The blue and yellow eyes were following the heroine, who was gaily carrying a pail of water to what turned out to be her elephant. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the aisles of country churches and grand city cathedrals, witnessed by a whole society of approving family and friends, her heroines and heroes reached their innocent climaxes and needed to go no further. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“That sounds lovely,” Velia said sweetly, sounding like a heroine in one of those historical pieces on the arts channel instead of a modern-day girl stranded in the ruins of the Mexican countryside. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Sometimes there are said to have been two heroines of that name. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It featured a heroine in disguise, a perilous sea voyage, rogues and brigands, and deep forests in which to become lost, perhaps forever. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The heroine and Ignatius opened their mouths simultaneously, hers in song, his in a groan. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So far, it ran to minute descriptions of the lush furnishings of Sherry’s house, rhapsodies over Sherry’s exquisite clothes, and course-by-course accounts of fabulous meals consumed by the heroine. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Claudia was prepared to be the discoverer of great truths, Greenwich’s own heroine of the statue—and only twelve years old. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, the heroine had to seek work in a grocery store. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taking in the situation, he threw his wide minister’s hat clear across the stage in a dramatic but unseemly gesture, stepped stiff-leggedly to the machine and ground the coffee and thus saved the heroine. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Death is prophesied in Deirdre’s name, that of a heroine in Irish mythology who took her own life. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

If they had only known how frail was their iron-wili heroine. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The interview woman is delirious at the good fortune of meeting both sister and daughter of the heroine of the Fourteenth of June underground. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But happiness in marriage, as Austens heroine Elizabeth Bennet knows, is not only a matter of chance. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eyes that shone under the green visor were following the heroine and her elephant across the wide screen and into the circus tent. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What about heroes? I bet they’re just as bad as heroines.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then they would know she was a heroine, too. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The main character, Mary Richards, was a young, single woman who was interested not in starting a family—as practically every previous television heroine had been—but in advancing her career. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The home owners aren’t going to thank us for a job well done, and God knows, people on the street aren’t going to hail us as heroines of proletarian labor. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t say differently, I said different. I want to go back different. I, Claudia Kincaid, want to be different when I go back. Like being a heroine is being different.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Jane Austen novels, a death often precipitates the loss of a fortune, which propels the heroine to seek a husband. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heroine, believing her honor to be in question, had a series of paranoid fantasies in which she was lying on a bed with her libertine. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

How graciously Amy criticized the artistic parts of the story, and offered hints for a sequel, which unfortunately couldn’t be carried out, as the hero and heroine were dead. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fell asleep telling myself stories in which I was the heroine and Edmund the hero. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got it. The headlines will read, ‘Little Rock heroine gives in to segregationists—kills herself.’ Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t tell where the stories left off and the dreams began, her voice the voice of the heroines in my sleep. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are the martyred heroines of a holy crusade for freedom and human dignity. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now she wouldn’t have to be a heroine when she returned home...except to herself. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this case the death propelled our heroine to seek something else. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the foreground, on a trapeze, was the heroine. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too late to be an odori dancer for Papa, too late to be this kind of heroine. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blank portion was limited, for the narrow strip was crowded by lines of text and a tiny picture of a hero and heroine embracing under a eucalyptus tree. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

"I think we need to get one thing straight: You're the action heroine. You lead." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The plan was not his, but Medea’s, the heroine of the Quest of the Golden Fleece who knew through her sorcery who Theseus was. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was she a heroine if all she did was fix a mistake she made? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And much of that was thanks to cells from one woman, “an unsung heroine of medicine.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Katie was a neighborhood heroine for a while but as time passed, the neighborhood forgot the murdering pervert. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a relief not to be writing out the she saids, or describing the weather or the onset of spring or her heroines face—beauty, she had discovered, occupied a narrow band. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

My heroine would be myself, only in disguise. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He greedily studied the crowd and found the heroine standing near a sideshow. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the son of a distinguished king, a nephew of two well-known mythological heroines, and the brother of three. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They get enough of the heroines from everyone else. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Ring, he was much more interested in what his heroes and heroines felt than what they did. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

There were new ones, too, sagas about the heroes and heroines of Korea. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

But, you see, Jo wasn’t a heroine, she was only a struggling human girl like hundreds of others, and she just acted out her nature, being sad, cross, listless, or energetic, as the mood suggested. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more convoluted the story lines, the more I liked them, and I imagined that all the long-suffering heroines looked like me, or rather, that I looked like them. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Listening to all the talk about our being heroes and heroines made me proud of Mama and Grandma and all of us. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heroine was even more offensive than she had been in the circus musical. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It has no hero or heroine. It has no happy ending. But it’s a story you need to hear.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was her turn now to become a heroine if only she could come up with a brilliant plot. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

These heroines were always willowy and managed to land in graceful postures of repose, and were revived with the merest passing of a decorated flagon of smelling salts under their noses. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“But later, all those books made me puke. The heroines were so effing cheerful all the time. They were paragons of self-sacrificing womanhood. Like, ‘I’m starving to death! Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Facing him was the sad but stubborn heroine with the count beside her, and their horses, tethered to a nearby oak, were neighing and pawing the ground, impatient to be off. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I tried to remember what soap opera heroines said to their lovers, but I couldn’t compare this boy in shorts and knee socks to the manly Ricardos and Armandos. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I’m named for the great young Pashtun heroine Malalai, who inspired her countrymen with her courage. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

This fact is now generally accepted; and we do not have to try to find in every mythological heroine the moon or the dawn and in every hero’s life a sun myth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching him stand there in his suit, I can picture him in a black-and-white Hollywood romantic comedy trading witty banter with his heroine. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She had been prompted to start a diary because fictional heroines kept them and filled them with lush sighing thoughts. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A crisis in a heroines life could be made to coincide with hailstones, gales and thunder, whereas nuptials were generally blessed with good light and soft breezes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There was a villainess, also in love with the handsome young minister, and out to get the heroine. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heroes and heroines of the early stories face disaster. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pretty heroine would have to get on piece work in the factory; her sensitive brother would have to go out peddling papers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its heroine was Sherry Nola, a girl conceived, born and brought up in sweltering luxury. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heroines in books seemed to faint a lot, swaying genteelly onto a handy padded couch or into the convenient arms of some concerned suitor. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with blotched and swollen face, and red rims to my eyes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The difference between Euripides’ Medea and Apollonius’ heroine and also Virgil’s Dido is in its degree a measure of what Greek tragedy was. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was becoming too dangerous, the secret heroine of the whole nation. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When there was a heroine, she weighed very little, wore very little, and had had her teeth fixed. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I was almost exactly the heroine’s age when I read this for the first time. A teacher gave it to me—my favorite teacher. You know, Miss Larsen.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It had been planted that the delicate beautiful heroine wasn’t strong enough to turn the great wheel. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she’s there, her pale skin and watery eyes make her look glamorously tragic, like a literary heroine wasting from consumption. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

With the pale skin and dramatic dark eyes of a romantic heroine, Gabriela's face reminds Yolanda of the lover's clutch of hands over the breast. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The reckless passion of the heroine, Arabella, for a wicked foreign count is punished by ill fortune when she contracts cholera during an impetuous dash toward a seaside town with her intended. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

That is why he chose a pseudonym for me: Gul Makai, which means “cornflower” and is the name of a heroine in a Pashtun folk story. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As a Jewish woman, I don't 'look like' the lead of *many* beloved books I've read-- I don't look like a male hobbit, like a gentile Pioneer girl, like a Japanese heroine, like Harry Potter. Ava DuVernay’s Fiercely Feminine Vision for ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

The miscreants who enact the sparagmos of the heroine by tearing her into a hundred pieces are also female. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z

It’s as unswerving in its course as its heroine and just about as reverential. Review: ‘Joan of Arc’ and the Monotony of Sainthood 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

Our heroine works as a “lady’s companion,” sneeringly referred to as “staff” by an obnoxious maître d’ and mercilessly mocked by the lady and her friends. ‘Rebecca’ Review: A Classic Tale, but There’s Only One Hitch 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

The episode doesn’t revolve around the procedure, and the comedy’s heroine Annie, played by “Saturday Night Live” star Aidy Bryant, doesn’t express any trepidation over the procedure or fear any consequences. Lindy West's fearless revolution: On creating "Shrill," Hulu's brilliant new comedy 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

She sends her heroine, Andrea, back to the rough and tumble of the English/Scottish borders in the 16th century – where Andrea's view of herself is brilliantly transformed. Gillian Cross's top 10 books about being different 2013-04-25T09:34:00Z

Jane Eyre may lack fortune and good looks — she is famously “small and plain” as well as “poor and obscure” — but as the heroine of a novel, she has everything. | 'Jane Eyre': Radiant Spirit Blossoms in Barren Land 2011-03-10T22:30:15Z

In the ad, a nameless heroine runs through a dystopian setting, where a face projected onto an enormous screen commands a room full of conformists to obey. What reviewers said about the first Mac when it debuted 30 years ago 2014-01-25T18:00:00Z

In this balletic adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s books, the heroine is dragged into her adventures. ‘Alice’s Adventures’ in Ballet, Love Story Added 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

Morrison tells a good story, without excess or indulgence, and with touching empathy for his heroine. The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev by Simon Morrison – review 2013-03-30T08:59:01Z

In Emmy Curtis’s “Pushing the Limit ,” the hero and heroine are at odds of a different kind. Best new romance for November by Lauren Layne, Emmy Curtis, Elizabeth Boyle

Growing up in Nigeria, Adunni — the teenage heroine of Daré’s debut novel — strives for an education, but her plans are overturned after her father sells her to an older man. 14 New Books to Watch For in February 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

In both pilots, Hillaryesque heroines lobby for risky rescue operations in the Middle East and then watch via satellite as the mission unfolds. ‘Madam Secretary,’ ‘State of Affairs’ and Other Series Channel Hillary Rodham Clinton 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Its heroine retreats to her distorted idea of ballet and swans when she can’t deal with real life, but the swan aspect is entirely incidental. Dance Review: ‘Swan Lake’ by Australian Ballet at Koch Theater 2012-06-17T22:05:37Z

Cambridge University classics scholar, outspoken feminist, slayer of Internet trolls — Mary Beard is a genuine heroine in the United Kingdom. We still think like ancient Romans: “The clash between the demands of homeland security and rights of the individual? We haven’t solved that” 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z

Someone should alert the major art museum on the opposite side of Central Park that there’s one such heroine here. 10 Under-the-Radar Art Shows to See Now 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

But these heroes and heroines are all the more genuine for their imperfections. Taking Maurice Sendak's fantasies to the opera 2012-10-29T11:50:39Z

If you don't look like the heroines questing for real love – which is to say, with a few exceptions, if you aren't white and blessed with financially comfortable circumstances -- you might not relate at all. "Love, Victor" is Hulu's likable spinoff of "Love, Simon" that questions who gets a great love story 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

The final scene, in which the heroine willingly accepts death, was unbearably poignant. Charles Mackerras 1925-2010 2010-07-15T12:52:00Z

And Robyn, thank goodness, is a vast improvement on the milquetoast heroines of the “Magic Mike” franchise. In These Romance Novels, the Characters Are Sexy, Hot and Toting a Ton of Emotional Baggage 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Possibly some might call it a feminist novel, for the two heroines are stronger, cleverer and better balanced than their husbands and brothers — but we are sure Miss Cather had nothing so inartistic in mind. Review: ‘O Pioneers!’ by Willa Cather 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Since nothing is so labored over as a novel itself, I’m keeping this in mind for the following book review: The heroines of “Something Unbelievable” want nothing short of honesty. And Now, a Case for the Ordinary 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

Everyone wants to work at the telephone company, and our four heroines are among the lucky few; one also commits crimes. How Do I Fill the ‘Succession’-Size Hole in My Sunday? 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

I’ve come to believe one can take the sentimental temperature of a cultural moment by looking at its novels’ heroines. Two Novels for and About Lost Millennial Women 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

Ms. Manville’s performance makes us feel the urgent truth of those words, and the connection between the two heroines. Review: In Richard Eyre’s Production of ‘Ghosts,’ the Clean Parts Are the Most Disturbing 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

But more often, the production is as lovable as its heroine. Review: The Stepchild of Cinderella Operas Finally Makes It to the Met 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

I hope that this is merely a second act, and that there will be a third "Miss Don't Touch Me"that will allow our heroine to prevail. Comics: Vertigo Crime's 'Noche Roja' set on border of terror 2011-01-18T20:05:04Z

The heroine is Starr, a 16-year-old African American schoolgirl who sees her best friend shot dead by a white police officer during a stop and search. From The Hunger Games to Utøya and The Hate U Give: how cinema declared war on the young 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

The heroine of the version by Mr. Ratmansky is a princess, but one who invites us to laugh with her and at her. Signs of Choreographic Life: Alexei Ratmansky and Mark Morris 2012-01-27T19:35:36Z

For this performance, 10 dancers convey the stories of five important heroines from Indian mythology and scripture. Dance Listings for Aug. 5-11 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

“As Bobrow-Strain depicts his titular heroine, she is ebullient and indomitable, a smart, fiercely loving survivor,” the Times columnist Michelle Goldberg writes in her review. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

Hope and fear are wonderfully shared by both heroine and group. All About Odette, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Queen 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

She is also a minister's daughter and the reluctant heroine of this mid-apocalypse drama about a town where everyone over 21 dies. There's no growing old in the YA thriller 'Between' 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Hillary Clinton appears, as a character who interviews to be Murphy’s secretary, in a resumption of a running gag about how hard it is for the heroine to find good help. Reviving “Murphy Brown” and “Magnum P.I.” on the Post-Moonves CBS 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

He is adamant that the falsely accused heroine must be executed at the end “because … That. Happens.” Why James Cameron keeps getting that sinking feeling 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

A Suitable Girl is expected to move the action from 1950s India to the present day, where we catch up with heroine Lata, now as a grandmother matchmaking for her grandson. Vikram Seth in trouble over Suitable Boy sequel 2013-07-10T12:22:30Z

You could see that dancing well was a test, and that when Austen's heroines take the floor with the men they love it is in order to perform well together. Jane Austen: Strictly ballroom 2013-05-03T15:00:01Z

One story will focus on an unattractive heroine. In a New Comic, a Transgender Superhero Hides 2 Identities 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Finn tackles this contradiction brilliantly, especially given his agoraphobic heroine’s situation. Dangers Close to Home: Four New Domestic Thrillers 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

On meeting the novel’s serious-minded heroine, Dorothea, Lydgate acknowledges that she is attractive, but he feels that she is “too earnest.” The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

But the swell of financial support for I Am Elemental proves that there is a demand for more strong heroines in both toy stories and our culture. The Female Superhero May Finally Take Flight 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

She's also every bit as a tragic a heroine as anything Puccini could have devised.  Anna Nicole Smith returns from the dead 2011-02-18T16:19:00Z

When our statuesque heroine applies for a job as a store detective, the petite interviewer explains that the profession calls for someone unobtrusive. ‘Girl Waits With Gun’ review: A feisty heroine inspired by a real detective 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

Sometimes she dresses up like the heroine of a Victorian novel – she collected vintage clothes long before it was fashionable – or as Alice about to disappear through the looking glass. Francesca Woodman ? review 2010-11-21T00:08:00Z

Given this, it’s curious that he called his heroine Trishna, which is the second of the four noble truths, the foundation of Buddhist thought. ‘Trishna,’ From Michael Winterbottom, Starring Freida Pinto 2012-07-12T20:56:57Z

