leading character
Example Sentences
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And they have turned Mr. Reddé into a leading character of French demonstrations, a kind of “Where’s Waldo?” who invariably appears alongside unionists blowing foghorns and battalions of armor-clad riot police.
From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2023
“The Great Jheri Curl Debate” presented a new challenge: writing a leading character outside her own race.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2022
“It’s really cool to be able to play a leading character like that,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2022
“It was a very sweet leading character to play, because the character doesn’t know what’s going on and I didn’t either.”
From Washington Post • May 6, 2022
The persons are sometimes anonymous, sometimes are named while the name is not celebrated; more frequently the tribal culture-hero, demiurge, or god is the leading character in these stories.
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew
