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
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 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
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