How To Use Heroine In A Sentence

She's the prettiest, most ethereal romantic heroine in the movies.
Its heroes were beastly revellers or cruel and ferocious plunderers; its heroines unsexed hoidens, playing the ugliest tricks with their lovers, and repaying slights with bloody revenge, -- very dangerous and unsatisfactory companions for any other than the fire - eating Vikings and redhanded, unwashed Berserkers. The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism
Dormant until today, the Olympic tennis stadium suddenly erupted when the Greek heroine came from a set down to gain momentum in the second session.
But she's not actually ugly; she's just pert and smart-mouthed and has a sexy voice, completely according with that rom-com genre convention of the comic sidekick to the heroine.
When Kwan shocked Hong Kong by coming out, he was already established as one of the city's best filmmakers, esteemed for his finely tuned aesthetics and perfectly realized tragic heroines.

It should be noted that society was only willing to let these girls be heroines if they wore tight clothes and were beautiful.
And why is there no statue or Bank Holiday to the memory of this national hero or heroine? Times, Sunday Times
The story follows on from the death of the heroine.
Complex analysis of the international tale of the hero or heroine who glimpses a forbidden sight and suffers for it.
This one reminded me of Louise Bagshawe or one of the other British bonkbuster authors - quite European though it's set in LA and New York as well as France and revenge-oriented rather than Phillips' usual football-player types being thrust into situations with quirky heroines. Archive 2009-04-01
Because she vanquishes such devitalizing influences single-handedly, however, this heroine's 'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
The novelist makes his heroine commit suicide at the end of the book.
“But Gemmy, like every cartoon heroine, was dressed in a soft tunic, a sort of peplos that bared her shoulders and arms and part of her bosom.” callipygian. More Vocabulary from Eco « So Many Books
And surely even in books, Flora, the heroine wouldn't go back to such a rotter ? SOMEBODY
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)
Fans will enjoy the aptly titled A TWISTED LADDER as the heroine ponders nurturing vs. naturing with her DNA and her childhood tainted in this terrific refreshing character driven thriller. A Twisted Ladder-Rhodi Hawk « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
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
A drama of labor extortion with the heroines memory as hostage.
Fleda, my dear," said Mrs. Evelyn, with that trembling tone of concealed ecstasy which always set every one of Fleda's nerves a-jarring "you may tell the gentlemen that they do not always know when they are making an unfelicitous compliment I never read what poets say about 'briny drops' and 'salt tears', without imagining the heroine immediately to be something like Lot's wife. Queechy, Volume II
Perhaps it would be best in such shows to ditch relationships entirely, making the heroine into a female James Bond who uses and discards men or a female gunslinger type who lives celibately, but each of those has problems of its own. Good News, Bad News
She rose from humble origins to become a military heroine by the age of 19, although she was ultimately captured and burned at the stake for heresy.
It is important to underline that the heroine represents both pre-war and post-war values.
The novel's heroine, Stella, is a thirty-something divorcee and single mum on a quest for love.
Few would begrudge her victory as she is one of Britain's unsung sporting heroines. Times, Sunday Times
I needed to get up, not loll there like a Victorian heroine. Raziel
When indisposition, therefore, confined her to the limits of her own apartment, our heroine adopted the same mode of conduct observed at the Hermitage, during Mrs. Bertram’s illness: — she sung, she read, she assisted Mrs. Ross in any piece of fine needle-work which happened to be in hands at the time; and, in short, endeavoured to soften the painful or tedious moments of distress by every possible means best calculated for the purpose. Stella of the North, or the Foundling of the Ship
Trying to impress their former acquaintances, our ditzy heroines flaunt mobile phones. Times, Sunday Times
In this diary, the heroine is more likely to spend her days loading cartloads of hay and selling cattle rather than counting calories and swigging Chardonnay.
She picked up her shoes, exhausted now by her behaviour, no better than a heroine from a slushy romance. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
Anyone who still believes this myth should look to the dozens of female heroines in comic books.
Your cut-and-dried critic, who insists on measuring a mountain with a footrule and quarrels with it for daring to be out of line, insists also on labelling a certain character hero and another heroine. Representative English Story Tellers. I -- Joseph Conrad
Suffice it to say that Olive identifies intensely with Hester Prynne, the outcast heroine of "The Scarlet Letter. 'The Help': '60s Racism in Black and White
She had a smile that could light up a street full of people and was extremely lively, had a particular type of voluptuousness - a Rodin sculpture come to life. She reminded me of a libertine heroine. She was just my type.
