damsel
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Her performance adds an additional layer of mystery in that it is never quite clear whether she is a manipulative femme fatale, a damsel in distress or a woman just trying to figure herself out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
Dunst, 41, says it is refreshing her character is the lead in an action film and not a "damsel in distress".
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2024
“There are tales of chivalry, where the heroic knight saves the damsel in distress,” a young woman’s voice intones as “Damsel” begins.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
But also, it has a lot of humor surrounding it, because it's that damsel in distress kind of character.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2023
Possibly my crippling clumsiness was seen as endearing rather than pathetic, casting me as a damsel in distress.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
The idea that the sheriff is a gentle helper of damsels in distress, rather than some sort of code enforcer.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2024
None of my family are damsels in distress.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2023
One of the ovals’ long-tressed damsels is encountering a rearing leopard, and the other seems unfazed by a yellow serpent.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2023
In Act 2, they reprise the song, this time as the husbands of two of those damsels, Rapunzel and Cinderella.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023
We would ride down villains who robbed stagecoaches or in other ways threatened damsels in distress, whom we could save and, of course, never kiss, but ride off at the end of our imagination.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
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Holding Up the Universe
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