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
Unlike “The Wrestler,” “Rimini” has little interest in redeeming its principal character, mainly because, in Seidl’s comprehensively dim view of the human species, redemption seems neither possible nor even necessary.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 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
The persons among whom this illustrious hypocrite performs the principal character, are traced with equal distinctness.
From Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
