How To Use Antihero In A Sentence
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Or maybe you did, but if so, it was a comic novel, and the main character got called an antihero.
The Women’s Room
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Justified is a rare treat, a show with subtle humor, humanity and flawed heroes and antiheroes that feel like real people.
Morgan Glennon: Justified Returns for a Third Season With Guns Blazing
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He plays scorned lover Jed with an untempered delicacy and spidery creepiness, while the antihero is the epitome of controlled frustration.
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As with other noir heroes and antiheroes, his wits are his best weapon.
In the Shadowy Recesses of 'Noir'
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He is delightful as the no-good antihero of this obscure made-for-TV movie.
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Our antihero is the rookie racing-car sensation Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson), a go-it-alone, look-out-for-number-one showboat with an agent in Hollywood (who else but Jeremy Piven) and dreams of big-bucks corporate sponsorship.
Life in the Fast Lane
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Most interesting is the brilliance with which the series plays the antihero game.
Times, Sunday Times
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They create nothing but dark and moody antiheroes living dark and moody lives in dark and moody science fiction and fantasy worlds, where ironic quips have taken the place of actual human qualities like self sacrifice, love, and hope.
MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature
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Collier welcomes passion projects with antiheroes and slow-burning stories that may not attract broad audiences.
Special Report: TV's Top Innovators
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Ruby, the silly but likable antiheroine of Hilary Freeman's perceptive and fast-paced Lifted (Piccadilly Press, £6.99), comes from a more recognisable contemporary teen world, where insecurity and boredom are the sources of most ills.
Summer reading for teenagers: darkness, danger and charity shops
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By that definition, an antihero is a flat character, one that is simply a placeholder in a story rather than a true protganist.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Hero vs Antihero
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Her penetrating soprano lacked a modicum of sensuality for the final opera's antiheroine, but she suggested a hard-bitten gold-digger effectively.
Times, Sunday Times
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That confession could come straight from the lips of Mavis Gary, the caustic antiheroine of "Young Adult.
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If ever Balanchine had re-choreographed the full four-act "Swan Lake," I'd like to imagine he'd have made the scene for the antiheroine Odile like this: voluptuous, intoxicating, with the ballerina leading a female throng whose energies all grow increasingly wild around the bewildered but overwhelmed hero.
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The heroes are mostly antiheroic, and the milieu is more frenetic than credible, but it's no surprise that this novel is a 2008 Hugo Award nominee.
Retirement Policy
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Federico Luppi, Cronos (1993) Debunking that most enduring vampire cliche, Guillermo del Toro's chilling masterpiece manages utterly to desexualise its antihero's bloodlust with extraordinary results.
The 10 best screen vampires
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It was a pleasure worth waiting for - oblique, witty, antiheroic - particularly funny about the futility of love and ambition.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hence it is hard to see why she would have wanted to play the Marquise de Merteuil, the elaborately deceitful antiheroine of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," Christopher Hampton's "Masterpiece Theatre" - style stage version of Choderlos de Laclos's 1782 epistolary novel about a pair of aristocratic immoralists who make the fatal mistake of putting their heads in a noose of their own knotting.
On Broadway, Bright Stars and Dim Casting
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The pair make two of the most cold-blooded and vile antiheroes ever found in a Hollywood Western.
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Much like his alky antihero, Smith is a force to be reckoned with.
Manhattan Weekend Box Office: Sex and the City vs. The Wackness on New York Screens
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Its antihero is first encountered on the frozen wastes, where he encounters an alluring woman.
Times, Sunday Times
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The predatory antiheroine who steals a small fortune becomes the prey, while the meek victim of an innkeeper is revealed to be a deranged murderer.
My Year of Flops
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Kartheiser is by far the best thing about a curious two-parter in which Nick Frost (of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz fame) plays the yobbish antihero John Self and which only haphazardly captures the baroque paranoias of Amis's prose.
