principal character
Example Sentences
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It’s also in this house where Mario Conde, the principal character of Padura’s work, was born.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 22, 2024
Its principal character, non-Jewish, is a magazine writer, who is instructed to approach the whole issue, or problem, from a new angle.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2023
Josephus is a principal character in the film's Roman Empire segment.
From Salon • Jun. 20, 2022
They frequently echo their great poetical-theological forebear, Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” in that the principal character journeys through a highly symbolic landscape, meeting strange semi-allegorical personages before finally attaining a moment of epiphany, self-understanding or revelation.
From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2021
Epidicus.—This play is so called from the name of a slave who sustains a principal character in the comedy, and on whose rogueries most of the incidents depend.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John
