leading character
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And they have turned Mr. Reddé into a leading character of French demonstrations, a kind of “Where’s Waldo?” who invariably appears alongside unionists blowing foghorns and battalions of armor-clad riot police.
From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2023
“The Great Jheri Curl Debate” presented a new challenge: writing a leading character outside her own race.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2022
“It’s really cool to be able to play a leading character like that,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2022
“It was a very sweet leading character to play, because the character doesn’t know what’s going on and I didn’t either.”
From Washington Post • May 6, 2022
The leading character, Wilhelmine, is, like most characters which are chosen and built up to exemplify a preconceived theory, quite unconvincing.
From Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Hewett-Thayer, Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman)