damsel

“Taylor often played the part of a damsel in distress or an overlooked romantic interest using theatrical costuming,” writes Sarah Chapelle in “Taylor Swift Style” — out Oct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2024

The minute Furiosa starts gnawing on her captor’s fuel line, though, Miller makes it clear that this wee captive is no damsel in distress.

From New York Times ● May 15, 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

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

The offspring thus produced from the conjunction of deity and damsel hath a nature intermixed, the two species commingled, and perhaps, like the mule, is incapable itself of generation.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

So, Ichikawa played beautiful damsels, as well as witches, samurai and even animals throughout his career.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 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

"I got myself into action films because I didn't believe that women were damsels in distress. Their stories need to be told correctly," Yeoh says.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2023

That was something I always kept an eye on, I never wanted the girls to be over-sexualized, or victims, or damsels in distress.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2021

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