leading character
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“So many times throughout this process, I’ve definitely had moments where I’m like, ‘Am I out of my mind by having this person to be our leading character?’
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
“Energy in the Executive is a leading character in the definition of good government,” Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 70.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2022
“It’s really cool to be able to play a leading character like that,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2022
As the leading character in a musical, Caroline is unique: Titanically dour, she seeks to repel all sympathy her circumstances might invite.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2021
Some copies of the first edition misprint Macheath, the name of the leading character in Gay’s “Beggar’s Opera.”
From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob
