Readers looking for sweet, sympathetic heroines would be best advised to look elsewhere. |
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Byatt's heroines are victims of a culture whose value-systems are prejudiced against nature and natural processes of ageing. |
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Mae is a serious role, but Lombard's smart-alecky tough dame isn't far from the screwball heroines for which she's best remembered. |
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The bel canto opera repertoire is most closely associated with Bellini's deranged heroines and Donizetti's game gamines. |
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As I matured, I grew less and less tolerant of singing animals and doe-eyed heroines. |
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The heroines explicitly reject comfortable middle-class lives when they rebel against their parental figures. |
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Cavendish and her dramatic heroines alternately invite and reject the gaze of the other, of desire, and of the crowd. |
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Moviegoers delighted in seeing globetrotting heroes and heroines, fighting the bad guys and sipping wines in distant places. |
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Most people want their showbiz heroes and heroines to be screwed-up, unpredictable and prone to artistic tantrums, don't they? |
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So we could soon see star-struck youngsters learning their study materials directly from tinsel world heroes or heroines. |
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All that's certain is that real women, in droves, are investing themselves in the prolonged unweddedness of these unwed heroines. |
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Great acts of courage happen every day, but heroes and heroines often go unrecognised. |
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For 74 years, these true American heroines have languished there ignominiously. |
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It debunks the myth of great Victorian heroes and heroines such as Dr Arnold, Florence Nightingale, Cardinal Manning. |
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In the carnage of the Bali bombings, as with the destruction of the New York World Trade Centre last year, heroes and heroines emerged. |
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More than half of its movies debuted at the Television Critics Association last month focused on women's issues, female characters or heroines. |
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Not only do the painters look this way, so do the heroines of the books by the female novelists. |
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Anyone who still believes this myth should look to the dozens of female heroines in comic books. |
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The latest wave of computer games looks set to feature heroines more resembling Carmen Electra or Pamela Anderson than Buffy the Vampire Slayer. |
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When Kalliope had no interesting news from the city, Kyros told us war stories and about heroes, heroines, gods and goddesses. |
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The season debuts with Usha Gupta's new piece, Asht Nayika, based on eight female heroines of Indian mythology. |
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Propertius' romantic, impossible dream had been that Cynthia would be like heroines of myth. |
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The new series is set in a world of superheroes like Superman, Spiderman, Batman, and heroines like Wonder Woman don't exist. |
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Intricate carvings decorated the face of the doors, depicting the many elven heroes and heroines. |
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Traditional beliefs and views are subverted as a searching look is directed at figures and heroines from our epics, myths and legends. |
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By the end of it we had half the known superheroes and heroines from the old comic books. |
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She focuses exclusively on narrative representations of female heroines from classical antiquity. |
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The heroines could be divorcees with even a child or two, and the men they admire and seek to be with need not always be playboys on the prowl. |
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In the black-and-white era with its gloriously melodic music, heroes and heroines could get away with the minimum of gyrations. |
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Celluloid dreams, heroes and heroines, get real with compassionate message, as who else know best that all that glitters is not gold. |
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It should be noted that society was only willing to let these girls be heroines if they wore tight clothes and were beautiful. |
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We have no time to think and read, because we are busy watching bosomy heroines on the small screen. |
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Darnell's sultriness is smothering and disturbing, elemental in the manner of King Vidor heroines. |
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Not uncommonly, her heroines are upwardly mobile, particularly through the agency of matrimony. |
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It forces heroes and heroines to act out of character and rewards vice with virtue. |
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He wooed dozens of heroines on-screen and captivated millions of fans off it with his urbane charm. |
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What India's unsung heroes, and heroines, have achieved these past few weeks against great odds should not go unrewarded or unnoticed. |
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She plays the role of one two heroines in the film, the other being Samyuktha Varma. |
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Hip, sophisticated and painted with Japanese cosmetics, the heroines move slickly through a life of nightclubbing, jet planes and media parties. |
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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. |
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Chetty's subjects are symbolic tarotlike goddesses and heroines beautifully executed in silk with elegantly visible stitching, which hang on the wall like paintings. |
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I could use this opportunity to become as stylish and perhaps as divine as many of the heroines of yesteryear. |