So we could soon see star-struck youngsters learning their study materials directly from tinsel world heroes or heroines.
My listings like "looking to get tarred and pleasured" and "Searching for a heroine to do the paronym of this sentence's lexical subject" kept getting flagged. Gawker
Among those buried in the cinders are the dusky-eyed heroine and her friend mother. The Iron Trail
The first hint of the emergence of this young woman can already be found in the figure of Rachel, heroine of the aforementioned novel, Ha-Avot ve-ha-Banim (published originally under the title Na’omi). Haskalah Literature: Portrayal of Women.
Returning to England as "the Heroine of the Crimea", she used personal illness (a disabling condition that Bostridge and his peers identify as brucellosis) to hold her family at bay so as to be free to focus on the business of sanitary and medical reform for which she has become justly celebrated. Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
That is, Austen invited an intense identification with her heroines while undermining the reader's ability to do so through the irony inherent in free indirect speech.
In one episode from the show, the heroine Ola is introduced to what seems to be the perfect suitor. In a TV comedy, Egyptian women gain a voice on marriage
If by the hero of a novel means one the character not who commands the most interest but who best represents the author's values, Dolly is the heroine.
Neil sipped slyly at the communion wine, thinking of the violent Norse heroines Trudi had described to him. RUSHING TO PARADISE
The heroine dies in the closing sequence of the film.
It's a difficult job and many are unsung heroines and heroes. The Sun
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
The heroines explicitly reject comfortable middle-class lives when they rebel against their parental figures.
The heroines of the female sport came up with the most innovative fundraising idea of the year when they decided to hold a draw to see who would be their main sponsor.
How can we take without either a shudder or a laugh the abject refusal of Emmathat "imaginist," self-indulgent, independent, charmingly creative and snobbish heroineto call Knightley "George" after they are betrothed: "I never can call you any thing but Mr. Knightley" (III. xvii, 420). Box Hill and the Limits of Realism
Nikiya, the temple dancer heroine of Petipa's La Bayadère Thu to 13 Aug, pits her passion for the warrior Solor against the implacable powers of religion and royalty. This week's new dance
The play closed with the tragic death of both hero and heroine.
Flint, which is the title of the book as well as the surname of Eddy's frighteningly driven heroine, is a cross-genre novel.
That heroine of Assassins had distended her jaws and throat and belly by means of Polymorphine, like a python.
When Kalliope had no interesting news from the city, Kyros told us war stories and about heroes, heroines, gods and goddesses.
Carrie becomes KateSarah Jessica Parker has seen off Nicole Kidman to land the big-screen role of Kate Reddy, heroine of Allison Pearson's 2002 novel I Don't Know How She Does It. SJ, as she always tells me to call her, will be playing Kate as an American because the action has been entirely transposed from the book's London setting to Manhattan. Trailer Trash
The heroine was played by Rita Luna, and her portrait was painted by Goya.
The first is the unaired pilot episode of The Greatest American Heroine.
As Mattie Ross, the 14-year-old heroine, obsessively pursues her father's killer, she proves to be an almost unbelievably viable outdoorswoman, stoically fording a river on horseback, camping out nightly without complaint, bracing the elements, staring down death. Avital Binshtock: An Environmentalist's Review of True Grit
He tried hard not to admire or approve of the heroine, tried to imagine that life was not like that really.
Wonder woman is so great because she rises ABOVE female stereotypes - the same goes for catwoman, and many other female super heroines. Sex and the single Marvel super heroine | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
Our confessional anti-heroine is still a TV journalist, still concerned about her weight (she should be more worried about the all the excess flab in the dialogue), but no longer single.
Much imaginative capering ensues as our stroppy young heroine comes of age through the time-honoured route of folly, emergency driving lessons and sexual awakening at the hands of Robert Sheehan the gobby Irish one from Misfits, who plays snoggable townie borrower Spiller as a tearaway in a red biker jacket. Phil Hogan's Christmas TV highlights
The national heroine of the day was Xing Fen, winner of the first Gold medal of the Games.
But his antiheroine is, to my mind, a greater achievement. Times, Sunday Times
You'll find yourself laughing out loud, clapping for the heroine, and feeling reluctant, amused commiseration for the hero.
She is also a real life heroine. Times, Sunday Times
Whenever Wodehouse writes about an intimidatingly tall and handsome young woman (usually to contrast her with his heroines, who tend to be small and slight in build), he's parodying the "queenly" heroines of many novels at the time, particularly those of Ethel M. Dell (I've actually read an Ethel M. Dell novel and hope to write about it after the shell-shock wears off). Wodehouse the Parodist
A ghost story set in medieval times with screaming heroines and handsome knights, it was aiming at the market that longed for a return to more rural, gentler times.
