Sentence examples for role of protagonist from inspiring English sources

In the movies of our own lives, McKee argues, we can take the role of protagonist.

As the drama progresses, it is the idealised German volk of Nuremberg who take on the role of protagonist.

It casts the former treasury secretary in the same role of protagonist that Mr. McNamara plays in "The Fog of War".

The role of protagonist had been ceded to his students: lock jawed legacies, tattooed scions, earbudded athletes, third-year sophomores in pajamas texting under the table.

Aar, a UN worker, is murdered and, in a subtle shifting of narrative, his half-sister, Bella, assumes the role of protagonist in his place.

He described his dual role of protagonist and director as "a negotiation between my cynicism and my romanticism" — in other words, between the sometimes callow figure on screen and the more thoughtful and generous one making the movie.

Was I stealing the show, denying them the role of protagonists they were desperately claiming for themselves?

The role of the designer is fundamental but remains hidden, unrecognisable: renown is sacrificed to a form of ethics that grants users the role of protagonists, thereby refusing the logics of branding, be it connected with an economic, institutional, political or personal subject.

(... Pizzolatto, if you're reading this, do not disappoint us and please, immediately start contacting them for the role of protagonists in the third season. PS: Know that we love you anyway!).

Soon they are convinced: Something in there has lured their father into the mythological world, and now they, too, must venture into cyberspace, assume the roles of protagonists in a cross-section of world mythology and find him.

But, as in this book, it also means there is automatically tension because of the dual role of that protagonist as investigator and, often, potential victim.