“You don’t say much,” says the man who flirtatiously sidles up to Joy, the young heroine of Lisa See’s latest novel. Books of The Times: A Comrade by Accident, a Seeker by Design 2011-06-09T21:52:53Z

Margaret Thatcher is a serious politician and she wants your vote … Who were your heroes and heroines when you were growing up? Margaret Thatcher v Smash Hits – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-04-09T11:25:08Z

Though Elizabeth Bennet is a noble, engaging and unique heroine, it's Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy Esquire we continue to talk about, more than a century after Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" was first published. Move over, Colin Firth – our favorite new Darcy is on "Fire Island" 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

Taylor Schilling plays "Atlas Shrugged" heroine Dagny Taggart, bent on saving her railroad company from collapse amid increasing government control and a mysterious phenomenon causing the nation's leading industrialists to disappear. 'Atlas Shrugged' finally comes to the screen 2011-04-10T05:00:00Z

Penn traced his affinity for alienated heroes and heroines to the trauma of his childhood. Arthur Penn, director of 'Bonnie and Clyde' dies 2010-09-29T16:16:00Z

Unfortunately, its heroine is just one in a series of underwritten characters. ‘Hell Is Empty’ Review: Sins of the Father 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

Alice’s name is no accident; Lewis Carroll’s heroine is invoked several times. Review | A former lover of Philip Roth has published a novel about a writer like Philip Roth 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

Over the next three years, his films continued to crash at the box office, despite Kapoor acting opposite some noted heroines. Shammi Kapoor obituary 2011-08-15T14:28:46Z

My Indian boyfriend fed me the loveliest lines, the ones only the heroines in movies get, that you never hear in real life. Modern Love: Adoration Trumped Differences, Until It Didn’t – Modern Love 2013-06-06T20:51:49Z

Without wishing to give too much away, Collins manages to contrive a way to get Everdeen back into the space where she flourishes as a heroine: the Hunger Games arena. Why Hunger Games 3 will kill one Mockingjay with two stones 2012-07-12T14:54:53Z

The extremes of Ms. Smith’s life inspired the music for the opera, he said, even if they didn’t immediately feel like an obvious connection to the opera heroines of old. Revival of ‘Anna Nicole’ Opera Comes to London 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

She later starred in the ill-fated musical version of "Carrie," playing the heroine's crazed mother. Why play Big Edie in the 'Grey Gardens' musical? Betty Buckley loves 'raw, naturalistic' characters 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

But the writers buried the character flaws and class limitations that made Mildred Pierce such a distinctive and modern heroine. | 'Mildred Pierce': Battling the Depression for an Ungrateful Daughter 2011-03-24T11:00:00Z

Artwork of DNA, ‘very much the heroine of Rutherford’s tale’. Creation: The Origin of Life; The Future of Life, by Adam Rutherford – review 2013-04-06T14:00:01Z

But in “Ninth House,” which is the first in a series, “the challenges faced by my heroine are different and don’t stop at one particular point,” she said. It’s Fall, So the Best-Seller Lists Are Brimming With New Books 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

I can't work up much interest in stories where the hero or heroine is "special" in some way. Philip Pullman: a life in writing 2011-03-03T12:00:00Z

Thanks to the composer Tchaikovsky and the choreographer Marius Petipa, the buildup to the heroine’s entrance in “The Sleeping Beauty” is the most potent in all ballet. Meet Aurora of ‘The Sleeping Beauty’: Her Native Language Is Classical Ballet 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

A big Texas novel deserves a big, feisty heroine. Books of The Times: ‘The Son,’ a Novel by Philipp Meyer 2013-06-19T21:01:43Z

Their Agent Carter doesn’t need to be super to be a heroine. Review: Agent Carter Delivers a Super Heroine 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

In this memoir, Bair revisits her early work: her National Book Award-winning life of Samuel Beckett and a study of her great heroine, Simone de Beauvoir. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

The connections are often indirect: Rosselini’s “Stromboli” for the comportment of Ingrid Bergman’s exiled heroine; Hawks’s “To Have and Have Not” for its portrayal of a romance forced by circumstances to develop its own language. Christian Petzold Directs ‘Barbara,’ Starring Nina Hoss 2012-12-07T23:53:01Z

"It's because they tend to lend themselves to date films, or girls go to be scared together. It will be interesting to see how they relate to a heroine." Woman in Black takes new direction 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

Arafat's heroine is no exception, but the author writes her with great tenderness and just enough self-aware dark humor to allow readers to become invested in this young woman's efforts to make herself whole. Brit Bennett's "The Vanishing Half" and 4 more must-read novels out in June 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

Cartoon heroines infiltrated fashion as early as the 1970s, when Thierry Mugler paraded a phalanx of intergalactic travelers on his Paris runway. When Comic Books and Catwalks Collide 2010-10-13T21:37:00Z

The Brighton-based author created her heroine after a chance remark by her archaeologist husband during a holiday on the Norfolk coast. Killer ideas 2011-07-21T08:32:25Z

"One of the things that I talk about is the heroine's journey as opposed to the hero's journey," said Soloway. Jill Soloway unpacks “white male liberal” Hollywood: “It’s patriarchy, even coming from t... 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z

But before Nora’s entire body is submerged in irradiated metals we see her cry out, and we’re fast-forwarded several years in the future, our heroine now wrinkled, her hair long and gray. How The Leftovers became the most ambitious show of the decade 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

Bridget Jones has never been a heroine of enchanting complexity, and if you choose to read this installment more than once, you will not glean new psychological insights or expose subtle gems of truth. Bridget Jones’s Latest Movie, Now a Novel 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

The stuff of classic melodrama but with a hard-bodied hero in place of the softhearted heroine. Audiences Are Finding Diversity at Summer Movies 2012-08-08T12:06:02Z

“Like the heroines of Cassavetes, I’m under the influence daily,” she sings, a little too on the nose, on the drifting “The Laughing Man.” St. Vincent Flirts With Autobiography and the Sounds of the ’70s 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

So was the show that she stood at the center of, not as a heroine but as something rarer: a protagonist who never pulled off the mask she wore but hardened it into a shield. Goodbye to “The Good Wife” 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

At 12, she wrote a school report on Anderson’s album “Big Science,” which she presented to her heroine decades later at Carnegie Hall. Anohni Isn’t Afraid of the Darkness 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z

Love in each ballet leads to the deaths of both heroine and hero. Review: In ‘Swan Lake,’ the Drama Depends on the Dancers 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

Such a formulation applied less and less to Adams’s mature work, whose heroines are certainly concerned with their own happiness, romantic and otherwise, but tend to be unhappy each in her own lonely way. The Decorous Surfaces and Fraught Subtexts of Alice Adams’s Life and Work 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

One of the great heroines of all time and a magnificent book filled with great dialogue. Anthony Bourdain: By the Book 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

But Anna is a likeable and memorable heroine who deserves her moment in the limelight. Review: The Very Thought of You by Rosie Alison 2010-04-20T12:57:00Z

Posing her question in character as Bella, the mortal heroine of the “Twilight” saga, she strikes an air of self-reflective resolve, undaunted by judgment or consequence. Critics? Choice: New CD?s by Christina Aguilera and Lil Jon 2010-06-06T22:04:00Z

Her favourite author is Jane Austen, whose heroines faced similar dilemmas. Elizabeth Jane Howard: 'I'm 90. Writing is what gets me up in the morning' 2013-04-06T23:05:23Z

And so the film rolls along to a predictable conclusion: Rockwell's Kenny isn't very interesting and Swank plays her heroine with supercilious blandness, and nothing like the gusto of Julia Roberts's Erin Brockovich. Conviction ? review 2011-01-13T22:29:01Z

A hasty marriage is just the beginning of heroine Edith’s problems. Jessica Chastain on How Crimson Peak Will Change the Way We View Women in Movies 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

Recognizing that he needs to prepare for a coming puppetry festival, the bereaved Geppetto tries to practice his old shows with his hero and heroine, the puppets Omino and Jenny. Spare Times for Children for June 21-27 2013-06-20T23:01:28Z

Still, his heroine’s lives often refract his own daydreams. Darren Star Finds Sex in Another City With ‘Emily in Paris’ 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

Reflecting a change in the zeitgeist, perhaps, and probably in the collective female psyche as well, some of the most recent chick-flick hits have not shown the heroine rushing into wedded bliss. How chick-flicks are breaking the conventions of wedded bliss 2012-06-01T15:30:00Z

The bucolic English countryside may seem a strange setting for the consumptive heroines and dashing heroes of classical opera, but country-house opera is a long-established feature of the summer social calendar. Garsington: A New Home for English Opera 2011-05-12T14:30:00Z

The heroine, Livia Stuart, is an orphaned gentleman’s daughter with an unfortunate lack of funds and no interest in social climbing. Sarah MacLean picks the best romance books to read this month 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

Its heroine, Marina, is a 23-year-old outsider who's largely disgusted by the idea of human contact. Attenberg, Dogtooth and the weird wave of Greek cinema 2011-08-26T23:04:02Z

Our heroine’s guilt over leaving Peeta behind — even though, or especially because, he’s been turned into a counterrevolutionary mouthpiece for Snow — overwhelms her fondness for Gale. Review: To Shill a Mockingjay - Part 1 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

And, OK, I can’t deny that my nonfictional wife and my fictional heroine share some personality traits: They’re both smarter than their husbands, for example. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

But, in the familiar habit of misogyny, this children’s story gives us a heroine who, for want of detail, is nothing more than a receptacle for male desire. Emma Watson’s Beauty and the Beast is a good start – we need more feminist fairytales 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z

In “Traviata” or “Camille” it’s the singular features of this story that matter: the heroine’s fatal consumption, the social stigma of her work as a courtesan, the brutal conservatism of Armand’s father. Dance Review: John Neumeier Makes a Feminist Point 2010-05-26T21:24:00Z

"Elixir," in a cute though derivative production by Jonathan Miller, updates the action to the American Southwest, where the heroine, Adina, runs a diner and the lovesick Nemorino works at a gas station. Review: NYCO mixes familiar with far-out 2011-03-28T16:46:04Z

The series features its own cloud character, Cumulo, who helps the heroine, True, by whisking her to destinations like the Wishing Tree. New at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade: A Sunny Little Cloud 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

“Today’s heroes and heroines work the soil,” she told me in 2008. A Farewell to Becky Wasserman, a Great Sage of Burgundy 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

While feisty young heroines – Princess Merida in Brave, Riley Andersen in Inside Out, Moana, Finding Dory – are becoming more common in the Disney-Pixar universe, Incredibles 2 is unusual in offering older, urbane, complicated female characters. How Incredibles 2 goes to work for the feminist superhero 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

In Nell Zink’s subversive comedy “Mislaid,” the white heroine and her daughter pass as black, moving undetected through a swamp of racism and white guilt. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

What’s left is a strange, sour tale that’s neither origin mystery nor journey of self-discovery, but a vexing gesture toward damage and delusion that never permits us to peek under its broken heroine’s hood. Review: In ‘Nancy,’ a Troubled Woman Seeks Connection 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Yet our heroine remains tormented by her origins. ‘The Year She Left Us,’ by Kathryn Ma 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

Fortunately, this social media inventor has taken time out from his spluttering, smoke-filled social media laboratory to share an elevator with our heroine. Tyler Perry's Temptation – an affair not to remember 2013-01-23T15:38:27Z

It’s hard to imagine White’s sensitive text, illustrated in Williams’s warmly effusive style, with an arachnid heroine who has eight eyes looking in all directions. Garth Williams, Illustrator of American Childhood 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

When our heroine falls into the Mathmos, a lake of pure evil, it creates a bubble around her to protect itself from her innocence. Why the new Barbarella comic will struggle to match the original film 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

As expansive and well-scrubbed as any of the floors the heroine is obliged to scour, this PG-rated treat rekindles the old Disney magic in a ballroom dance of two strangers becoming lovers. Cinderella Review: Disney Rekindles Old Magic 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope Trollope's anatomy of late Victorian England shows its up-to-dateness by having its heroine travel on the underground. Ten of the best: scenes on London Underground 2011-03-05T00:07:17Z

She was right; the heroine Giselle lives and breathes dance, dances for love and dances after death. Review: Paloma Herrera and Xiomara Reyes Give Farewell Performances of ‘Giselle’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Casually masquerading as the heroine of a racist novel and film in which Black people are portrayed as happy slaves is problematic. Can I Tell My Friend Her Halloween Costume Is Problematic? 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

The romantic tension between Troy and the film's heroine Bathsheba culminates when Stamp impresses his suitor with a private fencing display deep in the Dorset countryside. Terence Stamp: five best moments 2013-02-22T12:11:28Z

And as her tongue keeps flapping, she, too, becomes an existential heroine of sorts, a life force that persists even as it shrinks into nothingness. Review: ‘Social Security,’ the Heroic Poetry of Solitude 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Dominic Cooper plays vain indie-band drummer Ben, who also becomes entangled with the heroine. Tamara Drewe comic strip charms Cannes in film form 2010-05-17T16:33:00Z

Her feminist heroines focused on their booming business while also dealing with issues such as dead or divorced parents, diabetes and racism. ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ was always progressive. Now, Netflix’s version is empowering a new generation. 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

The writers also never passed up an opportunity to prove the show's eponymous heroine was the smartest and most capable person in the room. Before "WandaVision," there was "Agent Carter," and it was Marvel's best show 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z

Unlike Flaubert, Chopin declines to explicitly condemn her heroine. The Classic Novel That Saw Pleasure as a Path to Freedom 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

The heroine of “Madam Secretary” is a principled secretary of state who has to deal not just with enemies overseas but also traitors nearer by. Review: ‘American Odyssey,’ a New NBC Series, Stars Anna Friel 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

It all looks like the set of a Horst P. Horst midcentury photo shoot, or maybe the country mansion of some Edith Wharton heroine, packed up for winter. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

The heroine, who goes unnamed, was a diver in college. A case of shifting identities in Vendela Vida’s twisty new novel 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

A gentle and beguiling picture book with a spirited child heroine at its heart, it’s a fable for our troubled times. A Scheherazade for Our Times 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

The third season finale of the Fox comedy airs Tuesday, and Mindy Kaling--the eponymous heroine at its center--promises the usually totally chatty show will tone it down. Mindy Kaling talks 'Mindy Project' finale: 'The last five minutes are incredible' 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

The play is "an imagined conversation between Shakespeare's tragic heroine and her African nurse, Barbary, mentioned in Othello," says Joseph. In Pictures: London 2012 Festival 2012-04-26T09:00:18Z

The Duchess comes off as molten and cool at the same time, mixtures of heroines unable to cope with the acquisition and loss of money and attention. Ades' `Powder Her Face' opens NY City Opera season 2013-02-17T18:35:09Z

Reluctant heroine or not, Hill often evokes a passionate response, says filmmaker Mock, who has accompanied Hill at film-related events. Anita Hill in spotlight again as new film opens 2014-03-21T20:38:06Z

Ms. Johansson, who starred in “Match Point,” “Scoop” and “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” said in an e-mail that Mr. Allen “appreciates the versatility of the heroine, her ability to be both doe and lioness.” Woody Allen’s Distinctive Female Characters 2013-07-17T12:00:01Z

The heroine of this debut novel is Turtle, a 14-year-old who grows up feral in the forests and hills of Northern California. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Long before fans criticized Disney for taking liberties with their beloved animated heroine, poets, writers, playwrights and filmmakers had been creating scores of wildly different versions of the legendary woman warrior. Mulan, a Most Adaptable Heroine: There’s a Version for Every Era 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