Fair dames and damsels, may your loves be as happy as those of the heroine of this romaunt. Burlesques
August 12th, 2009 Siva, Teja, Venu and Kishore are playing the heroes, while Amruthavalli and Shruti are playing the heroines in 'Bangla' (Amavasya Ardharatri 12 gantalu) under the direction of Srinivas Tarunavalli. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
That makes for a heartbreakingly sexy hero and tough as nails heroine. NZ/Aus Authors: Anna Campbell - Captive of Sin
It is not a severe attack," my father wrote at the beginning, "yet it is attended by fits of exceeding discomfort, occasional comatoseness, and even delirium to the extent of making the poor child talk in rhythmic measure, like a tragic heroine -- as if the fever lifted her feet off the earth; the fever being seldom dangerous, but is liable to recur on slight occasion hereafter. Hawthorne and His Circle
The novel's heroine, however, is so determined to have her day in church that when her lacklustre fiancé dumps her with six weeks to spare she madly decides to go ahead with the wedding anyway.
With its warm and sympathetic heroines and its finely cadenced prose, this collection demonstrates that [Adichie] is keeping faith with her talent and with her country. The Thing Around Your Neck: Summary and book reviews of The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
And Jane was described as a real woman, with nothing clumsy about her character and as a genuine heroine unlike today's film stars and models.
But the book was hijacked from the heroine by the antagonist and carted off in another direction altogether. Fantastic Women: Lois McMaster Bujold (part the 1st)
The President of the United States is a supporting player in the romantic misadventures of Hillary Felicity Porter Clinton, the dweeby good guy our heroine has been ignoring for the BMOC, and the Secretary of State has nothing more pressing on her mind than wondering what pretty girl has caught her wayward boyfriend's eye and maybe how pleased she is with herself for acing that term paper for English lit. Lance Mannion:
The old woman servant in the house, and her conversation with the heroine, constitute one of these artistic embellishments that turn a good story into an even better one.
If the second book took place in the same world but dealt with a different hero/heroine, with March and Jax hanging around in the background being stagnantly blissful, it would be an SFR. Ann Aguirre » Blog Archive » A question for the ages
Numerous Greek heroes and heroines commit manslaughter in myth.
You can hear it in the tight-lipped anguish of Lady Hester Collyer, the suicidal heroine of "The Deep Blue Sea," who has left her proper husband for a ne'er-do-well test pilot. Terence Rattigan, Forgotten Centenarian
And even if the heroine, having lost most of her garments, is in ragged, but utterly charming deshabille, she never forgets she is a lady. Book 3
The figure of fun here is the titular heroine, an ill-favored but supremely self-confident marsh nymph so convinced of her feminine charms that she sets out to land the king of the gods himself.
In a changed political climate, and with like-minded women unable to defend her publicly, a feminist heroine, it turned out, was a very expendable creature.
The screenplay moved the zoo to California and created the role of a heroine for Johansson, who plays zookeeper Kelly. Dartmoor Zoo gets Hollywood's animal magic
They often interwove personal experiences into their writing, and like their heroines, these authors were constrained economically and socially due to their gender.
With the lantern, she looked just like a character from one of those old black and white films, like the daring heroine bold enough to uncover ghastly secrets hidden deep within the woods.
She had enjoyed slipping away into their make believe world and pretending she was the heroine.
And that leads librarians to despair of the lack of middle reader novels which accounts for this years newbery picks and four honor books because when librarians say they want more middle reader novels what they mean is chiefly what was picked, heroine of an age, books of alength, their message whether they knew it or not was, you write 'em, we'll sticker 'em. Three random notes
It's a depressing resolution for a heroine: to do the dutiful thing.
She emerges as a full, three-dimensional character in a way that few horror genre heroines ever do.
The main drugs represented in this area are heroine, crack and crystal meth, and Francy explained that many of the area's inhabitants live very nocturnal lives and that the mornings can be fairly quiet.
That mix of humanity and hardness rolled together has made many a local hero or heroine in working class communities throughout the years.
= Pe´richole = (_La_), the heroine of Offenbach’s comic opera (_opera bouffe_) of that name. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
Frankie and Johnny was deep-sixed by an unlikable heroine and a rather boring screenplay.
