran’s stories, damsels in distress were always trapped in towers.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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