So often in ballet, the more perfect the heroine, the greater her flaws. Review | The ballerina who fights back: In ‘La Bayadere,’ she won’t be manhandled 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

“Enlightened” is not as ambitious and allows its heroine to paddle in less exotic territory. Television Review: ?Enlightened? Stars Laura Dern on HBO - Review 2011-10-09T22:00:00Z

White folks are getting all of this sympathy and concern for being addicted to opioids and heroine and other drugs but black and brown folks get thrown in jail. The reality of life in a "Dopesick" country: "It is just a state of misery" 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

While Precious became a heroine working against the odds, Abdul is a more complex portrait, she said. Sapphire's "The Kid" won't get Hollywood treatment 2011-07-14T13:08:04Z

Through the years, Disney heroines have evolved, slightly, with the times. Tangled: ironically ever after 2011-01-14T15:00:18Z

Though its central romance is a bit too much of a bodice-ripper the strength of this tale lies in its formidable heroine, Mariko. Best science fiction and fantasy to read in May 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

The constant cloning of the heroine, and of the major villains, adds welcome and inscrutable complications to the plot. The Unusual Genius of the “Resident Evil” Movies 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Its heroine, Keiko, is 36, essentially friendless, a virgin and contented. ‘Convenience Store Woman’ Casts a Fluorescent Spell 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

Thus a two-sided, Japanese-style decorative screen portrays not such customary subjects as flowers or birds, but rather the imprisoned Joan of Arc, heroine of both France and the Catholic church in which Nakashima was raised. Review | In the galleries: Face to face with a world both beautiful and horrific 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

By upending traditional television lines between Russia and America — the heroine, after all, is an ex-KGB agent — the show seeks to interrogate our absolutist notions of right and wrong. Espionage hits home in NBC's 'Allegiance' 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

I mean, I talked to both of the women and asked if it was OK and I think they were kind of flattered to be heroines in the book. Fleetwood Mac is “the great American story” 2013-06-03T19:02:00Z

The show, like its heroines, remains fallible, a mix of unusual strengths and familiar weaknesses. Theater Review: ‘The Memory Show,’ at the Duke Theater 2013-05-10T17:35:52Z

Besides, it's a bit off-putting when you have a heroine bloodthirsty enough to behead all suitors who fail to answer the three questions she poses to each. 'Turandot' lures opera newbies and Puccini fans 2012-07-25T21:50:04Z

And now she plays a gothic heroine with supernatural powers. Eva Green: ‘I don’t want to be put in a box marked Weird Witch’ 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

In the middle of Bleak House, the heroine, an orphan named Esther Summerson, gets smallpox and goes blind. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 1: Bleak House 2012-02-07T09:59:35Z

It keeps us guessing throughout, about the nature of the freedom-fighting activity in which its heroine is engaged, and about Holcroft's intention. Double Feature 1 ? review 2011-08-04T21:30:05Z

I was like the 19th-century reviewers who condemned any novel where the moral failings of the heroine were not punished by death. My verdict on books I haven't read 2012-07-29T20:30:01Z

Opera doesn’t need its heroines merely to suffer. Cataclysmic Suffering Sprawls Through the Prototype Festival 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

My favorite heroine is probably Elizabeth Bennet in “Pride and Prejudice” — so witty and honest and so wonderfully human. ‘Her Prose Is Sometimes Poetry’: Why Margaret Jull Costa Loves Virginia Woolf 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

Defiantly gray-haired and wrapped in shapeless floral frocks, she makes Leonor a touchingly adamant heroine, one whose playfulness masks her need to mourn her lost child and vanished career. ‘Leonor Will Never Die’ Review: Rewriting Life, One Scene at a Time 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z

As “Matilda” celebrates its heroine’s resilience and smarts, it also honors the value of a caring teacher or librarian. Glitz, girl power vie for 2013 Tonys in a bumpy season 2013-06-08T15:42:35Z

In the week of International Women's Day, we turn our attention to literary heroines. Guardian Books podcast: Heroines and feminists 2011-03-11T12:03:00Z

This story will look at real world history and fictional DC Comics events and tell them from the perspective of Black heroes, as well as heroines who are Hispanic and Japanese. 10 New Comic Books for the Fall 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

She was often described as the quintessential Tennessee Williams heroine, a characterization Taylor did not dispute. Elizabeth Taylor, legendary actress, dies at 79 2011-03-23T13:57:00Z

In their leaner, meaner new movie, the Coens deliver a fiercer young heroine — and one rooted in what they described on Thursday in a phone interview with both brothers as a stiff, old-time Protestantism. Coen Brothers Saddle Up a Revenge Story (or Two) 2010-12-04T00:13:00Z

Odette, the ballet’s heroine, is a woman who has been turned into a swan by an evil magician. In Miami, Climbing Ballet’s Everest: ‘Swan Lake’ 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

Certainly you could draw a dotted line between Robyn and , another electro-pop heroine whose songs involve the drama of the dance floor. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Sarah McLachlan, Devo and Tom Petty 2010-06-13T21:44:00Z

Five minutes into this slender yet vigorous blood-spattered fable, two enemy guards enter to drag our heroine to the chapel — and she brutally kills them. ‘The Princess’ Review: Holding His Heart in Her Hands 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

For all Nénette's apparent documentary observation, its heroine is a red herring. Monkey business: primates on film 2011-08-03T20:00:00Z

Creators knew they had something when the opening song got a big laugh with the line about heroine Daenerys Targaryen’s long journey: “the girl in the desert could move a little faster.” Sex! Savagery! Singing! It's 'Game of Thrones' as musical parody 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

Mr. Lewis turned a traitor sympathetic, and Ms. Danes found the appeal in an unappealing heroine. The TV Watch: Two Faces of National Security on ‘Homeland’ 2012-09-27T12:49:42Z

The heroine converses with her friend about the anguish of separation from the man she loves, Sundaresa, the lord of Madurai. Dance Review: Ramya Ramnarayan at Ailey Citigroup Theater 2012-06-11T21:36:36Z

But we find our three heroines unscathed on a beach, taking it all in stride. Where the Other Wild Things Are 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

It was the correct answer for Jesse, the pristine heroine of The Neon Demon, who wafts her way through an LA inferno of vampiric runway models. Elle Fanning: ‘It’s a job, but it’s also about dressing up and pretending’ 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

This moment from “Fish in a Tree,” a world premiere from New York City Children’s Theater, reveals the way a social studies textbook appears to Ally Nickerson, the play’s 8-year-old heroine. How They Staged a Little Girl’s Inner Universe 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

With these worlds mysteriously intersecting, the book's heroine, Flynn, witnesses a murder, inadvertently putting her small town in danger. William Gibson coaxes the future out of the present 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

How she goes about that improbable mission, and with whose help, makes for a touching and suspenseful tale, even for listeners who are coming to Brown’s heroine for the first time. Audiobooks for Summer Trips With the Kids 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z

Philadelphia is the setting for Solomon’s short, sharp new book, “The Days of Afrekete,” but her heroine has grown up, married a White man and moved north to self-consciously Bohemian Mount Airy. Review | ‘The Days of Afrekete’ is a bitingly funny novel with echoes to ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

In forcing us into instant intimacy with its guileless heroine, “Roadkill” makes us feel personally responsible for what happens to Mary once she steps off the bus and into a town house in Clinton Hill. Theater Review: ‘Roadkill’ Bears Witness to Human Trafficking 2013-06-17T02:00:09Z

But “La Traviata” rises or falls on the strength of its heroine, and this one soars. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

“Togetherness” is what could happen to the heroines of “Girls” if they grow up only a little bit. ‘Togetherness’ Joins ‘Girls’ on HBO’s Sunday Night Roster 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

With its unpredictable sexual politics and quirky little hero/heroine Albert Nobbs has the edge of quinine, a peculiar taste that won’t entice everyone but worked for me. Albert Nobbs: Glenn Close's Quiet Man 2012-01-26T16:27:54Z

“There is not one clear enemy. It’s not about one side against the other. It’s really about people,” Niv Sultan, an Israeli actor who plays the “Tehran” spy heroine, says from Tel Aviv. With spy series ‘Tehran,’ Israelis reach out to an enemy 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z

“I’m filled with a sense of foreboding,” the fraught heroine says, “a wash of nameless dread.” Pushed From the Clock Tower, Buried in the Yard 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

For romances to work, the heroine should initially be involved with a possessive creep, a catatonic Wasp, a perfectly harmless fellow she's been dating for years, or Mr Wrong. Joe Queenan's guide to romance cliches 2010-10-16T11:00:00Z

Many of the stories in “Bark” suffer from being squished into contrived packages, intended to underscore similar realizations on the part of the hero or heroine. Books of The Times: ‘Bark,’ Lorrie Moore’s Meditations on Time 2014-02-19T20:59:55Z

CA: Who is your favourite fictional heroine, and who are your heroines in real life? Nancy Pelosi: We need more women in politics 2013-03-12T15:57:00Z

Her runaway hit “Gone Girl,” published six years after “Sharp Objects,” does something similar with its missing heroine Amy. The “Sharp Objects” finale and the dangers of white women’s tears 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

About midway through, you may feel like tapping Grisham’s heroine on the shoulder: “What do you mean, you can’t think of a plot? Look around you! You’re living in a dandy one!” In ‘Camino Island,’ John Grisham Takes a Vacation From Writing John Grisham Novels 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

With this three-dimensional portrait of his headstrong heroine, whose hard-gloss shell conceals a hard-fought vulnerability, Quinn achieves a distinct and unusual creation: a leading lady who is likable because of her unlikability. ‘I Am the Kind of Woman I Would Run From’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

Ada, the heroine, is a mute Scot who is sold into marriage to a New Zealand frontiersman. How we made: Michael Nyman and Jane Campion on The Piano 2012-07-30T17:30:44Z

In Sarah Lancashire’s stoic sergeant Catherine Cawood, it found a true heroine for our times, resourceful, funny and empathetic. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

Leigh, a feminist and aspiring playwright, is ostensibly the real heroine of the story, though Luke gets most of the attention. ‘Fallout,’ by Sadie Jones, a tale of passion and imperfect love in 1970s London theater world

Now Charlotte, a student at the School of American Ballet, is breaking a barrier herself: She is the first black Marie, the young heroine of “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker,” at New York City Ballet. After Misty Comes Marie. Breaking Barriers in ‘The Nutcracker.’ 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

Comyns’s hapless heroine’s vicissitudes follow the original story closely as she updates and rationalizes the extreme, weird sequence of murder and revenge. Evil Stepmother, Reimagined 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

So it was with “Gemma di Vergy,” which like a number of the composer’s other operas has a tragic heroine at its center and climaxes in a shattering closing scene. Opera Review: Donizetti's Birthplace Revives His Bel Canto Gem,' Gemma Di Vergi' 2011-09-20T12:00:07Z

The first glimpse of the heroine of the mini-series “Olive Kitteridge” is of her calves: thick and mottled above worn, flat shoes, trudging slowly and purposefully through fallen leaves. Frances McDormand Stars in ‘Olive Kitteridge’ on HBO 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

“A Girl Is a Body of Water” rewards the reader with one of the most outstanding heroines and the incredible honor of journeying by her side. Set in Uganda, This Coming-of-Age Story Contains Universal Themes 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

Another beloved heroine anchors Next Stop Theatre Company’s “Much Ado,” which is beachy, if not peachy. Bites from Shakespeare’s banquet 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

Mike Nichols’ hit dramedy, which turns 30 this month, was the makeover Griffith needed, a modern Cinderella story where the heroine is blessed with an iron will, not glass slippers. Working Girl at 30: the workplace comedy that changed the game 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

In “Hush,” the way he uses movie language to change perspectives — from the deaf heroine to the hearing outside world — is similarly inventive. Groundbreaking Horror Movies You Won’t See in a Theater 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

So if you see the heroine Clara dancing a romantic pas de deux with the Nutcracker prince, you’re watching an alternative version; I call this anti-“Nutcracker” behavior. 10 Ways to Tell if Your ‘Nutcracker’ Is Traditional 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

Their heroine, whose initial response to bad news includes a failed suicide attempt, rallies from her hospital bed. ‘Two Days, One Night’: Dardenne brothers take a star turn, enlisting Marion Cotillard 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

It was satisfying to see this heroine eat humble pie, but her voice wasn’t entirely convincing. Jen Lancaster’s ‘The Best of Enemies’ is a cheeky take on girl friends 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

Captain Marvel, one of the formidable heroines of the Marvel universe, will be getting a hero’s welcome in a new comic-book series that begins in January. Captain Marvel to Get New Comic Series Ahead of Big-Screen Debut 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

Things eventually go with a bang in Rebecca Atkinson-Lord's production, which makes the most of the wise-cracking comedy and boasts a fantastic performance from Georgia Buchanan as the increasingly unhinged heroine. The Sluts of Sutton Drive – review 2012-07-04T16:52:21Z

It’s a Cinderella story that’s sweet and achingly funny, featuring a hero with autism and a heroine who journeys to the United States from Vietnam after his mother attempts to matchmake a marriage. The best romance novels of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

When the heroine in “Compartment No. 6” gets into a car with a guy who has been giving her nothing but grief, you may silently shriek: What is she thinking? ‘Compartment No. 6’ Review: Strangers on a Russian Train 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z

The heroines of “Noces,” “Dybbuk,” “Goldberg” and many other Robbins ballets aren’t exalted or glorified; they express a particular sympathy on his part. Jerome Robbins, the Experimentalist 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

Here, Kakanias shares some of the things that his heroine saw and did. | Complicated Coats and Cabinets of Curiosities at Paris Couture 2013-07-12T22:04:50Z

Brooker's move to get comics to appeal to women follows the announcement last week that Marvel was planning to target "women readers" with novels featuring the comics heroines She-Hulk and Rogue. Comic-book superheroine Cat aims to see off gender stereotypes 2013-02-18T15:18:05Z

Then the show focuses on the tales of four heroines: Ariel, Rapunzel, Belle and, in her first appearance on ice, Merida from the movie “Brave.” Spare Times for Children for Nov. 30-Dec. 6 2012-11-29T23:33:06Z

But it does offer its fuzzy heroine simple strategies to vanquish the jitters. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

Set over the course of a single day, and centering on an eventful party, this debut novel by an autistic Australian woman charts the lively mind of its neurodiverse young heroine. New & Noteworthy, From Ants to Erin Brockovich 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

The inimitable Mary Wesley's Not That Sort Of Girl stars middle-class Rose, who, like many Wesley heroines, marries stuffy Ned for stability but carries on a sensational affair with half-French, artistic, scruffy Mylo. Fictional cravings: what are your storybook desires? 2010-03-25T13:30:00Z

Bristling at these remarks, author Jennifer Weiner, whose body of work consists largely of books with sympathetic heroines, wrote a defense of likable characters. Reese Witherspoon Isn't Nice and Wholesome in "Wild," and That’s What Makes it Great 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

It will run in repertory with Edward Anthony’s whimsical “Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath,” in which Esther Greenwood, the heroine of “The Bell Jar,” has a date with Olson the Magic Oven. Giving Voice to Sylvia Plath?s Pregnant Women 2010-09-25T05:00:00Z