The heroine, in a nice change of pace from the usual insecure whiner, is described by the mangaka herself as "invincible"--she is coolly confident in herself and her quite formidable powers. Manga Mondays with Kethylia 12/3 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
Similarly the Greek and Roman gods were more like mythical heroes and heroines than like the omnipotent, omniscient and good God postulated in mediaeval and modern philosophy.
The eponymous heroine is a shy 17-year-old whose mother arranged her marriage at birth.
Readers looking for sweet, sympathetic heroines would be best advised to look elsewhere.
While We the Living is tame by modern standards, it treats sex with a frankness not to be found in Hollywood films of the time: Not only do we get a sympathetic heroine who is sexually involved with two men, we also see her in clearly precoital moments with both. Love, Politics And Ayn Rand
This is not a film where we find ourselves empathizing with the heroine; instead, we are dispassionate voyeurs, observing her actions and unraveling clues about who she was, is, and will be.
He also writes one bitingly funny scene in which his heroine finds herself grilled by Jeremy Paxman in an exchange that spreads more heat than light. The Heretic - review
The women in non-fiction chick lit possess all the cartoonish and exaggerated qualities of chick-lit heroines, and none of the complexity of real women.
The heroine, Catherine Keener's Kate, suffers from a surfeit of empathy, but the movie has suffered only from underexposure. Kings
But a play that seemed mildly provocative on a first viewing now looks as coldly manipulative as its heroine.
Hip, sophisticated and painted with Japanese cosmetics, the heroines move slickly through a life of nightclubbing, jet planes and media parties.
I'm still working on it, but I'll tell you this much: The heroine, Ailish is a blind witch handfasted to a demon and must find a way to break the handfast or she will die. Archive 2009-11-01
The woman 's a heroine. Times, Sunday Times
Feanay has a similar set of moves, but he uses different guns and is generally quicker than Sho (like most videogame heroines compared with their male counterparts).
Another important instance of courtly behaviour is when the hero has to lead the heroine into the dance.
Ina means moon; Ina-mae - aitu, the heroine of our story, means Ina-who-had-a-divine (aitu) lover, and she was the daughter of Kui, the blind. Modern Mythology
It forces heroes and heroines to act out of character and rewards vice with virtue.
The husband-and-wife producers of the Oscar-nominated film "Precious" will be working with the author and a screenwriter to adapt the humorous heroine -- a wise-cracking third-grader -- for the big screen. News Junkies
Instead, we see the upper crust and their fabulous lifestyles: fashionably dressed heroes and heroines, luxuriously furnished buildings, de luxe cars, and posh hotels.
Fleda my dear," said Mrs. Evelyn, with that trembling tone of concealed ecstasy which always set every one of Fleda's nerves a jarring, -- "you may tell the gentlemen that they do not always know when they are making an unfelicitous compliment -- I never read what poets say about 'briny drops' and 'salt tears' without imagining the heroine immediately to be something like Lot's wife. Queechy
It's worth bearing in mind that the fount of all female action heroines is China - not a country known for its equal treatment of the sexes.
Here is a new series of mystery stories for girls by an author who knows the kind of stories every girl wants to read -- mystery of the "shivery" sort, adventure that makes the nerves tingle, clever "detecting" and a new lovable heroine, Judy Bolton, whom all girls will take to their hearts at once. Marjorie's Busy Days
The exacting demands of the theatrical calling dims the luster that lured the deluded one recklessly to enter the seemingly attractive circle, to appear as the make-believe heroines of romance on the stage. A Pirate of Parts
And I just saw something about a new comic with a heroine called Aphrodite.
The end cannot come fast enough for Britain's exhausted sailing heroine, whose trimaran almost came to grief yesterday
Joan of Arc is a heroine in history as well as an enigma in the collective unconscious and, dimension of myth.
In other movies the heroine might pound on the door or scream at this point. Times, Sunday Times
So, in one of Henry James's novels, much is revealed when the heroine, out of character, overfills a cup of tea.
Her bold look, denuded bosom, and flaunty air, were sufficient to impress at once our heroine with an unfavourable opinion of her; and after she had retired with Rosse she expressed her dislike to him, and enquired whether she was not right in her conjectures. Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund
Greta Garbo played tragic lovers, exotic temptresses and steely heroines, anchoring many mediocre melodramas and haughty period pieces like a pro.
The mother, whom the author renames as Eily, is an archetypal O'Brien heroine - beautiful, free-loving and fey, whose only crime is compassion.
Alice Lenshina died in jail, but her church survives and she is regarded as a heroine by Zambian feminists.
