principal character
Example Sentences
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It’s also in this house where Mario Conde, the principal character of Padura’s work, was born.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
Its principal character, non-Jewish, is a magazine writer, who is instructed to approach the whole issue, or problem, from a new angle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
Josephus is a principal character in the film's Roman Empire segment.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2022
They frequently echo their great poetical-theological forebear, Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” in that the principal character journeys through a highly symbolic landscape, meeting strange semi-allegorical personages before finally attaining a moment of epiphany, self-understanding or revelation.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2021
It would have to be tragic, but only indirectly; nothing, I had decided, should happen to my principal character beyond a young moment of supreme romance.
From San Crist?bal de la Habana by Hergesheimer, Joseph