The question now is whether Hollywood can turn the telescope around and discover a new kind of heroine, capable of evolving beyond muscles, machisma and mimicking the good guy with a gun. Perspective | Why female portrayals of power on screen need to evolve 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Holly Hunter was a promiscuous, alcoholic detective on “Saving Grace,” and the heroine investigator of “The Bridge” was on the autism spectrum in both the Scandinavian version and the American adaptation. Rainn Wilson Plays a Caustic Investigator in ‘Backstrom’ on Fox 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

The heroine’s name is Aurora, dawn—in other words, inevitability. Ratmansky’s Beauty Wakes Up 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

The French designer was at R & Company gallery in TriBeCa, talking about Miss Oops, the fictional heroine of the romance story he dreamed up for his new exhibition there. A Panorama of Design 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

What this suggested to her is that “the accomplishment the audience values most is not when the heroine saves the day or the hero defeats his opponent.” Lindsay Doran Examines What Makes Films Satisfying 2012-01-15T04:13:03Z

In the same missive, however, James also complimented his friend on her portrayal of the book’s heroine, the charming social climber Lily Bart, as “very big and true.” So You’ve Read ‘The House of Mirth.’ Now What? 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

In the intervening decades, she has become an internet curiosity and minor cult heroine among soul music aficionados who have spun crackpot theories as to her whereabouts and well-being. Jackie Shane, a Transgender Soul Pioneer, Re-emerges After Four Decades 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z

In a Hollywood dogged by its fair share of blank action heroes, a blank action heroine is certainly a statistical improvement. Violent femmes: Atomic Blonde and Hollywood’s new wave of killer women 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

And that she is a feminist heroine as well. Review: ‘Bad Reputation’ Argues for Joan Jett’s Importance 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

“Even as it strikes a gently irreverent tone, the film also embodies its heroine’s positive energy,” Ebiri wrote. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Immigration Nation’ and ‘Dora and the Lost City of Gold’ 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z

Instead, Ms. Hambling offers a defiant image of the kind of women Wollstonecraft called “neither heroines nor brutes; but reasonable creatures.” A Naked Statue for a Feminist Hero? 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

In all these cases, as in Ms. Bhabha’s grouping, it is two figures confronting one another — the Self and the Other — not just the depiction of a hero, heroine, goddess or founding father. A Sci-Fi Showdown at the Met Museum’s Rooftop Garden 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

Her “Wicked Play” series features a submissive heroine, a dominant heroine, a male/male/female ménage, and even a male/male storyline. “People are at their most vulnerable when they’re naked together”: The rise of erotic romance 2014-01-04T00:00:00Z

Propelled by James Newton Howard's nerve-teasing music and enhanced by Robert Elswit's clear-eyed, smartly positioned cameras, "Salt" moves ever forward -- pushing, pushing, pushing its heroine to greater feats every minute. "Salt" adds flavor to summer movie menu 2010-07-18T17:58:00Z

Who would the show find to equal the wealthy, colorful, surgically enhanced, backbiting, table-flipping heroines of those other cities? CAPITAL CULTURE: Move over Kate, Michaele's here! 2010-06-22T06:16:00Z

Hardwicke’s relentless film moves at a rapid-fire clip that doesn’t allow too much time for its heroine to think — and viewers shouldn’t think too much either. Try to keep up with "Miss Bala": Gina Rodriguez stars in this entertaining if bumpy ride 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

Ulinich’s graphic novel traces the marital and romantic adventures of her immigrant heroine. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

Clemons proves to be a feisty heroine whose invisibility in the eyes of others may be her secret weapon. "Susie Searches": A cautionary tale of a podcaster who finds a missing student & "insta-celebrity" 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z

So, in celebration of International Women's Day, why not tell me about your favourite heroines – now and when you were little. Where are all the daring women's heroines? 2011-03-08T10:57:47Z

The unpublished portrait of Bemelmans’s beloved heroine is a framed pen-and-ink drawing on cream paper. An Illustration from the Creator of Madeline Is on the Block 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

The exception is our struggling heroine, Annie, who stumbles across a grubby but entrancing painting in a junk shop and impulsively buys it as a gift for a man she’s been dating. ‘The Improbability of Love’ paints a romantic comedy about the art world 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

“This ballpark incident is the opposite: it’s about gossip and ‘fun’ and making yourself a ‘heroine’ on social media and nothing about caring about this husband. Twitter vigilantes gone bad: Stop live-tweeting takedowns of harmless strangers in public 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

Their heroine gamely poses for photo after photo, signing every manner of memorabilia. Review: Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, at Home in ‘Bright Lights’ 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

When “Fury Road” reaches for emotional grandeur it relies on the faces of its cast — Ms. Theron could be a silent-movie heroine, despite the noise that surrounds her — and on Junkie XL’s superb, full-throated score. Review: ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’: Still Angry After All These Years 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

“Jane the Virgin” revisited an early storyline about the heroine’s relationship with her graduate school creative writing teacher, exploring it anew through the lens of power dynamics and consent. The cathartic laughs of "Bombshell": Why dark comedy speaks to us in the #MeToo era 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

That the self-described “old Italian filmmaker” identified with his heroine in “Stealing Beauty” sounds comical. Film: Shifting Amid, and Asserting, His Own Cinema 2010-12-10T21:22:00Z

Introduce a young, woebegone heroine questing after a flying monster for glory and the reader can’t help chasing the dragon with her. Dragon Tales From the Authors of ‘The Girl Who Drank the Moon’ and ‘A Wish in the Dark’ 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

The corrupt politician is the putative villain of his book, the idealistic wayfarer his heroine. Henry Adams’s 1880 Novel, ‘Democracy,’ Resonates Now More Than Ever 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

Her near life-size ceramic figures of animals, sprites and fairy-tale heroines in moments of frozen intimacy are prickly and emotional in a way that’s hard to get over. Upstate Art Weekend Is Bigger Than It’s Ever Been 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z

Midway through American Honey, the film pulls in to the kerb, the action pauses for breath, and the heroine discusses her dreams with a passing trucker. Roof down, music up: American Honey and the neverending search for the American dream 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Over coffee, she and Ms. MacKinnon batted a few classical heroines back and forth. Uma Thurman, Ready to Be Tested 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

Macneal deftly paints her fictional heroine into the colorful lives of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, those radical reformers, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who strove to reinvigorate the arts. Review | ‘The Doll Factory’ is a guilty pleasure wrapped around a provocative history lesson 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

By placing her latest young heroine in the 1990s, Ferrante “slyly asks how decades of feminism have changed the world.” New in Paperback: ‘The Devil You Know’ and ‘The Lying Life of Adults’ 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

At that point, on television, there was no one like My So-Called Life’s heroine Angela Chase. Riot grrrls, beta males and fluid fashion: how My So-Called Life changed TV forever 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z

The heroine of “Cristela” on ABC is a student paying her own way through law school. ‘Jane the Virgin’ on CW and ‘Cristela’ on ABC 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

She was the Afrofuturist sci-fi heroine who shared a video with her brother Michael in “Scream” and leapt from planet to planet in “Feedback.” Janet Jackson’s ‘Unbreakable’ Is Right on Time 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

That is the only way one of the heroines of Charlotte Jones’s “Airswimming” could have been committed in 1924 England and find herself obsessed with Doris Day more than three decades later. Theater Review: ‘Airswimming’ at the Irish Repertory Theater 2013-01-27T21:15:33Z

But, as A. O. Scott writes, “‘Maggie’s Plan’ is a modest movie, reluctant, like its heroine, to make large claims or excessive demands. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘O.J.: Made in America’ and the Tony Awards 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

But, as she's running, our heroine realises that it's all too late. Cirque du Soleil – Worlds Away 3D: a leap in the dark 2012-07-04T16:35:15Z

She may be the heroine of this story, but she isn’t the center of her universe. ‘On the Rocks’ Review: Daddy Dearest and His Late Bloomer 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

Martha is another finely etched heroine, but of an entirely different sort. Review | Martha Gellhorn imagined she and Hemingway could form an unbeatable team 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

“Meek’s Cutoff” is as unsentimental and determined as Ms. Williams’s character, its absolutely believable heroine. | 'Meek?s Cutoff': Out on the Frontier, Bringing All That Baggage With Them 2011-04-07T22:33:01Z

When the #MeToo movement arrived, it made her look back at all the stories she had been teaching and see, as she hadn’t quite before, the need to elevate women’s voices — to find the heroines. What About the Heroine’s Journey? 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

But one question kept nagging me: does Bean admire his heroine because of her courageous independence, or because he believes she is right? The Heretic - review 2011-02-11T00:20:01Z

“Princess and the Frog” tries to transcend this issue by turning the heroine Green, the hero mocha and the voiceover Oprah. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z

And rarer still was the female power player who declares, as the heroine of “Equity” does early on, “I like money.” What Did It Take to Make ‘Equity,’ a Film About Women on Wall Street? 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

This unlikely comics heroine is twentysomething and single — more adolescent than adult, kind of desperate, a devout Belieber with a deep well of sexual fantasy, some of which is inappropriately directed at the then-underage singer. Without spandex or cleavage, artist Gina Wynbrandt creates a hapless, funny, very real comics heroine 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

As his faithful betrothed, Maria Clara, soprano Brittany Palmer performed with vocal subtlety and fragile stage presence befitting a tragic heroine. Filipino opera gets its Washington premiere at the Kennedy Center

As a public intellectual, she became a heroine to conservatives and a bête noire of liberals, particularly for her arguments that a little more virtuousness trumps any number of government social programs. Gertrude Himmelfarb, Conservative Historian of Ideas, Dies at 97 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

Sipping a mug of green tea, Morahan looks very little like these doomed heroines, but nonetheless possesses a quizzical energy that hints at her intensity on stage. Hattie Morahan: unhealthy obsessions 2011-02-01T22:00:03Z

The scheme gives her patriotic heroine character, Liberty Belle, an origin story. What to Remember Before ‘GLOW’ Comes Back for Season 2 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

Her understated acting seemed particularly natural in light of the more overwrought dramatics by recent heroines at the Met. Music Review: Hei-Kyung Hong Stars in Willy Decker?s ?Traviata? at the Met 2012-04-08T22:03:54Z

He also defended the choice of Smith as a subject for a major new production at one of the world's top opera houses, pointing out that many mainstay opera heroines led far-from-exemplary lives. Anna Nicole Smith to crash genteel world of opera 2011-02-15T12:23:12Z

Emily, whose name and fate are the same of the heroine of Wilder’s “Our Town,” strives to create a self-portrait by evoking jigsaw puzzles she assembled. Review: Remembering the Way It Was (Not) in ‘The Things That Were There’ 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z

Wilde's heroine, Gwendolen Fairfax, utters what might well be the author's artistic credo when she asserts: "In matters of utmost importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing." The Importance of Being Earnest 2010-06-11T20:29:00Z

The unnamed heroine of Ottessa Moshfegh’s new novel, “My Year of Rest and Relaxation,” is a kind of brand ambassador for ennui. A Sleeping Beauty Hopes Hibernation Is the Answer to All Life’s Problems 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

In this case, our heroines are exploring the inner workings of that undiscover’d country, the brain. What Parents Can Learn From Inside Out 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

The British actress Jessie Mei Li is appealing as the heroine, a cartographer who learns she has magical ability on an epic scale, which she is still trying to control in Season 2. Winter TV: 24 Shows to Keep an Eye On 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

"It's marvelous to see the children dressing up and learning about this great French heroine who's known all over the world," said Jacques Dubarre, dressed in a velvet mantel. France fetes Joan of Arc's 600th birthday 2012-05-01T22:16:04Z

Suicide, she said, was on her mind as she began preparing to play the titular tragic heroine. For the Oscars, Vying for One Best-Actress Slot 2012-12-12T23:38:51Z

While Headlong's current touring production of Mike Bartlett's sees Euripides' spurned heroine as a single mum living on a new-build housing estate. Trojan tragedy goes modern 2012-11-15T06:55:18Z

Well, thanks, Dr. Mireille Miller-Young, because now these two sisters, who might otherwise have been just a campus nuisance, have overnight become national right-wing heroines. Why you should never engage with an abortion protester 2014-03-14T14:11:00Z

In the journalist Joshua Prager’s ardently reported and painfully timely epic, “The Family Roe,” Jane Roe is both heroine and villain — and a paragon of human complexity. The Epic Life of the Woman Behind Roe v. Wade 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Margot, the heroine of this gorgeous debut novel, is the 17-year-old daughter of a prominent French politician and the famous stage actress who has been his unacknowledged mistress for decades. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Montserrat Caballé, its first modern proponent, who sang it on several stages in the 1970s, reportedly called it the equal of three Normas, the highly challenging title heroine of Bellini’s opera. Opera Review: Donizetti's Birthplace Revives His Bel Canto Gem,' Gemma Di Vergi' 2011-09-20T12:00:07Z

A novel with a heroine named Sunny and the title “Shine Shine Shine” creates an automatic impression of good cheer. Books of The Times: ‘Shine Shine Shine,’ a Novel by Lydia Netzer 2012-07-04T21:05:09Z

So she put her own heroine in exactly that preferred setting, and called her … "Jane" Eyre. Frankenstein or Dracula? A mix-up that may have done pupils a favour 2013-06-01T10:30:01Z

Here, Armentrout matches the perfect hero with a heroine with strength and power, and that partnership is as electric as the mystery is compelling. Sarah MacLean picks the best romance novels to read this month 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

If there is a problem with , it lies in Smiley's relationship with her heroine. Critical eye: reviews roundup 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z

Zhenya, the heroine, is arrested in 1937 on trumped-up charges of terrorism, brutally interrogated and slung into a steel cage with other supposed subversives. Into the Whirlwind - review 2011-01-23T17:59:34Z

Moreover, my heroine would value silence, not just in Meeting, but at all times. Point of view: Tracy Chevalier on the power of silence 2013-03-14T12:05:01Z

Today these traits would be unremarkable for a female literary heroine — standard, even, obsessed as we are now with the hazy notion of “strong female characters.” Perspective | Beverly Cleary taught girls to make a brave demand: Love me for how I am 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z

On “Homeland,” and also on “Black Box,” the recently canceled ABC medical drama about a bipolar neurosurgeon, hypersexuality is a symptom of the heroine’s condition. ‘Madam Secretary,’ ‘State of Affairs’ and Other Series Channel Hillary Rodham Clinton 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Like many romantic movies, features a heroine who women in the audience will likely want to emulate. 'Letters to Juliet' Review: Love's Labour's Found 2010-05-13T20:35:00Z

It's actually Daenerys' wedding reception, and it's seen through the heroine's eyes as a deranged Bacchanal -- a horror show that makes the oppression she experienced back home seem tame. Slate, New York Times to fantasy buffs: Grow up 2011-04-16T14:01:00Z

Could a heroine like that ever fail to be captivating? "Emma." is the candy-coated "Clueless" remake we deserve 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

What happened to him and our heroine in the years since he tried to steal her presents is the subject of the show. Review: ‘Who’s Holiday!’ Is a Raunchy Riff on Dr. Seuss’s Yuletide Tale 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

Wandering in a private garden is no longer reserved for literary heroines, supernatural creatures or the obscenely wealthy. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

Hunter is known for her brilliant, compelling heroines, and Marianne is one of her best. Best romance novels to ravish in early summer 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

Colette’s earliest books, the “Claudine” series, follow the heroine from her youth as a rebellious teenager to her maturity as the toast of avant-garde Paris. The Essential Colette 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

They are not only visible, they are the story’s heroines. What it's like to live in Kentucky and sell your debut novel to Hollywood 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

"This year I am 90; I felt I had lost touch with the kind of young woman who was to be my heroine." Age is more than a number in the literary world 2010-07-01T09:00:00Z

