Sentence examples for spirited heroine from inspiring English sources

Orphaned but spirited heroine?

That enthusiasm is evident in her spirited heroine, Freckleface Strawberry, first introduced to readers in 2007.

Ms. Dvorovenko's dynamism defined her spirited heroine; Every arrow-sharp jete added to the brio of her comic acting.

At the beginning of Anthony Quinn's new novel his spirited heroine tries to explain the problems with an unpublished manuscript written by her friend, Nancy.

Chris is by turns a spirited heroine, a trollish underground woman, a feminist social critic, and a phenomenologist of romantic longing.

Her portrait is terrific; Mr. Foster makes this shrewd, commonsensical and witty woman his spirited heroine and, until sheer fatigue set in, an astringent to Yeatsian sublimity.

Professional men and clever women have always lined up to say just how much they relish Heyer's world of rakes, pistols at dawn and spirited heroines with a penchant for cross-dressing.

Charlotte is not, as Ms. Conant writes, "the least likable of his spirited heroines"; she is not, in fact, the novel's heroine.

Jessie Austrian (who directed, with Ben Steinfeld and Emily Youngg make spirited heroines, but the finest sequences feature Andy Grotelueschen, as the clownish Launce, and Zachary Fine, as his beloved, uncouth dog.

A student of Andrew Motion's with several books of poetry to her name (a name that calls to mind the patron saint of literary street urchins), Fagan has given us one of the most spirited heroines to cuss, kiss, bite and generally break the nose of the English novel in many a moon.

But for the demanding part of Charlotte Stant in an adaptation of "The Golden Bowl" -- arguably the least likable of his spirited heroines and the most challenging of Henry James's novels -- Mr. Ivory and his producing partner, Ismail Merchant, were convinced that something much rarer in Hollywood was needed, something like a true screen goddess.