antihero

Example Sentences

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Gilligan also created “Pluribus” as a counterweight to the antihero era he helped define by contributing two unforgettable linchpins, Walter White and Saul Goodman.

From Salon

Elba, ever watchable, makes for a nicely conflicted antihero, torn between toeing the line and using unconventional methods — such as threatening to tattoo the eyeball of a reluctant witness — to extract information.

From Washington Post

And that ambivalence defines the play’s elusive antihero: Sidney’s impulses are benign, but he is slow to grasp the needs of others, particularly Iris, an aspiring actress yearning for feminist self-sufficiency.

From Washington Post

I always love the antihero, and that's the character that I was thinking about earlier.

From Salon

In true 19th-century fashion, “Danton’s Death” is a clash between “great men,” heroes and antiheroes, who frequently launch into lyrical monologues about blood and death.

From New York Times