In the second half of the novel, Collins loses his nerve and subordinates and constrains Fosco and Marian in favour of the pallid official hero and heroine. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z

In Ms. Marvel, published by Marvel Comics, the heroine confronts a campaign to bring back “the real Jersey City,” which starts by making her Muslim family unwelcome. Comic Books That Put the Pow in Political Power 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

Marnich is a bit too much in awe of her heroine, Catherine Donohue, who, despite suffering bone cancer and necrosis of the jaw, takes on the company. These Shining Lives – review 2013-05-16T17:24:09Z

Still, a medieval abbess is a challenging heroine — living, as she does, a millennium away from us, suspended in that dim historical period long after the Romans but centuries before Shakespeare. Review | In Lauren Groff’s hands, the tale of a medieval nunnery is must-read fiction 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

In a cynical coda to each video, the death metal cuts off, our heroine clicks her heels together and purrs, “Tomorrow is a new day!” How Sanrio Makes Anti-Capitalism Adorable, and Profitable 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

Occasionally, she presents Vanessa in such a harsh light, some readers may be frustrated by our heroine, and that’s okay. Review | ‘My Dark Vanessa’ is being described as ‘Lolita’ for the #MeToo era. It’s more than that. 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

This one features an evil troll queen who has put a curse on the prince and turned him into a bear, and a glass mountain that the heroine has to climb. New Edinburgh act of the day: The Wrong Crowd 2011-08-19T15:51:53Z

Her heroines pass through familiar experiences — coming of age, falling in and out of love, pursuing creative ambitions — in unusual ways, generally indifferent to the rules of genre. Review: In ‘Maggie’s Plan,’ Greta Gerwig Aspires to Motherhood on Her Terms 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Even though she's married, the social media inventor decides that our heroine must be his. Tyler Perry's Temptation – an affair not to remember 2013-01-23T15:38:27Z

A similar sort of detective work animated “The Lost Father,” with its heroine calling the F.B.I. and seeking relatives to track down her father. Books of The Times: In ‘Casebook,’ Mona Simpson Explores a Family 2014-04-14T21:15:11Z

In “Sula,” the main character is such an upsetting heroine that her return to a town in a poor black part of Ohio is “accompanied by a plague of robins.” ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Pin, a 14-year-old girl who dresses as a boy, is her unlikely heroine. Review | Disguised as a boy, the heroine of ‘Curious Toys’ finds freedom — and answers 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

There is no right or wrong choice, as the success of Sue Grafton can attest — her heroine, Kinsey Milhone, has aged less than 10 years over 24 novels. Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch is still fighting the good fight in 'The Wrong Side of Goodbye' 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

But the session would lead to her voice being forever associated with one of Disney's enduring heroines, Cinderella. Ilene Woods obituary 2010-07-19T17:01:00Z

Like her creator, the story’s heroine, left distraught by a death in the family, finds joy in the world of music that, to her distress, leads to an infatuation with the composer himself. ‘Kreutzer Sonata Variations’ Has a Scorned Wife’s Rebuttal 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

In her hands, the possessed become bug-eyed, skeletal zombies as difficult to subdue as teenage heroines in dystopian movie franchises. In ‘Asmodexia,’ Evil Infects Souls Like a Plague 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Only in this case the heroine ends up trying to hide the dragon rather than expose it. Dragon Tales From the Authors of ‘The Girl Who Drank the Moon’ and ‘A Wish in the Dark’ 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

Ms. Stevens’s own words are much more effective and well chosen than are those of her angry, damaged heroine. Books of The Times: Chilling Abduction in Chevy Stevens?s ?Still Missing? 2010-07-04T21:49:00Z

But by bringing Ms. Hamilton back to the “Terminator” series, he’s breaking new ground in his use of action heroines once again. She’ll Be Back ... but What Will Linda Hamilton’s New ‘Terminator’ Be Like? 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

The first part depicts the heroine’s toothache consequent to the loss of a very valuable watermelon, her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Carrie Brownstein, Carly Rae Jepsen and Others on First-Time Cultural Experiences 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z

Newman renders the Split Worlds with verve and an infectious sense of fun, and presents in Cathy a strong and personable heroine. Science fiction – review roundup 2013-05-08T08:00:02Z

This reboot of the classic “Little Red Riding Hood” gives us a heroine who’s wised up from the start to the wolf’s trickster ways. The New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2016 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Its heroine is an 18-year-old girl named Aden Sawyer who lives in California and goes to Pakistan with a friend. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

An unsung heroine of American music gets her due and proper in the 2015 doc "Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band." TV This Week April 12- 18: 'Games of Thrones' on HBO 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

And while many of the movies feature women who are the heroines of their own lives, the stories and their endings don’t always fit contemporary feminist ideas and ideals. Thrills, Tears and the Real Gone Girls of Cinema 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

And the community’s residents aren’t as interesting as the wild array of heroes and villains stalking “NOS4A2,” a book whose heroine and villain were indelible. Review: In Joe Hill’s ‘The Fireman,’ a Plague That Sends People Up in Flames 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

The painting, currently on display at the Colnaghi Gallery in London, dates from 1607 and depicts biblical heroine Judith beheading the Assyrian general Holofernes. Long-lost Caravaggio painting to be auctioned in June in France 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

Batuman describes the heroine of her first novel, Selin, as “the world’s least interesting and dignified kind of person”: an American teenager. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

There, Joseph Cotten was the charming, enigmatic Uncle Charlie, who drops into a suburban American family to fascinate and frighten the young heroine played by Teresa Wright. Stoker: Gloom with a View 2013-03-01T04:30:31Z

If “The Essex Serpent” never unearths an actual dinosaur, it more than compensates by excavating the character of its extraordinary heroine, a woman determined not to let anyone repress her again. The most delightful heroine since Elizabeth Bennet 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

At many crucial points, they’re given showy, superficial Soviet revisions of the original choreography, depriving the opposite heroines of ambiguity and depth. Opposites Who Reveal Ballet’s Expressive Range 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

"The Trouble With May Amelia" opens in 1900 — a year after the first book takes place — and our 12-year-old heroine is still living on a farm near the Nasel River in Washington state. Newbery-kissed writers offer winning new reads 2011-07-30T02:58:23Z

In another episode of “Snow,” a heroine reclines, and sounding more like Mr. Move than Graham herself, intones a verbal monologue that is an exercise in pretentiousness. Dance Review: Lauding a Great Artist With No Example of Her Greatness 2011-03-16T21:49:32Z

Rudolf — like so many heroes and heroines of that century’s dramas and novels — seeks redemption, escape, alternatives. After Flood, Houston Ballet Returns With a Romantic Masterpiece 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z

This slender and sardonic novel, already a prizewinning best seller in France, features a middle-aged heroine as a drug-running crime boss and offers an entire ethnographic study of North African immigrants in the Parisian suburbs. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Sadness sits lightly on the small shoulders of Josephine, the heroine of “Nice Girl,” a tenderly drawn drama by Melissa Ross about stunted lives in a middle-class suburb of Boston. Review: In ‘Nice Girl,’ a Sudden Ray of Hope in a Dead-End Life 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

This is one Shakespeare play where the heroine is much more charastmatic than the hero. Theatre picks of the week 2010-04-30T23:14:00Z

“It was just that the point of view of a Disney heroine is this; it isn’t somebody who does this. That was hard.” The Same Woman Wrote Maleficent and Beauty and the Beast—Here's How They're Linked 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

Eclipse finds its 18-year-old heroine Bella as insecure and uncertain of her place in the world as many another troubled teen. Twilight: the franchise that ate feminism 2010-07-12T16:07:00Z

In 2008, after a long absence from the stage, she danced the heroine of Balanchine’s “Serenade” when the company was performing at the London Coliseum. Dance Review: Janie Taylor and Sébastien Marcovici Depart City Ballet 2014-03-02T23:25:56Z

"I May Destroy You" completes its heroine's journey by expressing this wisdom through multiple possibilities, all of which conclude with this singular truth. "I May Destroy You" ends with a revolutionary "ego death" because the other options would be a lie 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

A mother, a cancer survivor and an avatar of culture, sensuality and intellectual independence, Clara is a fittingly embattled and indomitable heroine for our times. The Best Movies of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

It’s been 20 years since a Hollywood animated film featuring a Chinese heroine opened in China. DreamWorks, Shanghai studio hope ‘Abominable’ suits China 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

All of this is not to say that “Supergirl” features a heroine who has leapfrogged over the usual quarter-century, post- collegiate qualms. The real key to ‘Supergirl’s’ success? Millennial wish-fulfillment. 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

Cummings acknowledged that Krazy’s gender was fluid, but still identified the feline as female throughout, calling “our heroine” Krazy “the adorably helpless incarnation of saintliness.” The Gender Fluidity of Krazy Kat 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

“Gwen is a true heroine, whose creativity represents all the young female rebels at heart,” Mr. Williams said in an email. Gwen Stefani Climbs Back From the Abyss 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

It turned Ms. Jong into a feminist heroine of sorts and avatar of female sexual liberation, and helped propel and define her career. Erica Jong’s ‘Fear of Dying’ Defies the Sunset of Sex 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

The heroine, the beautiful, 34-year-old Marcie, is married to the older, richer and slightly dodgy Jason, who left his first wife for her after their torrid affair. Need a Distraction? These Thrillers Will Have You on the Edge of Your Seat 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

The film is a reworking of the classic fairytale, with Stewart as a more powerful heroine, who is locked up by the evil queen for a decade, before escaping and becoming a warrior. Kristen Stewart: 'Twilight was so intense. I'm still a very intense person' 2012-05-17T19:00:02Z

"She most of all is a really warmhearted, really funny, really clever, really compelling heroine who was doubly betrayed." Why the monarchy needed Diana: "She had to be a front-rank aristocrat, and she had to be a virgin" 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z

The heroine of “Galápagos Regained” is a young actress named Chloe Bathurst, another of Morrow’s brilliant female characters caught in the confluence of intellectual revolution. James Morrow’s satiric novel ‘Galápagos Regained’ takes on Darwin and God 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

The introductory caption read: “Is the put-upon housewife and mother becoming passé as a TV heroine? In these four shows, among those launching the new season on CBS, she’s been replaced by the career girl.” Looking Back (and Learning From) ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

But even on that show, the heroine’s minority status was stressed. ‘Jane the Virgin’ Ends a Strong First Season 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z

With its unconventional heroine and unflinching portrayal of an abused girl’s fight to save herself, “My Absolute Darling” seems poised to become the breakout debut of the year. A Debut Novelist’s Descent into Darkness 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z

Cassavetes chatted with Salon about her life, her film’s heroine, and her career, as well as her observations on Hollywood. “You can’t make up the viciousness of Hollywood”: Zoe Cassavetes skewers the family industry and how it treats women over 40 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

As the afternoon rain came down, I felt like a wild-hearted heroine myself, a lone player on some disused 1930s Hollywood set. How a trip to Mexico with a 1972 travel guide helped ease my broken heart 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

Last year’s offerings included a parkour video game with a young heroine and an “interactive storytelling plush octopus companion for children.” Zine Fest returns to L.A. this weekend for bookish #DIY fun 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Theron’s physical performance may overcome her dodgy English accent, but it’s hard to flesh out a heroine who is so frustratingly enigmatic. Violent femmes: Atomic Blonde and Hollywood’s new wave of killer women 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

Ms. Rhimes is a romance writer who understands the need for more spice than sugar; her heroines are mysterious, complicated and extravagantly flawed, often deeply and interestingly. Viola Davis Plays Shonda Rhimes’s Latest Tough Heroine 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

“The Playboy Club,” a short-lived NBC drama set in Chicago in the 1960s, made sure that the sole black bunny was treated by the heroine with dignity and deference. The Tv Watch: ?Mad Men? Opens its Fifth Season on AMC 2012-03-22T21:40:54Z

She’s a moral warrior heroine, a beauty with dragons and magic attached to her, and, when we’re lucky, muscle-bound lovers who don’t wear conventional shirts. Season 5 of “Game of Thrones” 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

Related: Glenn Close: Sunset Boulevard heroine is 'part of fabric of my being' This week it was Glenn Close, 68, who was ready for her closeup. Glenn Close: critical acclaim built on strength of character 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

Sugiko returns to her old post, much as the heroine of “When a Woman Ascends the Stairs” would do years later. Video: A Master?s Baby Steps 2011-03-19T01:24:54Z

Ella, as the heroine is now called, is a cunning tomboy who has an affinity with nature. Cinderella – review 2012-12-19T18:46:18Z

The overt sexism is still there, and it is exhilarating to watch the heroine take on and outwit the Neanderthals in her squad — a flashback to “Cagney & Lacey.” | Television: ?Pan Am,? ?Playboy Club? and ?Whitney? New on TV 2011-09-16T15:26:17Z

The heroine of the show, which closes this weekend, is a tiny cutie who is nonetheless much bigger than anything scurrying around your basement. Spare Times for Children Listings for March 18-24 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Alma is the lively, thoughtful heroine of “Alma’s Way,” a new animated PBS Kids series set in the city’s melting pot Bronx borough and featuring a Puerto Rican and biracial extended family. PBS Kids introduces a 6-year-old heroine with ‘Alma’s Way’ 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

Many fictional works feature the hardships of girls who are accused of being witches, but Ellie, this musical’s heroine, finds that it’s just as bad to be thought an angel. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

Rebecca Hall is our heroine and Bruce Willis her grouchy boss. Every Stephen Frears film – ranked! 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

She plays one of our heroine’s opponents, who dives to the floor alongside her midgame as they scramble for the ball. The Director Gina Prince-Bythewood Has Always Had Game 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage doesn’t fit the mold of a conventional heroine, or even the mold of a conventional antiheroine. Review: A ‘Mother Courage’ Deployed to Africa 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Many of ballet’s repertory staples date to the 19th century, featuring the dainty heroines and princely heroes of the Romantic era. A Nonbinary Swan, on Pointe 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

At the pool, DeJesus met me outside, her crop of short reddish hair and bright green shorts reminiscent of a certain under-the-sea heroine. Mermaiding is trendy. I hit the water in monofin and tail to see if it’s also a workout. 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

Ms. Offill writes about this child with the same intuitive understanding she brought to the child heroine of her haunting first novel, “Last Things.” Books of The Times: Jenny Offill’s ‘Dept. of Speculation’ 2014-01-29T20:35:18Z

We can see why the heroine, Marie, is perplexed that most of those she knows and loves can’t see or believe the things she experiences; we can also see why they don’t believe her. Critic's Notebook: Tales Within Tales Create a Tale of Two ?Nutcracker? Productions 2010-12-01T08:00:00Z

Still, "Dreadnought" offers plenty of fun: fast-paced battle scenes, thundering locomotives and the gem of the book, its heroine. 'Dreadnought': Cherie Priest's steampunk saga of a Civil War nurse and a big bad train 2010-10-01T22:00:00Z

The original inspiration for “Lucy” — a woman who defies expectations — is a signature of many of Mr. Besson’s films, especially women who transform themselves into unusual heroines and persevere in violent tales. Scarlett Johansson Gets Superpowers in Luc Besson’s ‘Lucy’ 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

If only the storytelling in “Treasure Island” had the clarity and grace of its heroine’s pipe dream. Review | Jane Hawkins takes center stage in Synetic’s reimagined ‘Treasure Island’ 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z

Her work as a crime reporter made her want to complete the fragmented stories on which she worked, leading to her heroine Clare Hart. Michael Stanley's top 10 African crime novels 2010-06-30T14:27:00Z

