Sentence examples for main characters lie from inspiring English sources

At the finale of "Hamlet," most of the main characters lie either poisoned or stabbed to death, scattered around the palace hall like so many toppled chairs.

In "Tongues of Stone" – an autobiographical short story she wrote in 1955 and which she entered for the Mademoiselle fiction contest – Plath wrote of how her main character lay in her bed listening to her mother's breathing, a sound so annoying she felt like getting out of bed and strangling her.

It's less easy to place the other two usages but a good bet would be Tootsie (1982) and The Firm (1993), two Pollack-directed films in which the main characters live a lie.

The story and its characters lie forgotten.

Picturing the main character, Max, lying in the overgrown lawn had me imagining the world from this perspective.

Early in Kathleen Collins's 1982 film, "Losing Ground," the main character, Sara, lies in an embrace with her wily husband, Victor.

More corn, until a minute or so before the end, when a couple of people in store-bought monster masks jumped out of the corn, causing the film's main character to lay down and die of fright (I think?).

A perfect example is a scene in one of my favourite movies, Over the Edge, where the main character, Carl, is lying in bed, blasting Cheap Trick's Surrender in his headphones.

Its greatest interest lies in its suggestion that none of its main characters are immune to romantic illusion.

Much of the film's genius lies in the ambiguous feelings we have towards the main characters.

All four main characters are pursuing a vision of freedom that can be claimed only through a lie.