Sentence examples for isolated protagonist from inspiring English sources
The film gives us a quintessentially Polanskian me-against-the-world setup, in which an isolated protagonist succumbs to increasing paranoia.
In these short narratives, as in his ample novels (the best known are "Birdsong" and "Charlotte Gray"), an isolated protagonist wanders through a richly recreated past — or, in one case here, a thinly imagined future — yearning for human connection.
The past three features I directed focused on a single, isolated protagonist: The Broken Tower (about Hart Crane), Sal (about the last day of the actor Sal Mineo's life), and Cormac McCarthy's Child of God (about a murderous necrophiliac in the woods).
These stories, for the most part, aren't about building a world or nurturing relationships, they are about isolated protagonists who find it hard to trust others.
But then, to our shock, the director abandons the one-shots that isolate the protagonists of the drama, and gives us simultaneously, in the same wide-angle shot, the parents, the boy, and the beast.
The "Apu" trilogy provided a microcosm of the changing society of modern India by progressing from a tightly knit family in a primitive village through migration to the cities and ending with the educated protagonist nearly isolated.
In McEwan's early fiction, in his strange, experimental short stories and novellas, with their isolated, sexually deviant male protagonists, he wrote from the outside in, as it were.
But in the battle between head and heart there remains a Tin Man-sholed holeavingving the viewer smiling wryly at the thought-provoking conceits while remaining as emotionally isolated as the movie's protagonist.
Scorsese stays with Rodrigues, who becomes the movie's protagonist, ministering to the isolated Christians while also bringing danger upon them.
The protagonist (Knowles) reminisces on an isolated beach about a relationship that went wrong.
Most of the other stories are told laconically, with the protagonists thinking and speaking in muffled tones, isolated from their own feelings.