“Schiap,” as she was known, was a heroine of surreal style in the 1930s, when she worked closely with the artists of her era. Dream Dialogue Between Schiaparelli and Prada 2012-05-07T11:30:28Z

His hopes for his future rise when an acquaintance arranges the interview with Kathi, “heroine of film, television, maybe my life.” This Movie Star’s Only Hope Is Help From Her Personal Assistant 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

She performs the role of the young heroine, Marie-Claire, who matures into a grown woman — the Sugar Plum Fairy — by the end of the evening. This ‘Nutcracker’ celebrates openness, diversity and glitter G-strings 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Onstage the drama alternates between two dancing heroines: Dido, queen of Carthage, and the Sorceress. Dance Review: ‘Dido and Aeneas,’ From Mark Morris, at Mostly Mozart 2012-08-23T22:03:45Z

Among the earliest embodiments of this dichotomy was the tragic heroine Antigone, who sacrificed herself in the belief that higher principle trumped her own survival. 'Jean Anouilh's Antigone,' Greek mythology for the selfie era 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

The heroine of Meyer's story is so deep undercover that she doesn't even have a name; Alex is her primary alias. Without 'Twilight's' supernatural chill, can Stephenie Meyer still thrill readers? 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

But Ms. Semple adores her heroine too much to treat her lightly. Books of The Times: ‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette,’ a Maria Semple Novel 2012-08-06T18:53:15Z

Instead of a strong, silent cowboy rescuing a helpless heroine, we have an emotionally vulnerable bandit rescued by a gun-toting, poker-playing, independent woman. When Puccini Rode Tall In the Saddle 2010-12-03T19:38:00Z

When she did, with 1990’s Blue Steel, her heroine was a cop who falls for a psychopathic killer. Kathryn Bigelow on Detroit: ‘There’s a radical desire not to face the reality of race’ 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

Readers were drawn to its tale of female empowerment — with her ability to channel emotion through cooking, the heroine changes her destiny — its frank discussion of female pleasure, and its folksy tone. It’s Story Time at Ballet Theater, With a Best Seller Twist 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z

I always find it commendable when a producer wants to create a powerful, interesting, compelling female heroine — whether on the side of good or bad. Why Sigourney Weaver Didn't Want Her 'Defenders' Villain to Be a "Cold Ice Queen" 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

As the heroine, the soprano Devon Guthrie was a faint Daisy, and the mezzo-soprano Krista River was not nearly strong enough a voice or presence for Jordan. Music Review: John Harbison’s ‘Great Gatsby’ Opera at Tanglewood 2013-07-14T19:50:12Z

She is no sword-wielding heroine but a terrified teenager unskilled in duplicity or self-defense yet determined to rescue her brother. The best children’s books for May 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

Apparently, the bodice-ripping template of endangered heroine plus rescuing hero followed by perfect consummation is distorting readers' ideas of what they can expect from real-life relationships. Does what you read affect your sex life? 2011-07-08T12:29:11Z

Wade — emerges as a contradictory figure, both heroine and villain of her story and one whose views on abortion are as complex as those of her fellow citizens. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Neither the married lover in “Conversations With Friends,” nor Marianne’s sensitive boyfriend in “Normal People,” is willing to strike the heroine, despite her requests. Heroines of Self-Hate 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z

And it was important to find a Jane that, even though the movie takes place in the 1880s, was a modern heroine. Alexander Skarsgard, of Sound Mind and Body to Play Tarzan 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Sally Wainwright’s drama based on the diaries of the 19th-century Yorkshire landowner Anne Lister continued, in its second season, to be as intelligent and lively as its powerhouse heroine. Best TV Shows of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

"I'm a fan of strong women, and I like seeing them on screen," Holmes said of the vigilante heroine she portrays in the film. Katie Holmes, armed and dainty in vigilante satire 'Miss Meadows' 2014-04-23T13:04:51Z

The male establishment of the law, politics and the press ganged up and Douglas’s career was crushed although her courage in taking on the system has since made her a heroine. Last Tango scandal shows toxic extent of male power in the film industry | Peter Bradshaw 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

After months of the ups and downs of being in the public eye, the Mercury 7 wives had to contend with a new set of heroines in the mix. ABC's 'The Astronaut Wives Club' Episode 4 "Liftoff" Does The Same In Ratings 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

She updates the story for the modern era — with a Latina heroine. A Latina Anne of Green Gables: Andi Teran on 'Ana of California' 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

The way Davis introduces her eponymous heroine make the title seem to refer to a punitive sentence as opposed to a love note’s sign-off. “Smart Watch”: From “Sally4Ever” to “This Is Us,” there... 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z

The other women are passive-aggressive and perfect, the very opposite of our broken heroine. why its ok to be bad | Eva Wiseman 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

Despite spray tans and brief stints as a blonde, she could rarely convince producers to see her as the heroine, the nice girl. In ‘Fatal Attraction,’ Lizzy Caplan Makes a Mess 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

The heroine of the novel, Fanny Price, brings up the subject with her uncle, and notes that "there was ... a dead silence" in the room following her mention of this uncomfortable subject. Stranger fiction 2011-08-01T11:53:49Z

Among those tolling the bell is Sarah Churchwell, the cultural critic and American professor of literature at the University of East Anglia, for whom Bacall was the last in a line of strong, mature heroines. Why no future Hollywood star could ever match Lauren Bacall's allure 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z

The production’s sharpened focus on moral ambiguity extends even to Willow Geer’s steely, unsentimental turn as Portia, the quick-witted ostensible heroine who disguises herself as a lawyer to turn the tables on Shylock. Shylock, revisited, in Theatricum's 'Merchant of Venice' 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

The red plush seats were frayed and the popcorn had real butter, and the heroine bore a stunning resemblance to Debbie Stone, who he hadn't thought about for years. Dad always fell for the wrong women 2011-04-25T15:21:00Z

Instead I end up rereading the passage in which Grey’s heroine first arrives in the canyon: In Sedona, Ariz., biking a landscape that embodies the romance of the American West 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Treadwell wrote dialogue in which clichés hammer, relentlessly and insensibly, at her heroine. Theater Review: ‘Machinal’ Examines a Wife Driven to Kill 2014-01-17T03:00:02Z

However, as with previous Weisberger heroines, failure doesn’t provide the wake-up call that success does. The devil wears Puma in Lauren Weisberger’s ‘The Singles Game’ 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

But “Tightrope” is full of satisfying twists, and we can’t help cheering for its tough, resourceful heroine. In Simon Mawer’s ‘Tightrope,’ a Female Spy Masters the Tools of Her Trade 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

In the past year or so, films featuring complex pregnant characters have included the post-apocalyptic Oscar-winner Mad Max: Fury Road, in which a harem of young women are rescued and empowered by feminist heroine Furiosa. From Rosemary's Baby to Bridget Jones: a quick scan of pregnancy on film 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

The narrator, coolly evasive in the way of Rachel Cusk’s heroine in the Outline trilogy, relishes how travel and growing older allow her to become invisible. Fables Leap Back and Forth Through Time in ‘Flights’ 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

In the amusing, mildly raunchy Paris film her heroine Marion takes her American Jewish boyfriend to meet her eccentric French family. 2 Days in New York ? review 2012-05-19T23:05:44Z

Deciding that his policewoman heroine has to have a sexual quirk, the discomfort is palpable: "Opening the top drawer, she fished out a red thong with black edging and a black bra with red trim." My Criminal World by Henry Sutton – review 2013-05-18T10:01:01Z

In the first chapter of her memoir, she claimed she borrowed her first name from Holly Golightly, the heroine of the Truman Capote novel “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” and the last name from Woodlawn Cemetery. Holly Woodlawn, Transgender Star of 1970s Underground Films, Dies at 69 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

Wolas offers several views of her complex, memorable heroine, and the interplay of Joan’s distinct selves — as a mother and as a writer. New in Paperback: ‘Priestdaddy,’ ‘The Golden Legend’ 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

The changes of pace and angle, the sudden stops and retractions, the unexpected gestures: all these showed in principle why a Graham heroine is remarkable. Dance Review: Bront?s and Medea, Bent Into New Forms 2011-03-17T22:53:06Z

So by modern standards Jane Austen's heroines are uncannily self-possessed and oddly detached from the need to be 'validated' or approved of by their suitors. Love hurts more than ever before (blame the internet and capitalism) 2012-02-12T00:06:44Z

Everyone else present, row upon row, bows to this unknown heroine, mysteriously acknowledging her crucial importance even without knowing who on earth she is. ‘Cinderella’ to Join American Ballet Theater Repertory 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

In the way of heroes and heroines marked for tragedy, Gloria and Constitucion are orphaned as adolescents and sent to live with an aunt. In Daniel Sada's ticklish 'One Out of Two,' twins raise questions about self and identity 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z

This makes the heroine’s transition from sassy sinner to sympathetic musical instructor less outlandishly funny than it was in the movie. | 'Sister Act': Different Church, More Sequins 2011-04-21T02:30:24Z

It’s an illness memoir without saints; its heroines a flawed mother and her flawed daughter. When a Stroke Felled Her Mother, This Author Ran Away to the Circus 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

Ellis claims it’s an homage to his literary heroine Joan Didion’s “The White Album,” an allusion that will be lost on almost everyone. Bret Easton Ellis, the political outrage machine who has never voted for president 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

That sound I hear is the disabused laughter of Sam Raymond, the heroine of Dana Spiotta’s furious and addictive new novel, “Wayward.” When the ‘Change of Life’ Means It’s Time to Change Your Life 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

So what does he make of Miley Cyrus - surely a girl just trying to shock and get away from her 'clean teen' past, like many of the heroines in his films? John Waters: 'I wanted to be the filthiest person alive' 2013-11-06T01:34:07Z

How fitting that this performer is playing one of the Bard’s most gracious heroines, someone who, were she able to time-travel, would doubtless enjoy Ms. Dee’s cabaret act very much. Theater Review: 'The Village Bike' Explores a Woman's Desire 2011-07-12T13:00:05Z

Within the space of the first episode, our candyfloss-headed heroine gets an after-school internship at a law firm in Manhattan and meets the editor of a prestigious fashion magazine. Six to watch: TV prequels 2013-05-07T15:51:00Z

When “Covert Affairs” began in 2010, the heroine, a C.I.A. rookie, is recruited for her first big assignment because she is needed to help the agency reel in a high-level defector. On ‘The Americans’ and Other Shows, Russian Spies Invade 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

The banter among the transgender heroines is funny; the lurid revenge-fantasy violence, not so much. Film: The Tribeca Film Festival?s Cinemania Series Has Dark Treasures 2010-04-22T22:56:00Z

And I am now officially a devoted fan of Sheridan Smith, who puts an indelible stamp on the ditsy-but-savvy heroine of “Legally Blonde” in its London incarnation. Theater Talkback: Answers to Your Questions About London 2010-08-04T16:29:00Z

Marisol is the central heroine, but it’s a villainess who steals the most scenes. Television Review: ‘Devious Maids,’ With Ana Ortiz, on Lifetime 2013-06-21T22:32:49Z

He went from giving me a part in three episodes on season one to throwing me into being the heroine in season two. Sarah Paulson on relationships, her Emmy win and female beauty standards 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

Immergut, who like her heroine toiled at a soul-killing day job for many years, writes with clarity and compassion about “ambitions that refused to be thwarted.” Review | ‘You Again’ is a captivating mystery about a woman who keeps colliding with her younger self 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z

His tone is colloquial and gently ironic, but he is unendingly affectionate toward his heroine. ‘The Pope’s Daughter’ review: Dario Fo’s novel defends the Borgia clan 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

One of television’s few complicated heroines, the writers also let her grow and, more importantly, contradict herself without apologizing or explaining her actions. How 'The Good Wife' Changed Feminism and Politics on TV 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

“Transcendence” plays with this idea, and it’s not for nothing that its heroine is named Evelyn. Movie Review: Johnny Depp Stars in ‘Transcendence’ 2014-04-17T21:59:53Z

French critics faulted the casting of a Russian-born Jew in the role of France’s heroine even though Honegger and Claudel wrote the work with Rubinstein in mind. ‘Joan of Arc at the Stake,’ Distilled to Her Essence at the New York Philharmonic 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Onstage in “The Nutcracker” Fritz, the brother of the child heroine, is never alone. Dance Review: City Ballet?s ?Nutcracker? Recast for the Movies - Review 2011-12-14T22:20:55Z

The formidable Barbara knew where her readers wanted the line drawn: No Cartland heroine ever came into contact with a hardened rod. A Roundup of the Season’s Romance Novels 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

What happens when a yearning Disney heroine grows up but never gets far — and was never a princess to begin with? Echoes of that "Ted Lasso" Midwest niceness in "Somebody Somewhere" 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z

Miller’s book promotes Circe to protagonist status, imagining a vivid, multifaceted heroine. Analysis | Women, once relegated to supporting roles, are becoming the protagonists of their own stories 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

What else did you expect from a record named after the heroine from Kill Bill? Here Are the Best Albums of 2015 So Far 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

"I was inspired by the spirit of a romantic revolutionary - a timeless heroine, independent and bold, a woman who revels in her individuality and personal style," Lauren told The Associated Press in an email. NY Fashion Week: tough, tailored, lots of black 2013-02-14T22:14:16Z

None, though, were upstaged by the unlikeliest action heroine of the summer: Melissa McCarthy. The best (and worst) US culture 2015: Film 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

There are even more surprises for our heroine — a murder, grand larceny and an appalling media circus — in this culturally astute tale in which nothing is exactly as it seems. The five best thrillers of 2014

She impressed the judges by performing the climactic moment from Gounod’s rarity “Sapho,” in which the heroine hits a high B flat right before she commits suicide by jumping into the ocean. George London Awards Given to Six Young Singers 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z

He calls the heroine Mirabelle, and he sings while he drills. Starring Judy Blume as Herself 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Heroes are Armentrout’s hallmark — they are noble and romantic and unflaggingly loyal to their heroines. Sarah MacLean picks the best romance novels to read this month 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

Emma Hamilton looks even younger than the 29-year-old whom Ibsen specified, and has the kind of refined beauty we associate with Jane Austen TV heroines. Hedda Gabler – review 2012-07-11T16:33:08Z

Set in an alternate Tudor England, Megan Campisi’s wonderful debut novel “Sin Eater” is a riveting depiction of hard-won female empowerment that weaves together meticulous research, unsolved murder — and an unforgettable young heroine. Review | For fans of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ a debut novel with a dark setting and an unforgettable heroine 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

Woolverton’s fight to shape Belle into a new kind of Disney heroine was just that—a fight, every step of the way. How the 'Beauty and the Beast' Screenwriter Made Belle the First Feminist Disney Princess 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

Her resourceful heroine, Sedona Snow, is a woman with an unhappy past who has just escaped from captivity in a dangerous labyrinth of underground catacombs on the island. New fiction by Seattle-area authors, ripe for fall reading 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

In “Bountiful” she’s an unsympathetic obstacle to heroine Cicely Tyson’s wishes; in her previous Music Center appearance, also at the Ahmanson, Williams played the Witch in Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods.” Music Center marks 50th anniversary with rededication ceremony 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

But “King” takes a very particular focus, building much of its eight-episode first season around the efforts of its heroine, Detective Sgt. Television Review: ‘King,’ on Reelz, Shows a Tougher Side of Toronto 2013-07-04T21:53:31Z

