heroine
Example Sentences
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"To be here now, just in touch with the fastest women, That is huge. I am proud of that," insisted Shiffrin after finishing nearly a second slower than Italy's double gold heroine Federica Brignone.
From Barron's
He also enlisted 10 composers, each of whom was assigned an eight-minute scene reflecting a decade in the heroine’s life.
Fennell seems to imagine Catherine as a proto-Scarlett in “Gone With the Wind,” except that Brontë didn’t give her flawed heroine as many options.
From Los Angeles Times
He’s a little too awful for me, but I do think we could use less sanitized heroes and heroines in modern love stories.
From Los Angeles Times
But it’s to Raimi and the actors’ credit that they manage to make such an odious character as Bradley actually sympathetic — and so clear a heroine as Linda complex and thorny.
From Los Angeles Times
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