front runner

But scrutiny of his life, in books and film, highlights how unconventional he was—a point reinforced in Brendan O’Meara’s well-crafted “The Front Runner: The Life of Steve Prefontaine.”

“The Front Runner” depicts Prefontaine as smug but sensitive, and it keeps a narrow focus on his immediate sports circle.

It is one of the most competitive selections for Labour in which Owain Williams was thought by some to be a bit of a front runner.

With Kamala Harris out of the California governor’s race, other candidates are jockeying to be seen as the new front runner.

The other was the vigorous argument between abstraction and figuration as front runner of the avant-garde, then being hard-fought in the American art world.