Sentence examples for protagonist like from inspiring English sources

The protagonist, like Gibson, is also religious: a devout Seventh Day Adventist.

Its protagonist, like Dostoyevsky's underground man, begins and ends in a literal hole — a filthy room, somewhere near Harlem.

The protagonist, like those of Marshall's other works, has an epiphany after confronting her personal and cultural past.

When I pick up a novel with a semi-lupine protagonist, like Glen Duncan's "The Last Werewolf," I'm expecting darkness, but not "Heart of Darkness".

In "Prometheus," the protagonist, like his mythical forebear, has his liver eaten out every day by a giant bird, though a griffon vulture rather than an eagle.

Its protagonist, like Wister and Wister's old Harvard classmate Teddy Roosevelt, was a transplanted Easterner whose manhood was fashioned in the West.

His protagonist likes the dialect of May's native Saxony.

After its release, Hendrix offered another explanation: "He [the song's protagonist] likes this girl so much, that he doesn't know what [state] he's in, ya know.

Night and Day (1919) answers Leonard's The Wise Virgins, in which he had his Leonard-like protagonist lose the Virginia-like beloved and end up in a conventional marriage.

Thereafter, Ellison's novel offers a template for Nguyen's; its unnamed narrator-protagonist, like Ellison's, recounts and attempts to make sense of his variously doubled life from a position of concealment – in this case, as a prisoner forced to make a political confession.

The few women protagonists like Jane Tennison also tend to be, she said, "lonely, solitary people".