Sentence examples for nominal hero from inspiring English sources

(Steinbeck was unapologetic about certain socialist views, and the book's nominal hero, Tom Joad, says he's "bolshevisty").

The novel's nominal hero decided to battle a machine and won, losing his life in the process.

Prissy Rick is still the show's nominal "hero," but the only character left to root for is Daryl (Norman Reedus), a redneck with a crossbow.

Turns out the best way to kill a zombie sheep is to stage an impromptu barbecue, as our nominal hero combusts the rabid flock's flatulence with a flying Zippo.

Here are six reasons why: Beverly Hills 90210 was famously home to the biggest bad girl of them all, teen queen Shannen Doherty, a notorious diva-in-training, whose character Brenda Walsh, twin sister of hockey-loving nominal hero and proto-bro Brandon, inspired internet hate campaigns before the internet was really even a thing.

None of the humans are all that interesting, even the nominal hero Richard Benjamin.

The book's nominal heroes, the country's Westernized elite, finally figure out what has happened (by kidnapping a Politburo member and forcing him to tell all).

Over the past 20 years, the deranged and thwarted Bollywood stalker has evolved from nominal villain to an outright hero.

"Charlie experiences what almost every teenage hero does in an American movie about nominal outsiders," Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times.

Buoyed by these two and several other self-identified nonconformists, including a sexual steamroller, Mary Elizabeth (a lively Mae Whitman, Charlieexperienceses what almost every teenage hero does in an American movie about nominal outsiders: he finds his tribe and then himself.

Like most American animated movies, it centers on a plucky hero (softly voiced by Matthew Broderick) who, against the nominal odds (though, really, the odds are always stacked in his favor), overcomes adversity of some kind.