In the final analysis I think our sympathy lies with the heroine of the play.
She is wonderful as the steely-eyed anti-heroine.
In the original, the title heroine is a sweet-natured, country lass with a dotingly protective mother, a passion for dance and a dangerously susceptible heart. Thestar.com - Home Page
Most people acknowledge the big difference between the dangers of soft drugs such as cannabis and the likes of heroine and cocaine.
Unlike the saga, it binds the conscience neither of teller nor of listener; its hero or heroine has no historical name or fame, either national or local; and being untrammelled either by history or probability, the one condition the tale is expected to fulfil is to end happily. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology
Lifting her arms skyward, the beautiful Sara Baras thrusts out her chest and fiercely stomps her feet, embodying the tragic Mariana Pineda, the complex heroine of her most successful theater piece.
They had found their anti-heroine to root for because she was real and because she was one of them.
The play closed with the tragic death of both hero and heroine.
He was portrayed as the savior of the downtrodden and of the victimized heroine, and is the most renowned of all Tamil stars for his screen fights.
Already considered one of the most exciting performers in the new generation of lyric coloratura sopranos, Mary has played many of the world's most famous operatic heroines on many of the leading stages around the world.
There is a charm in Tennyson's "Godiva" or his "Enoch Arden" beyond the reach of mere art; it is found in the noble spirit of the heroine who replies to the taunt of her husband, -- Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism
Then just 19, she became an instant national heroine. The Sun
The heroine is a little girl who is somehow transported to a magical bathhouse, where she must work in order to regain her identity and save her parents who have been turned into pigs.
In the novels of the period the dilemma was felicitously solved by the discovery, on the last page, that the apparently penniless heroine was really a great heiress.
And given that my mother is from France, where the "Anglo Saxon" British burned French heroine Joan of Arc to ashes, and her birth being 39 miles from mom's house, isn't it a bit inflammatory and preposterous to call me an "anglo"? Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
I work in analytics in the financial sector and am sick of journalists, fashion designers, and secretaries as heroines (its not my world). Paranormal Romances
The apparently immoralist heroine gradually establishes, over the course of these central 150 pages, both the shallowness and the cost of purely physical gratifications.
The heroine, Maryska, is the personification of female sexuality.
Its heroine, Claire, is suffering from stress-related amnesia.
You can hear it in the tight-lipped anguish of Lady Hester Collyer, the suicidal heroine of "The Deep Blue Sea," who has left her proper husband for a ne'er-do-well test pilot. Terence Rattigan, Forgotten Centenarian
It's the usual story: we are fêted as heroines when we land at Edinburgh airport and then, within a few days, folk have forgotten our names.
Intricate carvings decorated the face of the doors, depicting the many elven heroes and heroines.
The heroine dies in the closing sequence of the film.
The stories were invariably morality tales, where the child hero or heroine was faced with a choice between pursuing self-gratification or helping a person in distress.
This was an allusion to the most infamous murder committed by the two anti-heroines of the book as they are on the run through France.
The heroine knelt in front of a hole that was soon to be her grave, refusing to confess to her proposed counter-revolutionary crimes.
Rita is not a mere love interest but a heroine, and her presence brings a refreshing jolt of practicality that contrasts with the mind games that preoccupy the male characters.
I knew ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ was usually bowdlerised so that at least the heroine survived but in the version in this book she ended up eaten.
He is just offended by an incongruous adaptation, which, in his opinion, undermines his own concept by degrading his heroine.
The guid folk of Airdrie should embrace and celebrate Ms Mitchell's talent and begin immediately the quest for a worthy successor to this largely unsung heroine.
‘It may be all right to have as heroines those who do not know Tamil, but to play the role of comediennes, you need to know the language, the language in which films are made’.
A silk screen impression of a heroine from yesteryear sitting in a languid pose declaring her self-awareness is juxtaposed with the modern.
Our heroine goes in search of the fabled Pandora's Box in order to stop a bio-weapons baron opening it up.
Kayla is also refreshing as a flawed, normal working-class girl who as the heroine has stumbled into the supernatural world and must survive without any powers or special abilities. “The Last Angel” by Natasha Rhodes
I also thought that our hero would inject a little modern/alien thinking into Old Norse and let the heroine, who, in point of fact, saved her people, become the queen, but no, he totally accepts the badge of kingliness and rules happily ever after, I guess. Day in the Life of an Idiot
The heroine takes off to India, where she ludicrously exchanges her laptop for Tibetan incenses.