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It is nearly always the case for our equine heroes and heroines that the end of their racing career is made public in a sparse announcement to the press. |
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Ordinary folk remain the unknown and unsung heroes and heroines. |
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They often interwove personal experiences into their writing, and like their heroines, these authors were constrained economically and socially due to their gender. |
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We'll take a break, and when we come back, we'll take calls for both Erin Runnion and Sheriff Mike Carona, who have become genuine American heroes and heroines, haven't they? |
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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. |
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Heroes, heroines and saints have remained almost unknown because of the extraordinary in the ordinariness. |
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Gods, demigods, kings descended from the gods, and princes and princesses are the heroes and heroines of traditional drama and dance. |
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It was not for me to dictate words to be uttered by the heroes and heroines of the Minerva Magazine, contrary to the theories of the editor thereof. |
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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. |
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The ticker-tape reception being afforded later this month to the 47,000 volunteers who were the true heroes and heroines of the Games is richly deserved. |
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A watch that is overtly seductive, in homage to Cartier's greatest watchmaking heroines. |
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Set in the pre-war Old South, Mitchell wrote about the fictional life of one of literature's and the silver screen's most memorable heroines, Scarlett O'Hara. |
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She also portrayed Corneille's heroines, who combined nobility of soul, pride, and intelligence. |
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Greta Garbo played tragic lovers, exotic temptresses and steely heroines, anchoring many mediocre melodramas and haughty period pieces like a pro. |
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Money shouts, and love – so yearningly sought after by her ever-romantic heroines, and so elusive – can scarcely make itself heard above its din. |
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In over four thousand years of history, countless heroes and heroines have left their mark. |
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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. |
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The heroines of novels and operas, like Mimi in La Bohème, often succumbed to it. |
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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. |
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She reveals the oppressiveness of housework evident in the series, an unusual viewpoint at a time when heroines in other books were learning to sew and cook. |
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Greta Garbo played tragic lovers, exotic temptresses and steely heroines. |
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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. |
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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. |
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There are also heroines who arrive on stage without any hairpins at all. |
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If Yash Chopra's heroes were handsome fighter pilots or brooding poets, then his heroines were magnificently groomed in their chiffon saris. |
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Each ethnic group has its own heroes and heroines, legends, and myths. |
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For as long as novels have been written, heroines in books by women have studied their beloveds' minds with a methodical, dispassionate eye. |
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Numerous Greek heroes and heroines commit manslaughter in myth. |
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You experience three missions from the perspective of a computer player who joins virtual heroines on adventures in France, Poland and Germany. |
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One has only to think of our diets, music and sporting heroines and heroes to recognise that. |
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Now come into plenary and write the names of each group's heroines and heroes in two columns on the flipchart. |
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Comics heroines, from Little Orphan Annie to Wonder Woman, are as a rule resiliently upbeat, however beset. |
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Like those nameless campaigners for freedom, most of the heroes and heroines throughout history have been of the unsung kind. |
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One of the more courageous American heroines was abolitionist Harriet Tubman. |
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Venezuela is a case in point, for this is where a data bank on heroines and the Order of Heroines of the Motherland were created. |
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Her novels present exuberant and independent heroines in rambling but always colourful plots, copiously footnoted with antiquarian and historical insights. |
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The several dark heroines, no less beautiful, are less restrained from the pressure of their own feelings. |
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The poems in the second part narrate legends about Norse heroes and heroines, such as Sigurd, Brynhildr and Gunnar. |
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There is another prejudice, or post-judice rather, that may have conditioned my choice of heroes and heroines. |
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For those of us who've had enough of whips, handcuffs and submissive heroines, here's hoping that Bridget is still 50 shades of scatty. |
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A delightful debut that harks back to the early days of Chick Lit when heroines were flawed, funny, and forever battling for love and happiness. |
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When the novel is reduced to a categorical study of two easily contrastable characters, the complexity of Austen's heroines is underestimated. |
