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protagonists

noun as in person who takes the lead; central figure of narrative

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In both “Say Nothing,” and “The Diplomat,” Kinnear’s accent serves to separate his characters from the shows’ protagonists — various members of the IRA in the former and U.S. ambassador to the U.K.

“I’m quite cruel to my protagonists. I drag them through the mud, I torture them, they suffer a lot of trauma, but then I reward them at the end.”

The collision that brings the teenage protagonists of “Fireworks” together is as cute as meet-cutes get.

Each of the songs explicates a place and time of an incident or an idea in the lives of the protagonists.

The Middle East is once again on the brink of a deep and damaging war between two protagonists that have been facing off against each other for much of the past 45 years.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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