heroines
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“I was using Riefenstahl to point out, or so I thought, that these heroes and heroines were straight out of Nazi propaganda,” Verhoeven told The Guardian in 2018.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
I could easily hail “Howl’s Moving Castle” as a tribute to maturity, especially when placed against other Miyazaki stories starring young heroines setting out on adventures.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
He’s a little too awful for me, but I do think we could use less sanitized heroes and heroines in modern love stories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
She has made images of performers such as Charles Dance and Roger Daltrey and Second World War heroines such as Noor Inayat Khan and Violette Szabo.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026
Sometimes there are said to have been two heroines of that name.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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