hero/heroine
Example Sentences
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If “Surrounded” had carried through its overdetermined premise more assuredly, she’d have made a compelling hero/heroine here.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2023
But I also like Virginia Woolf’s hero/heroine Orlando, with whom I’ve always begun my undergraduate seminar in biography.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2018
Tilda Swinton's breakout role uses her androgynous looks to stunning effect as Virginia Woolf's hero/heroine.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2012
I was charged with interviewing Miss Welch in front of a packed house, prior to a screening of Myra Breckinridge, the cult camp catastrophe in which she plays the transgender hero/heroine of the title.
From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2012
And so begins another quality European detective drama: flawed hero/heroine, institutional cynicism and corruption, wheels within wheels.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2011
