Sentence examples for before the protagonist from inspiring English sources

The car topples several times before the protagonist emerges unscathed but a mite agitated.

Those I've gone on could be assembled into a montage of forgettable dinners before the protagonist stumbles into the right person.

When Mr. Pelecanos plots a story, "I'll introduce the antagonist before the protagonist even, just to get that out of the way," he said.

Or a place where hopes are dashed on the rocks of isolated despair, as in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, before the protagonist eventually finds inner strength and friendship in Friday?

In The Enemy of the People the walls are blackboards, furniture drawn on to them in chalk, then scrawled over, crossed out, defaced and, brilliantly, just before the protagonist Dr Stockmann's big moment, whitewashed.

In fact it is a subtle, psychological analysis of an unfulfilled life unravelling before the protagonist's eyes.

Marcia Magill of Films in Review said that while Jaws "is eminently worth seeing for its second half", she felt that before the protagonists' pursuit of the shark the film was "often flawed by its busyness".

When that impression fails to materialise, in "A Little Before Seven", the protagonist presses down on the worktop to give herself "a little more density".

Around the time McNeile killed off the Carl Peterson character in The Final Count (1926), he also introduced the character Ronald Standish, who first appeared in "The Saving Clause" (1927) and "Tiny Carteret" (1930) before becoming the protagonist in two collections of short stories, Ronald Standish (1933) and Ask for Ronald Standish (1936).

Hitchcock kills off Marion, the protagonist, before the halfway mark.

In "Malcolm," which was published almost a decade before Loving v. Virginia, the protagonist marries a powerful black woman.