Vincent Kartheiser: 'I definitely do psychopathic. I don't try to, but it just sneaks out'
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It is not surprising, then, that by the late-19th century, three-quarters of women were "out of health" and represented the single largest market for therapeutic services, allowing doctors like Silas Weir Mitchell, the rest-cure physician who has been identified as the antihero of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, to earn $60,000 a year in the
The Young Turks
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Albert Finney is the cocky, belligerent antihero of Karel Reisz's Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, scripted by Alan Sillitoe from his novel: a truculent toolmaker with an off-duty taste for fine suitings.
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Our lone female antiheroine not only falls for the student protester, but she also agrees to help him with a robbery in order to help fund an all out war on the corrupt police.
Remembering Yasuharu Hasebe (1932-2009)
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Even though she's presented as an emotionally cold person and therefore more of an antiheroine, she's relieved from being tarred with the usual misogynist brush in a few key ways.
"On the Female Vampire," Evie Byrne Guest Post
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Petronio's attempt at alchemy -- converting superheroism into antiheroism -- simply fails.
Chicago Reader
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Dudeism, a quasi-religion based upon the teachings of the film's antihero The Dude, has been the result of its slow-burn success and this event brings its founder Oliver Benjamin to the Idler magazine's west London slacker school for a debate on tenpin bowling, naps and kicking back.
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It starts as a heist movie, we're invited to root for the beautiful heroine/antiheroine who is in moral turmoil; and then - well, you know what happens next.
MIND MELD: The Best Genre Crossovers
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But his antiheroine is, to my mind, a greater achievement.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most interesting is the brilliance with which the series plays the antihero game.
Times, Sunday Times
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I first saw the new antihero last year on a waitperson's chest (slogan: ‘Cute but psycho’), but I didn't know her name then.
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The following year, Woo's A Better Tomorrow ... introduced Chow Yun-fat as the sullen, brutal antihero and Cheung as his sensitive counterpart.
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Shapiro notes, All the people I interviewed are sort of flawed antiheroes, which is the part that Theo the main character plays in the movie.
Wendy Strgar: Giving Monogamy A Chance
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In this week's episode of the Writing Excuses podcast, Dan, Howard, and I talk about antiheroes.
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Then our antihero is seen tenderly removing the fish from the boat’s hull.
Archive 2007-06-01
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The antihero is a fictional Conservative Chief Whip, Francis Urquhart the entire concept came from the initials, 'F.U.' played by Ian Richardson.
Sony Sets The Lords Day As Clancy-esque Thriller With Franchise Potential | /Film
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With the possible exceptions of horror and superhero comic books (which, though predating the field of "contemporary fantasy," are arguably as much a subset thereof as they are a subset of sci-fi), the fantasy genre seems to contain a greater proportion of antiheroes than any other.
March 2010
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This is the first time in UK film that the hoodie gang, practised in petty crime, rather than snazzy gangsterism or striking violence, has been treated like big canvas outlaw antiheroes.
SXSW 2011: Joe Cornish on aliens, hoodies and Attack the Block
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Arsenal's band of young warriors are not antiheroic for their failure.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Red Sweet Wine of Youth: The Brave and Brief Lives of the War Poets" is a book about "the impact of that war on the sensibility of the artist"; it also sets out to show that Sassoon et al were not necessarily antiwar but antiheroism, as in the mocking title of one of Wilfred Owen's most famous poems, "Dulce et Decorum Est.
Versed in the Horror of War
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Collier welcomes passion projects with antiheroes and slow-burning stories that may not attract broad audiences.
Special Report: TV's Top Innovators
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They were antiheroes before antiheroism was cool, and it’s that certitude of their old-school hipness that they cling to ever harder to deal with the welter of criticisms you cite above.
Why Would They Lie? | ATTACKERMAN
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Her antiheroine tortures detective Archie Sheridan, carving out his spleen, cutting a heart shape into his chest and feeding him drain cleaner.
A Female Serial Killer Takes a Breather
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The poets of the First World War were not so much antiwar as antiheroism.
Versed in the Horror of War
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But such is the Australian love of the underdog, not to mention a good yarn, that tales of this antihero live on and have been embellished by the years.
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The Six are six (and frequently five) down-on-their-luck folk who range from "antihero" to "supervillian, but not right at the moment" who go around committing crimes for pay (and often, balking at the last minute from particular crimes, and thus not getting paid).
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