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His heroines never have a true anagnorisis because the moral fault is never in themselves, only in outside conspirators. |
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They're styling with team jerseys and high-tops to make them feel united with their heroines. |
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The signature-gathering went smoothly, witnessed by officials from the government, the opposition and the CNE. In this section A coup unfolds Kafka in Caracas Street heroines A dying cause? |
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In Nicola Sturgeon's south Glasgow heartland, they are raising money to erect a statue of one of her heroines, a great campaigner of the Labour party who has been all but forgotten. |
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You are the real, albeit unsung, heroines of the world. |
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We cannot ask our heroes and heroines in our armed forces to go into these conflicts without proper backup training, support, medication, counselling and equipment. |
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Women are workaday heroines who like to stick to more concrete things. |
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What values do the heroines and heroes stand for? |
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Hence, since ancient times, the West Lake was associated with a large number of romatic poets, profound philosophers, national heroes and heroines. |
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The exhibition focusses mainly on the anonymous heroines who worked behind the scenes to achieve the transformation of women in modern Spanish society. |
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Its form has both religious and cultural significance, because it is believed to have originally been performed by the heroes and heroines of the celestial world. |
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Tatiana, a character with whom the composer greatly identified and one of the great heroines of Russian opera, writes an impassioned letter to the object of her affections. |
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Scott's work is identified for its striking visuals, with heroines also a common theme. |
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The miserable life she is forced to live as a result of her mother's death has resonance for orphans in every society, and many folk stories from different parts of the world have similar heroines. |
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Elizabeth is regarded as the most admirable and endearing of Austen's heroines. |
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A romance-adventure story set on the Rice Lake Plains in the very early settlement period of the 1760s, it casts Indiana, a young Mohawk, as one of its heroines, and the Ojibwa of the region as dangerous villains. |
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In the spirit of the age we have taken the liberty of having a countertenor sing an aria which belonged to one of the great heroines of history, Judith. |
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By appropriating and altering images of romance and historic novel heroines and celebrities, she works to legitimize these ungainly figures for the contemporary present. |
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Three heroines fade out in happily-ever-after tableaus. |
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Have no faith that three-dimensional movie heroines will soon appear on the screen with the rounded effect of your Uncle Stephen's stereopticon collection of stage beauties. |
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Again, almost too neatly, Pinter's messy extrication from marriage to the unhappy Vivien Merchant, creator of his first stage heroines, becomes a harrowing slog through anguish, silence and solitude. |
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I have never liked kids' books that feature heroes and heroines who are sappily too good to be true. |
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Based on one of Shakespeare's bolshiest heroines, Shirley plays a wealthy, successful politician who hopes to lead her party. |
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Lavish in every aspect, La Traviata is an emotional journey that speaks to the joys and despairs of love and paints a passionate portrait of one of the most tragic operatic heroines, the French courtesan Violetta Valéry. |
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An exhibition organised by the Migration Museum Association in collaboration with the Swiss National Museum shows Swiss influence in the USA through the eyes of celebrities as well as the unsung heroes and heroines. |
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What other director has given us so many powerful heroines as von trier? |
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Driven by a tremendous performance from Romola Garai that rekindles memories of the heroines in peril that Ingrid Bergman used to play with such gumption in Hitchcock thrillers, the film works well enough as a ripping yarn. |
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Less screen time for Lannisters, eunuchs, and armored heroines, more screen time for neon-eyed C. G. I. snarlers, staggering toward us in a grim blue-gray snow. |
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In 1611, Middleton and Dekker went straight for a copy of the weaponed-up Meg defeating a man who despises women in The Roaring Girl, which has been revived as part of the RSC's heroines season. |
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And is it so unsophisticatedly hungry for heroines? |
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More telling is the fact that both characters are instinctive paranoiacs, and that Aronofsky seems so quick to frame his heroines purely, and perturbingly, in terms of their hysteria. |
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The character of the plucky yet proper Alice has proven immensely popular and inspired similar heroines in literature and pop culture, many also named Alice in homage. |
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A major debate concerns whether the character of Price is meant to be ironic, a parody of the wholesome heroines that were so popular in Regency novels. |
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You think, Sir, you can account from my early secretaryship to young women in my father's neighbourhood, for the characters I have drawn of the heroines of my three works. |
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The artist who created strong, passionate, brilliant heroines turns out to have disapproved of bluestockings and refused to educate his own intelligent daughters. |
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