But you rarely see a Final Dude; that would be like ending a romance novel by having the bosomy heroine decide that she doesn't especially like the sideburned, swashbuckling count and would rather hoe onions. "I Spit on Your Grave": Bogus feminist torture porn lives! 2010-10-07T18:30:00Z

Among all the upsettingly optimistic heroines of the rom-com universe, Bridget Jones, the frequently single thirty-something imagined by the English writer Helen Fielding, has always come out as the best of the bunch. Bridget Jones Abandons Irony 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

“I doubt my life is so interesting anyone would want to read about it,” says the heroine of “Verité,” a new play by Nick Jones that opened on Wednesday at Lincoln Center’s Claire Tow Theater. Review: ‘Verité’ With Anna Camp, About a Memoir or a Tale Barely Like It 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

But I would never be mistaken for a native speaker, could never let loose a torrent of Spanish words like the heroine of an Almodóvar movie. Madrid for Kids? Try D.I.Y. Spanish Immersion 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

As Gulnare, the ballet’s second heroine, Nina Kaptsova is less visually remarkable but, especially in Act II, much more musically alert. Critic?s Notebook: Bolshoi Sends Alexei Ratmansky?s ?Corsaire? Into Cinemas 2012-03-12T22:19:26Z

Rey, the scrappy heroine in last year’s “The Force Awakens,” and Leia, the tough princess of the original trilogy, were also surrounded by men. How Female Fans Made ‘Star Wars’ Their Own 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

The musical resets the story to a parachute factory in South Carolina during World War II, but Carmen Jones, like the Bizet heroine, is both the object of men’s attention and women’s jealousy. Anika Noni Rose Was Waiting for This Moment 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

The musical mood immediately changes, and she sings a heartfelt aria worthy of any early Verdi heroine. 2010-02-03T04:38:00Z

In contrast, Cielle’s gradual awakening and maturation are made all the more visceral thanks to Kenny’s faith that her reader is as acutely perceptive as her beguiling young heroine. Two Novels, United by Troubled Daughters of Damaged Fathers 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

Lily Elsie was an unhappy British waif, most famous for playing the heroine in the operetta “The Merry Widow.” Antiques: New Auctioneers Take Over for Tepper; Long-Ago Spokesmodels 2012-01-19T22:49:43Z

“What’s also evident is Clark’s determination to renovate the time-honored but creaky Gothic formula and give its heroines something more to do than shiver and swoon.” Mary Higgins Clark, best-selling author of suspenseful tales, dies at 92 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

Rob Thomas imbues Veronica with timeless, ageless traits she displays from the start: Smart, brave, wise-cracking, formidable, she’s a resilient heroine who nevertheless displays vulnerability, a woman with a hard shell and a marshmallow center. "Veronica Mars" contends with the mystery and tragedy of growing up 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

She has enjoyed the heroine’s spotlight in plays like Shakespeare’s “Cymbeline” and “As You Like It.” This Labor Day, These Workers Are Trying to Stay Afloat 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

The stadium in Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad, boasts an impressive view of the awe-inspiring The Motherland Calls monument, a 27-metre statue of a defiant Soviet heroine. Russia 2018: A beginners' guide 2010-12-03T12:59:04Z

While writing Emma, Austen wrote that she was creating a heroine "whom no one but myself will much like." Perfection comes at a price in latest adaptation of Jane Austen's classic "Emma" 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z

Most of those responsible are lost to lexicographical history, but in our online age, it is easier to identify the culprit or heroine. From woke to gammon: buzzwords by the people who coined them 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

Our heroine, Ellen Hopper, is a scientist on a mid-ocean rig, trying to focus on her studies and ignore the tawdry, hopeless reality around her, including her failed marriage to a journalist named David Gamble. Review | There’s no shortage of novels about what happens when the Earth stops spinning. ‘The Last Day’ may set a new standard. 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

She fit the profile of this docile, earnest opera, which strove so mightily and so dully to fit some kind of perceived mold but sadly proved as insubstantial as its heroine. Review | ‘Marnie’ is all too insubstantial at Met Opera premiere 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z

Whether it’s via a gradual transformation, as in “Hadestown,” or an abrupt change, as in “Eurydice,” our heroine loses her sense of self. Love, Trust and Heartbreak on Two Stages 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

To varying degrees, and woefully oversimplified, most of the novels pit a plucky heroine or poor, priapic, paranoid schnook against some vast, bureaucratic, merciless conspiracy. David Kipen's Great American Novel: The works of Thomas Pynchon 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Willis, a "dedicated socialist", was determined to portray the emotional lives of working people and put struggling housewife Amy, a far-from-straightforward heroine played by Yvonne Mitchell, at the heart of the film. Sylvia Syms: 'I'd like a really evil part' 2012-07-19T19:00:04Z

Indeed, Ms. Ferrante’s writing — lucid and direct, but with a cyclonic undertow — is very much a mirror of both her heroines. Review: Elena Ferrante’s ‘The Story of the Lost Child,’ the Finale in a Quartet 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

She was a great heroine, one of the most interesting women I've ever written about. Why the monarchy needed Diana: "She had to be a front-rank aristocrat, and she had to be a virgin" 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z

Gerwig’s script drew from Louisa May Alcott’s private letters, scholarship on Alcott’s life, and Alcott’s later novels, in which Gerwig spied even more modern heroines than the ones in “Little Women.” How Greta Gerwig Built Her ‘Little Women’ 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

The heroine of my new novel, Mimi, is plump, middle-aged and menopausal. Valentine's Day: let's hear it for Hollywood's odd couples 2013-02-14T08:01:01Z

In “Winchester,” she’s a tough heroine out to protect her family and home from evil spirits and greedy company executives alike. This Horror Movie Is Based on a True Story. Sort Of. 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

Mr. Cumming shows up in Episode 2 as a kindly drag performer who takes in the young heroine after she’s escaped from a brutal women’s prison. Critic’s Notebook: TV Shows for Summer: Finales, Imports and New Series 2012-05-31T21:54:13Z

They’re more compelling, anyway, than the show’s main heroine: Helen, the bride of Menelaus and catalyst of the Trojan War. Art Review: Those Greek Heroes, Sometimes Behaving Badly 2010-10-21T20:45:00Z

Her cousin Heller is a party animal teen star cast as the heroine in a blockbuster movie based on a beloved Y.A. novel — not unlike Jennifer Lawrence in “The Hunger Games.” What is Paul Rudnick Doing Writing Young Adult Fiction? 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

Like its predecessor “Behind the Throne,” “Crown” is fast paced, and its focus on a female action heroine defined by her decisions rather than romance is refreshing and fun. Best science fiction and fantasy books this month 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

Maria doesn’t want to act with the young action heroine, but she does, and art happens. The Enemy of Youth 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

A wealthy, bumbling suitor arrives, and the heroine’s parents chase away their daughter’s charming love interest, obsequiously fawning over the wealthy prospect. Dance Review: No Mozart, but Plenty of Whimsy 2010-10-01T22:59:00Z

His interest in social and psychological issues is evident in works like “Giselle,” in which his heroine and her fellow forest spirits, the wilis, are inhabitants of an asylum. Mats Ek, the Swedish Choreographer, Says His Goodbye Isn’t Quite a Farewell 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

Plus it’s an exploration of the nature and purpose of storytelling itself; our heroine, Jane, is an aspiring writer, and different episodes toy with different genres or motifs. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Jane the Virgin’ and ‘30 for 30’ 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

These heroines have their own darn horses, and they invite their chosen heroes to come along for the ride. Love Notes 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Addy is a heroine any reader might aspire to be, a teenager who learns to trust her own voice and instincts, who realizes that fire can live within someone, too. Trail Blazer 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

Constance Kopp, the feisty heroine of Stewart’s charming novel, is a formidable character who can pack heat, deliver a zinger and catch a criminal without missing a beat. Notable fiction books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Her own life taught her lessons of resilience, strengthened by her Catholic faith, that she shared with her fictional heroines. Bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark dead at age 92 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

In “The Monomyth,” which runs through Saturday at the Chocolate Factory, Ms. Boulé is a feminist heroine for whom the notion of mythmaking takes place in the subtle transformations of her body. Moving to a Disco Beat, or the Clatter of Household Objects 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

Shorter had initially intrigued her with promising teases about the myth of Iphigenia — its young heroine, its blur of the comic and tragic, its poetic depths. Perspective | New opera by Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter remakes myth without sacrificing music 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

As Ramona Quimby approached her 10th birthday, the heroine of Beverly Cleary’s beloved chapter books announced she wanted two things: a small party in the park and a large bowl of whipped cream. Is your favorite author a Beverly Cleary fan, too? 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

Like the heroine of a silent-era serial or a 1970s slasher flick, she takes a licking and just keeps on ticking. Review: In ‘Brimstone,’ the B Is for Bleak, Brutal and Bloody 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

The heroine of “Betrayed” is Judy Carrier, a maverick with a passion for justice. In ‘Betrayed,’ Lisa Scottoline has created a modern Nancy Drew

Cast as Kathy, Mulligan is, variously, romantic heroine, sacrificial victim and quiet, stoic witness. A modern movie star is born 2011-01-22T00:04:10Z

While, in general, Scottoline’s heroines seem frozen in time, it’s the senior characters on the margins of this series — particularly Mary DiNunzio’s parents — who tell us something about growing older with grace. Essay: In mysteries, does the trail grow cold when the detective grows old? 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

One big difference: the woman who makes the heroine’s life miserable is not her stepmother but her own mom. Brave: The Princess and Her Unbearable Mom 2012-06-21T15:06:48Z

Ms. Goodwin is brazen enough to name her moneybags heroine Cora Cash and to borrow from the life of Consuelo Vanderbilt in telling Cora’s tale. Books of The Times: Money May Not Buy You Love, but It Might Help You Land a Spouse 2011-06-26T21:00:06Z

The heroine of Showtime’s “Penny Dreadful,” meanwhile, blindly clung to her faith in God as a barrier between her and the darkness that would result in an end to the world. Losing our religion: “The Exorcist” and “The Good Place” examine very different aspects of belief 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

If the heroine resists, the narrative suggests, she might find herself joining the parade of dead girls who came before her. All Hallmark Christmas movies are horror films in disguise 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

Think of her as one of the great novelist Jean Rhys’s lost, promiscuous heroines transplanted to the 21st century, but with a devouring sense of humor that goes far beyond irony. Review: Phoebe Waller-Bridge Gives New York a Fabulous ‘Fleabag’ 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

She plays the heroine of “Serenade” — a woman to whom things, and in particular men, happen — with a kind of innocent cool and absorption that reminds me of Kyra Nichols. 2010-02-14T22:34:00Z

I wanted to get married in jeans and a flowing white Indian blouse, like one of my heroines, Gloria Steinem. Oh, Dewey, Where Would You Put Me? 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

I think the main thing we learned was that we weren’t feeling for our heroine as much. Tina Fey, Renée Fleming and Andrew Garfield on Their Tony Nominations 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

What would be even more gratifying is the MCU treats her and other next generation heroines as well as their male counterparts, and better than the sister who fought and flew ahead of them. "Black Widow" is a triumph for Marvel fans, yet that's what makes it so infuriating 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z

There had been few heroines like her in fiction, but many more were to follow in her wake. Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z

Harding straddles that gulf, making a well-worn narrative shine with a heroine whose dogged triumphs accumulate over the course of this fast-paced and intensely lucid novel. From Blood and Phlegm to Alcohol and Defenestration, Novels of Heartache 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

The story features a Chinese heroine and an all-Asian cast and parts were filmed in China. Red carpet called off for London premiere of 'Mulan' 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

It also includes two of cinema's most memorable characters in the vulnerable but tough heroine Sarah and the Terminator itself, which manages to develop a personality through Schwarzenegger's stoical, charmingly direct robotic performance. Why the "Terminator" series matters 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

On Fox the same night, the heroine of “Ben and Kate” is also looking for love, only she stumbles over intrusive family members. The TV Watch: ‘The Mindy Project’ and ‘Ben and Kate,’ New Fox Series 2012-09-24T21:56:50Z

It’s a Homeric quest to reclaim control over the heroine’s own life and sanity. Life Advice From a Dead Grandmother Who’s Returned as a Bird 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

Its heroine, Flora 717, is born into the worker caste, destined for nothing but the basest drudgery. Review of ‘The Bees’: Paull’s transfixing first novel exposes dangers of the hive mind

I just loved the story – it is astonishing, the story of Troy, and all of the different conflicts, tangles and relationships, the heroes and heroines. Read 'em and keep: what are the books to pass on to the next generation? 2011-03-28T19:30:01Z

Pin is a first-rate heroine, aware of the vulnerability of her sex to the chaos and dangers of both the amusement park as well as Chicago’s slums. Cunning, Damaged and Deranged: The Latest Thrillers by Women 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

The enslaved heroine moved with paradoxical freedom among the cast, dressed in stiff robes and elaborate headgear. Peter J Hall obituary 2010-06-24T18:00:00Z

Like one of her heroines, Maria Callas, she seems acutely aware of her own greatness. Marina Abramovic 2010-10-02T23:04:00Z

Luckily, the Disney renaissance of the 1990s gave us many more diverse heroines to treasure. A Latina Disney Movie Princess? The Wait Isn’t Over 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

On its foldout spread, the lifestyle heroine sits at an antique vanity, three little girls admiring a fourth who powders the icon’s nose. Posh taste, poor timing: Does Victoria Beckham’s Target fashion democratize luxury or glorify gratuitous wealth? 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

A recent trailer, showing glimpses of everyone from spirited heroine Lyra to glamorous villain Mrs Coulter, all but broke the internet. What's the next Game of Thrones? All the contenders for fantasy TV's crown 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

James had reviewed it, lamenting that Eliot had created a brilliant but “wasted” heroine in Dorothea because Eliot had released her from a bad marriage. Letters to the Editor 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

That is the tension inside Loco7 Dance Puppet Theater Company’s celebratory “Lunch with Sonia,” whose matriarch heroine intends to end her life before debilitation takes that choice away. First Up in La MaMa’s Return: Strange, Enchanting Puppetry 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

Among other details, the heroine in the proof is referred to as Miss Lucas in places, rather than Esther Greenwood, and a character named Plato in the proof becomes Socrates in the book.  Rare Early Proof of 'The Bell Jar' to Be Auctioned 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

We took everything we hated about superhero comics – and flipped the script," he said, promising "no heroines running in stupid heels. Comic-book superheroine Cat aims to see off gender stereotypes 2013-02-18T15:18:05Z

In these shows, which center on working-class and middle-class urban women, divorce often constitutes a financial and social injury that a heroine or sidekick weathers with heart and pluck. Stand by Your Man? On TV, as in Life, There Are Alternatives 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

But she says Johanna was about creating a new kind of heroine. Caitlin Moran: Making feminism fun 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z

The show does eventually reach deep enough into its heroine’s heart to draw to a moving conclusion. Theater Review: In ‘Arlington,’ an Army Wife Fights a Lonely Battle 2014-03-03T03:00:01Z

Shakespeare’s Mighty Sorority Fashion is hardly the first thing on Tina Packer’s mind in “Women of Will,” her impassioned exploration of Shakespeare’s heroines, which opened Sunday night at the Gym at Judson. Theater Review: ‘Women of Will’ at the Gym at Judson Memorial Church 2013-02-03T23:10:30Z

The opener, "When Will My Life Begin," is the heroine's "I wanna" song, a Disney tradition that stretches back to Snow White's "Some Day My Prince Will Come." 'Tangled' Movie Review: Disney Excels with Rapunzel Remake 2010-12-01T16:55:00Z

