Sentence examples for central hero from inspiring English sources

Part of the problem with the movie, Mr. Johnson acknowledged in December, was the lack of a central hero.

Thus, he earned the gratitude of pagan intellectuals, who were enamoured of the past of free Greece; and Ammianus made him the central hero of his history.

That political despair seems built, in no small part, on the way the series can see no comfortable gender role for its central hero.

The tone and the pace are set by Jed Bartlet, an exemplary use of the charismatic central hero, a phenomenon which some stories can do without, but without which this story would be dead.

Mr. Spielberg, who was born in 1946, said the seed that became "The Pacific" was planted in his childhood, when he was confused by the disparity between the formulaic war films he would watch — central hero, romance, defining battlefield moment — and the stories he would hear from his father and an uncle, who both served in the Pacific.

It promised to draw on a series of classic games worked on by the team for inspiration: "Take the central hero, memorable companions and the epic exploration of Baldur's Gate, add in the fun, intense combat and dungeon diving of Icewind Dale, and tie it all together with the emotional writing and mature thematic exploration of Planescape: Torment".

The central heroes were the Justice Society of America – a version of the Justice League whose members could take different paths: age, marry, have children, die – who frequently interacted with the "real" versions of the heroes.

He lighted the bulb in Major League Baseball's brain, saying the sport had used the doomed Gehrig as one of its central heroes for seven decades, and now it was time to give something back.

There is even, perhaps, whispers of Woolf's Jacob's Room: our central, enigmatic hero (a naïve actor called Nelson) is reconstructed by the fragmentary accounts of others, including a not unimpartial narrator.

Simon's stretch of 42nd Street boasts no central Scorsese hero, but it does take the purview of those formerly relegated to scenery by Vinyl and its ilk: the overwhelmingly black, female, and lower-class characters who occupy the sex trade.

But are top central bankers heroes, as Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, described them a year ago for their resolve in adopting unconventional policies since the financial crisis?