Sentence examples for a principal character from inspiring English sources

If this pianist has a principal character trait, it is a big, hearty and sometimes brutal relationship with her instrument.

"It would have had a children's chorus in it and would, of course, have had Janet Reno as a principal character".

Such is the fate of a principal character in The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins's robustly, enthrallingly clever bestseller, which appeared in 1860, just before Cameron started making her portraits.

Though Foucault's Pendulum offered a splendidly macabre denouement (with a principal character left hanging from a pendulum devised to demonstrate the rotation of the earth), the novel was reckoned to be rather too long, with opaque stretches.

— Before Ann Packer decided that Brody Mackay, a principal character in "Songs Without Words," her latest novel, would be a successful Silicon Valley high-tech executive, she had him working at a floundering start-up.

ROWLING: TEARS OF MS. FORTUNE -- J. K. Rowling, left, now richer than Queen Elizabeth II, says killing off a principal character in the hotly anticipated fifth volume of her Harry Potter saga took an emotional toll.

Even Martin Amis included a Sonderkommando principal character in his recent novel The Zone of Interest.

THE notion of a house, or more specifically a room, as the principal character in a novel is an odd one.

In the popular Netflix true crime series, "Making a Murderer," the principal character burned his cat alive.

NBC even briefly broadcast a sitcom, "My World and Welcome to It," whose principal character was a writer and cartoonist for a magazine called The Manhattanite.

In a letter to her publisher, Harold Warne, Potter characterized the principal character as "a well-behaved black Kitty cat, who leads rather a double life, and goes out hunting with a little gun on moonlight nights, dressed up like puss in boots".