Sentence examples for protagonist plays from inspiring English sources

In Plato and in the dialogues of Pascal's Provinciales (1656 57; "Provincial Letters"), the protagonist plays with the naiveté of his opponents, who always end by surrendering.

These are programs about unlikely heroes — more specifically, unlikely heroines — that use a combination of documentary footage and framed sequences borrowed from traditional scripted programming, in which the protagonist plays herself, living her life, some hybrid of simulacrum and truth.

Although there is satirical potential in songs such as Money Becomes King (about a rock'n'roller who is compromised by sponsorship) or the title track (the protagonist "plays what he wants to play and says what he wants to say"), the soporific blandness of the music undercuts it time and again.

John Berryman was one of the first critics to interpret the novel as a modern wasteland through which the protagonist plays the role of an Everyman.

But Zink's references to cages and songs are fewer than her observations about the natural environment and the role her protagonist plays in it.

Its protagonist (played by Macha Méril) is a married woman who is having an adulterous affair.

Its European protagonist – played by Willem Dafoe – is a mercenary seeking the elusive Tasmanian tiger.

Like Parker's Turner, Tarantino's protagonist, played by Jamie Foxx, has bloody retribution in mind.

"Raylan Givens is more of a true-blue hero," Mr. Yost said of his show's protagonist, played by Timothy Olyphant.

"He is probably the catalyst for Liz Lemon" — the show's romantically hapless protagonist, played by Tina Fey — "finding love".

The new book retells the original story from the perspective of the male protagonist played by Dornan.