The Poet’s intention does not oblige him to place his protagonists beyond the reach of human infirmity, as we see in the stubborn wrath of Achilles, and in the awakened keenness of Ulysses for the blood of his rebellious subjects[865].
They surely must forget, that Homer does not seek to present us in his protagonists with a faultlessness which would have carried them out of the sphere, such as it was conceived by him and by his age, of life either divine or human.
He now leaned forward; the faces of the two protagonists seemed to be close together.
The room was strange and unreal, haunted in this early morning gloom by the ghosts of the protagonists who had stalked through it.
As the purpose of development is being redefined, it will become necessary also to look again at assumptions about the appropriate roles to be played by the protagonists in the process.
From the first, the spectator is led to divine that the protagonists are not brother and sister.
The nations by turns areprotagonists in the drama of progress; by turns are doomed to play the part of obstructive agents.
They came, heard, and departed; protagonists for a few minutes in a drama, then oblivion.
Even pronounced protagonists of Free Trade do not view this idea with disfavour.
As the turmoil gathered momentum, it swept remorselessly into its vortex the most powerful nations of the European continent—the chief protagonists of that highly-vaunted yet lamentably defective civilization.
Moreover the books and writings of these foreign protagonists form a very considerable part of the Socialistic literature of the United States and are considered as standard works on the subject.
High words followed; and the controversy became general, as the protagonistsin this psychological debate found backers, and swarmed away towards the centre of town.
Who is assigned the first place among the protagonists of freedom?
The greatest of these, our protagonists of freedom, was Benjamin Franklin.
In reply to the abolitionists the protagonists of the reactionaries said that but for the "intrusive and intriguing interference of pragmatical fanatics"[1] such precautionary enactments would never have been necessary.
Absurd plural uses: One of the protagonists of that glorious fight for Parliamentary Reform in 1866 is still actively among us.
It was a happy thought that placed in the hands of the son of one of the great protagonists of Evolution the materials for the biography of another.
As on a stage where all the protagonists of a drama assemble at the end of the last act.
By a tragic but rapid process of elimination most of theprotagonists have now been removed.
As for what the medium himself or his protagonists may think of them--for etymological purposes that is neither here nor there.
But most of the protagonists of this demand have shifted their ground.
The protagonists in the drama, which has the motion and structure of a Greek tragedy (Fy!
One of these immense protagonists must fall, and, as we have already foreshadowed, it is the Duke.
That letter is essential to a true understanding of the relations of the three great protagonists at this period.
Unlike a number of the leading protagonists in the Home Rule fight, Sir Edward Carson was not in Parliament when.
They are the conscious protagonistsof a long tradition of ideals that have once more been put in jeopardy.
Just as the Latin peoples are the inheritors of Greek ideals, so the German peoples seem to be the active modern protagonists of all that the Greeks meant by their term "barbarian.
Esmeralda and Quasimodo, Frollo and Gringoire are almost as much minors and supers in comparison with It or Her as Phoebus de Chateaupers and the younger Frollo and the rest are in relation to the four protagonists themselves.
As before, the author excellently conveys the place-feeling, so well indeed that I was sorry when the love intrigues of the two protagonists necessitated their quitting Africa for a more conventional Italian setting.
The chief expounders and protagonists of this doctrine are all directly or indirectly engaged in making or growing such articles as were formerly got by exchange with the Stronagu traders.
Among the phenomena of brazen effrontery he classes the fact that some of these loud protagonists of the right of women to assassinate unpunished were themselves women!
By the side of the robust protagonists of those stormy years they stand as figurines, not figures, and yet it was rather through their fate than through their fault perhaps that they are what they are in our Pantheon.
Naturally, after surveying much Virginia country once war-swept, as I came to the head of the Shenandoah Valley, I could not miss a visit to Lexington, where repose in honoured graves two such protagonists as Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
The respective protagonists being Perceval's sister, Sir Lancelot, and the young Queen of Garadigan, whose city has been taken by King Ris and who dares the venture to win her freedom.
Rome and the barbarians were thus not only protagonists but two different attitudes to life, civilization and barbarism.
Yet the tragic story, its main themes and protagonists were for all to see.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "protagonists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
