heroines
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“I was using Riefenstahl to point out, or so I thought, that these heroes and heroines were straight out of Nazi propaganda,” Verhoeven told The Guardian in 2018.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
Few heroines of English literature have as distinct a voice as Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
You can’t help rooting for Colleen Hoover heroines, bless their bruised hearts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026
Unlike such Pixar heroines as Riley in the “Inside Out” movies and Mei in “Turning Red,” she isn’t especially relatable, and the script by Jesse Andrews relies heavily on dull slapstick and broad gags.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
There were new ones, too, sagas about the heroes and heroines of Korea.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
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