I'd say William Gibson has had the most profound effect on representation of female characters, especially heroines, in both the written and filmic genres of sci-fi, and branching into action.
The season debuts with Usha Gupta's new piece, Asht Nayika, based on eight female heroines of Indian mythology.
The heroine plays an essentially passive role in the drama.
She the heroine entrapped by family expectations; he a faithful and stoic, if unimaginative hero.
Similarly, scared by the fire alarm, the heroine decides to ‘unbar, unbolt, unlock, and open’ the door and cross the space that separates her from Lovelace.
I wanted a female heroine. Times, Sunday Times
Based on the bestselling novel by Sebastian Faulks, but with some thoroughgoing shifts in tone and narrative, Charlotte Gray centres on a heroine joining the Second World War effort and falling in love.
Heroine-chic is a term that describes a certian fashion/lifestyle. MCDOUCHE STILL SMOKING ROCKS (I HOPE)
* The heroine, Lilith is so beautiful, her soul is wonderous and kind. Inaugral Friday Book Club
So after protein drinks, becoming a vegetarian, exercise, stopping smoking, and doctor after doctor I decided to relieve my pain with small doses of heroine for a walloping 3 whole weeks.
In one, the heroine is a woman who has also been a man. Times, Sunday Times
The novelist makes his heroine commit suicide at the end of the book.
She emerged from Holloway Prison a national heroine. The Sun
I have a great deal of power over them, but, like one of those comic-book heroines, I am sworn to use it only for good.
Our era produces a host of heroes and heroines.
The caped crusader with her massive handbag is a new comic book heroine. The Sun
Nymphs, friends, fairies and heroine all dance with the same buttery softness, whether the music is staccato, marcato, legato, forte or piano. Ballet in London: ‘Sleeping Beauty’ at Covent Garden - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
As a Saxon Benedictine, Hrotsvit wrote lives of saints, epic Ottonian histories, and brief dramas of Christian martyrs and heroines.
The heroine, Portia, about to arrive home, is reported to be kneeling at holy crosses in the company of a hermit.
Profilers have been delighted to discover her colourful past, and in particular her infamous debut novel Elite, in which the heroine is a leggy redhead who becomes Secretary of State for Scotland.
The latter are so often the unsung heroes and heroines of overseas operations. The Sun
An event of this magnitude could perhaps one day bring recognition to ‘true’ heroes and heroines in society.
The range of roles afforded female heroines in Perrault's retellings is predictably limited and limiting, consistently advising young girls to be beautiful rather than clever, passive rather than active.
The heroine makes her exit .
Great acts of courage happen every day, but heroes and heroines often go unrecognised.
I hate the phrase late bloomers ," our gawky heroine laments. The Comic-Grotesque Goes North
Benedict did try to improve Vatican relations with France after the war by canonizing the French heroine Joan of Arc.
Well, Bluebell is our heroine, and we must make the best of her, -- to some people admiration never does come amiss; and if a demure _oeillade_ can play the mischief with the too inflammable of the rougher sex, I don't know who is to be held accountable except the father of lies. Bluebell A Novel
Tea Party super heroine, Sarah Palin decried the NAACP's accusation and shot back that "I am saddened by the NAACP's claim that patriotic Americans who stand up for the United States of America's Constitutional rights are somehow 'racists,'" Constitutional rights are quite elastic and not necessarily synonymous with anti-racist. Noura Erakat: The Tea Party and Race in America
With her tip-tilted nose and sheaf of brown hair, Mulgrew as Isolt even resembles John W. Waterhouse's Pre-Raphaelite paintings of mythic medieval heroines.
Traditional beliefs and views are subverted as a searching look is directed at figures and heroines from our epics, myths and legends.
What could I know of the times in the book when the heroine is alone, as she often is? Times, Sunday Times
Dr Zhivago comes to mind - there is even a theme identified with the heroine, although played on that ubiquitous mandolin rather than the balalaika.
Classic gothic tale complete with governess heroine, malevolent atmosphere, and forbidding mansion.
Violetta is one of the great tragic heroines of Verdi's operas.
It has also been found that preschoolers, who are typically unable to distinguish between what is real and fiction, often see television as reality and try to copy the actions and behaviors of their heroes and heroines.
Oh, you'll read about a very interesting take on gnomes, selkies, kelpies, vampires, succubi, and more but you won't find a kick-ass heroine living in a dark and gritty city. Review: Tempest Rising by Nicole Peeler
Can our heroine summon her courage and save the day? The Sun

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