Sentence examples for heroic protagonist from inspiring English sources

The novel turns on a shocking revelation, near its end, about its apparently heroic protagonist.

The adventure is a fantasy come true in which Michiel is the heroic protagonist of his own drama.

For every heroic protagonist -- like Alan Shepard in "The Right Stuff" -- there is a disturbing, eccentric turn, like his glad-handing drug dealer in last year's "Training Day".

Possibly the first "eco-epic", it takes environmentalism to a whole new audience through its its heroic protagonist, an ex-marine turned eco-warrior.

The costumes are by Sylvia Taalsohn Nolan; Mr. Melendez's look recalls the more heroic protagonist of Tudor's jungle-story "Shadowplay" (1967, to be revived next week by American Ballet Theater).

A long-running series based on a 16th-century Chinese myth called Journey to the West, Monkey told the story of a pilgrimage across Asia by the heroic protagonist of the title and his eccentric team of cohorts.

This being a movie, the audience is naturally on the side of the heroic protagonists.

But he decided to protect the reality and subvert the usual conventions of hard-charging, heroic protagonists.

Those who wield the largest guns, be they heroic protagonists or disturbed antagonists, become larger than life, omnipotent.

When you start enjoying Wodehouse's work for it's own sake, the wonderful phrases, the multi-layered (even if similar) plots, the endearing if not exactly heroic protagonists are all as you would expect from any of his many books.

Where Chandler, like Hammett, centered most of his novels and stories on the character of the private eye, Cain featured less heroic protagonists and focused more on psychological exposition than on crime solving; the Cain approach has come to be identified with a subset of the hardboiled genre dubbed "noir fiction".