Sentence examples for passive protagonist from inspiring English sources

He's a passive protagonist.

Yet while New York is rendered in evocative splendor, Sacha proves a somewhat passive protagonist, never really using those abilities that got him his job in the first place.

But this particular egomaniac, Ben (a lovely name that I have previously associated only with the meek and humble of the earth), is even less conscious of his toxic character flaws than Jack, the passive protagonist of "Mourner".

Set in Istanbul, L'Immortelle's passive protagonist (played by Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, co-founder of Cahiers du cinèma) is ofsessed with a beautiful woman he follows from ferry to ferry, mosque to mosque and hotel to hotel around the Bosphorus.

Donnie Darko was a mostly passive protagonist struggling against both the oppressive system of high school and the levers of fate that he could only pull at the film's climax.

Although some shows about journalists, like "Lou Grant," have succeeded, many others have failed, as Mr. Wolf has said, largely because reporters are passive protagonists, unlike policemen or doctors.

But then he drew a triangle on an overhead projector slide: at the top was "Classical Design" (stories with causality, closed endings, linear time, an external conflict, a single, active protagonist); in the other corners he wrote "Minimalism" (open endings, passive protagonists) and "Anti-Structure" (coincidence, nonlinear time).

They emphatically said that they did not want to be passive protagonists.

Aaliya's taste in literature is so wonderfully varied, and Alameddine writes with such lucid and swift-moving prose, that his novel never loses momentum, even though Aaliya herself is the most passive of protagonists.

Milo is the most watchful and passive of classic protagonists, the hero as freshman.

It is, for that reason, a profound relief to meet Hazel, the passive, hapless, magnificently abject protagonist of Alissa Nutting's deranged new comic novel, "Made for Love".