The heroine of “The Hate U Give” is Starr, a 16-year-old black girl caught between two worlds. “The Hate U Give”: Angie Thomas’ sensational debut novel should be required reading for clueless white people 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

Felicity Jones is a fine addition to the “Star Wars” tradition of tough-minded, quick-thinking heroines. Review: ‘Rogue One’ Leaves ‘Star Wars’ Fans Wanting More and Less 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

“They take their destiny in their hands more than the other Austen heroines we know. We love that.” ‘Sanditon,’ Unfinished No More 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z

Unlike the more technically demanding heroines of “Swan Lake,” “The Sleeping Beauty” or “Don Quixote,” Juliet welcomes a vast range of interpreters. Dancing Juliet: The power, stillness and pain of one of ballet’s greatest heroines 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

And the heroine, Princess Aurora, and Prince Désiré fit right into this storybook compendium. Review: ‘The Sleeping Beauty,’ Reawakened by American Ballet Theater 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

Hiaasen’s heroine dreams about being summoned there and having to sign an N.D.A. not to reveal that she has seen the commander in chief without his hair. A Python Ate the President’s Neighbor? Only in Carl Hiaasen’s Florida 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z

The heroine is a woman who has felt unloved and alien her whole life and yet comes of age, confronts her demons and saves the world in the end. Jesmyn Ward: By the Book 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

“Breaking Boston” focuses on the heroines’ struggle to change their lives. The TV Watch: The Wahlberg Family Business Grows With ‘Breaking Boston’ 2014-03-12T21:09:49Z

Here’s a movie about female friendship and collegiality — which, of course, also entails rivalry, miscommunication and shifting allegiances — that feels no need to entangle any of its heroines in a heterosexual romance plot. So That’s Who You Call: The Politics of the New ‘Ghostbusters’ 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

In the margins of the dialogue she intersperses tidbits about herself, the biographical details and movements that make up a heroine’s journey. How Much Power Do Women Want? A Novel Circles the Question 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

"The Snow Forest," a historical fiction book centering on a female heroine seemed to align with Gilbert's past novels only Gilbert wasn't just the author of historical fiction. Eat, pray, brand yourself accurately 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z

Critiquing the heroine as she floats upward into fame is a new twist, but that’s not what the movie is about. Why we keep gazing at ‘A Star Is Born’: From Gaynor to Gaga 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Basing a title on a reluctant hero is a popular archetype for developers, but in "The 3rd Birthday" they trap you into controlling a heroine who seriously seems to want to escape the game. Game On: 'The Show' maintains streak 2011-04-14T18:17:05Z

As drifting and dreamy as its searching heroine, “My Friend Victoria” takes a graceful but unsatisfying stroll through the life and longings of a young black woman in contemporary Paris. Review: An Exploration of Race and Class in ‘My Friend Victoria’ 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Around both heroines, the ensemble and character dancing is of the highest standard. Giselle ? review 2011-01-16T00:05:54Z

Despite the devotion to his dad, Eccleston’s mother, Elsie – with who he had, if not a better, then a far less complex, relationship – emerges as the real rock of the family, the unsung heroine. Christopher Eccleston: ‘I really felt that I was going to die’ 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

And Julia Leigh’s debut feature, “Sleeping Beauty,” with a heroine who has no recall of what the night has brought, promises a shiver or two. Movies: Cannes Festival Rolls Out a Very Red Carpet 2011-05-10T12:00:06Z

Its formidable collection, now reorganized on freshly painted walls, includes Caravaggio’s “Judith and Holofernes,” in which the biblical heroine winces slightly as she draws her blade. 36 Hours in Rome 2010-10-07T18:10:00Z

Gemma Whelan plays the heroine’s stodgy killjoy of a sister Marian with an intentionally cartoonish stiffness, which only makes Jones’ performance more appealing. Smart Watch: "Ramy" blesses us with a thoughtful, funny comedy about goodness 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

Harley Quinn, meanwhile, in a tiny T-shirt and tinier shorts, her multicolored hair in ponytails, is a frat boy’s idea of what a feminist action heroine might look like. Review: ‘Suicide Squad’ Chases Nihilistic Swagger but Trips Over Its Own Feet 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

The show feverishly assesses the warping toll of a life in the spotlight, as its heroine overmedicates, breaks down, perks up, lashes out at everyone around her and, by the way, sings brilliantly. Spring Performance: On Broadway, a Penchant for Celebrity Biographies in Song 2012-02-23T22:15:24Z

This border features in The Testaments – one of the heroines is smuggled over it, to and from the patriarchal totalitarian state of Gilead – and Atwood talks to me about its history through slavery and prohibition. Margaret Atwood: ‘If you’re going to speak truth to power, make sure it’s the truth’ 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z

Every minute is about the young adolescent heroine, Mattie Ross, and what this adventure meant to her, and took from her. Great Oscar debate: Is Natalie Portman overrated? 2011-02-23T19:45:00Z

He dismissed my inkling that he had based Nedra, the alluring and selfish heroine of “Light Years,” on my aunt. Postscript: James Salter, 1925-2015 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z

“But we were neither selfish enough nor selfless enough to become heroines. And even though she and I are no longer speaking, it makes me happy to think and write of that we.” In This Novel of Female Friendship, Birds of a Feather Drift Apart 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

No Mozart, but Plenty of Whimsy Quiz for balletomanes: A pretty heroine is in love with an impoverished but handsome village lad. Dance Review: No Mozart, but Plenty of Whimsy 2010-10-01T22:59:00Z

Her plucky heroine remains frozen at age 9; her sister, Beezus, is 14 and just entering high school. Beverly Cleary on turning 100: Kids today ‘don’t have the freedom’ I had 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z

Unlike her forebear, Shahrzad has become the heroine of the tale she tells. A Scheherazade for Our Times 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

A kind of girly version of Adrian Mole, but with feisty, sparky, irreverent Georgia as heroine, these stories are a great read. Jeremy Strong's top 10 funniest fictional families 2013-07-11T11:07:13Z

This new breed of heroine is ambitious and sex positive, with impeccably modern politics. Catherine Was Great. But Was She a Girl Boss? 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z

It’s polished and spooky and has a hologram — a kind of proto-NFT? — for a heroine. Expanding the Scope of ‘Latin American Art’ 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

The heroine of Lucy Mauds Montgomery’s 1908 novel of that title, she was a spirited redheaded orphan who always looked forward to the next “bend in the road.” Spare Times for Children for July 19-25 2013-07-18T22:28:52Z

Brooks hasn't lost his gift for dreaming up heroes and heroines who worry amusingly, and for creating a rom-com marplot — the other guy — who is attractive and seductive, pursuing his own understandable if borderline-amoral logic. How Do You Know: Well, I Like It 2010-12-17T09:15:00Z

Peri is such a fascinating heroine because she remains intensely engaged in this debate but resolutely disinterested. Review | Elif Shafak’s new novel is so timely that it seems almost clairvoyant 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

And it was such an unusual element for your female protagonist, your heroine, to be a blackout drunk. Emily Blunt Rides the Unnerving Rails of Addiction in ‘The Girl on the Train’ 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

The main – indeed the only – stated piece of feminism is that Belle has a job, so escapes the passivity and helplessness that has defined heroines since Disney and beyond. Beauty and the Beast: feminist or fraud? 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

You are the eighth child of a sharecropper — not so different from your heroine. Alice Walker and Colm Toibin, and Their Trail of Words 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z

Saturday and Sunday make up “Science Meets Science Fiction Weekend,” which includes science and technology workshops and appearances by “Star Wars” characters and one very real heroine: the astronaut Nicole P. Stott. Spare Times for Children for Feb. 14-20 2014-02-14T00:09:30Z

Judging from a recently conducted straw poll, however, my repressed, mob-capped fondness for Charlotte's heroine leaves me firmly in the minority. How the Bront?s divide humanity 2010-09-23T08:30:00Z

So this London psychiatrist is not the most exciting heroine, and a bit of a cold fish to boot. New Fiction From Olen Steinhauer, J. G. Ballard and Others 2012-03-28T22:20:12Z

Director Taylor-Johnson relies on closeups of her star as the heroine, the wordless narrator and the go-between, assuring the audience that what goes on will have a measure of emotional intelligence. Review: 'Fifty Shades of Grey': Where's the Wicked Whiplash? 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Anne’s wild imagination—her dreams of being named Cordelia, or of being a Tennyson heroine—is presented as a “protective mechanism,” as Walley-Beckett put it, from her tough childhood. How Not to Adapt “Anne of Green Gables” 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

This time, her heroine faces something more terrifying: child care. The trouble with the bad mother memoir 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

That’s the question I found myself asking on a recent Sunday afternoon when Sarah Afful took the stage here as the clever, lovelorn heroine of “Twelfth Night.” A First-Time Visitor Inhales Stratford’s Theatrical Perfume 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

To some extent, “France” — the movie and its possibly allegorical heroine alike — is structured around the tension between the banality of television and the sacredness of cinema, and around the difficulty of telling them apart. ‘France’ Review: When the Journalist Becomes the Story 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

That's not to say Galloway carries the pains of the memoirs around: like her heroine, Muriel Spark, she enthuses that life just "gets better and better". A life in books: Janice Galloway 2011-08-05T21:55:05Z

At its center is his most fiery heroine, Tosca, the diva who attempts to live for art under tyranny in Rome during Napoleonic times. Puccini extreme: Dudamel's gloriously pessimistic 'Tosca' an indictment on the appeal of fascism 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

The lady fakes her own murder in order to put her cheating husband in the electric chair and still readers have referred to Amy as a “kind of feminist” and an “unlikely heroine.” “Gone Girl” didn’t botch the “cool girl” speech — it clarified it 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

Stella Lane, the heroine of Helen Hoang’s “The Kiss Quotient,” is keenly aware of her mother’s disappointment in her personal life. Sarah MacLean picks the best romance novels to read this month 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

It looked like something a Hitchcock heroine would have worn. Finders keepers: my favourite piece of clothing 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

The first time Nadia dies, the world seems none the lesser for it; even she describes herself as the ill-mannered combination of Andrew Dice Clay and the animated redheaded heroine from “Brave.” Review | There’s a twist in ‘Russian Doll’ that keeps it from becoming ‘Groundhog Day’ for hipsters 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z

His virile heroes and beautiful heroines graced comic strips for more than 50 years. Al Williamson obituary 2010-07-14T17:21:00Z

Pregnant heroines can be fascinating, funny, complex characters, though few have been as memorable as Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby, the mother of all pregnancy movies. From Rosemary's Baby to Bridget Jones: a quick scan of pregnancy on film 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

Certainly Poppy, the antically joyful heroine of “Happy-Go-Lucky,” was a radically free spirit, almost violent in her expressions of good feeling. | 'Another Year': Injustice, British and Otherwise 2010-12-28T18:18:34Z

Austen, for example, derives much of her signature comedy by foregrounding her heroines’ romances against the mundane frustrations and misunderstandings of ordinary social life. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Nevertheless, this recent flood of releases highlights anew the fact that women of color are rarely allowed to flex the supernatural heroine mantle. Enough already with the white warrior woman worship 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Of all the heroines I was invested in throughout my childhood, Jane Eyre was the one I most identified with, despite my having a happy and supportive family. What's on Stephenie Meyer's ideal bookshelf? The works that made the artists 2012-11-25T00:05:41Z

"OK, I played Aida on Broadway and I'm glad those two weren't at the audition," said Cox, watching the pair portraying the Nubian heroine exit the stage. Calif., Fla. teens win high school theater awards 2012-06-26T16:01:04Z

Phillips’s resourceful heroine gives new meaning to the term “tiger mom.” The Best Crime Novels of 2017 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

One of those things was Ms. Collins’s uncompromising vision of a heroine who is not friendly, funny, kooky or defined by a man. What It Takes to Save a Mockingjay 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

“Tales of Hoffmann” followed the success of Powell and Pressburger’s “The Red Shoes,” and again its dance heroine is Moira Shearer. ‘The Tales of Hoffmann,’ Newly Restored, Opens at Film Forum 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

It's a tsunami of jokes, a meltdown of piety and po-facedness; it has at its centre an unexpected heroine: a concerned scientist who is seen by her fellow academics as a climate-change sceptic. The Children's Hour; Plenty; The Heretic ? review 2011-02-13T00:06:05Z

Her first dream, however, was of growing up to become a detective like her favorite heroine, Nancy Drew. Books of The Times: ‘My Beloved World,’ a Memoir by Sonia Sotomayor 2013-01-21T23:11:43Z

Gillian Murphy, the production’s original heroine, remains its finest, the one who most easily rises to the role’s multiple levels. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Nutcracker’ Dancers in This Season’s Performances 2013-12-31T20:45:44Z

I keep seeing them, these new novels, edgy plays, books from blogs, where I'm not sure if the young heroine illustrated is quite as real as she appears to be. Has the Girls revolution come to an end? 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

Ultimately, however, this is Lena’s story, and Ms. Vapnyar arouses in the reader genuine good wishes for her heroine. Books of The Times: ‘The Scent of Pine,’ by Lara Vapnyar 2013-12-31T21:47:12Z

From her first entrance, Ms. Netrebko was every bit Puccini’s passionate, vulnerable and charismatic heroine, a renowned prima donna in 1800 Rome. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Hysteria — that once ubiquitous woman’s disease —is back in vogue, and a heroine who’s also a feminist critic of pop culture is our perfect guide. The world has a really bad hair day in ‘The Blondes’ 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

Every character is a real person with dreams, fears and failings; the only weak character is the heroine, Zarita. Prisoner of the Inquisition by Theresa Breslin - review 2011-08-19T14:00:00Z

So did Poesy relate to the heroine known for hearing voices from God and leading the French army to victory during the 100 years war? French actress Clemence Poesy poised for stardom 2011-05-14T00:17:45Z

Few authors write damaged heroes better than Elizabeth Hoyt, who has a penchant for wounded warriors and the strong, uncommon heroines who can heal them. Heroines save their heroes in the best new romance novels 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Forensically, with a dazzling eye for detail and no qualms about the smallness of those details, the heroine lists her husband's shortcomings. Mum lit: a chore thing 2011-04-06T19:00:00Z

Working in this vein, Dias turns Sycorax, described as a witch in the text, into an oppressed feminist heroine, whose silencing by the patriarchy leaves the world the poorer. GALA Theatre weaves a swift and taut ‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold’ 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

Audiences were expected to believe that serial heroines could jump out of rising hot air balloons, and screen cowboys could race their horses along cliff edges. The silent-era film stars who risked life and limb doing their own film stunts 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

The novel switches between the past and the present, alternating the heroine’s story with those of her ancestors. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

She proposes hiring a pianist to play in the middle of Sloane Square, since the novel’s heroine is a piano prodigy. The Evolution of E L James 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

“I am this unlikely heroine in every way,” said Ms. Shaye, all smiles as she sat for an interview dressed in a little black dress and strappy heels that belied her taste for macabre roles. Lin Shaye Faces Down Horrors in ‘Insidious: Chapter 3’ 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

She danced two performances of the ballet’s double heroine, Odette-Odile; I saw the one on Sunday afternoon. Bolshoi Ballet’s ‘Swan Lake,’ at Lincoln Center Festival 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

“There are a lot of reluctant heroines in teen literature, like, ‘I just wanted to be a normal girl, but I was chosen to save the world!’ ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ was always progressive. Now, Netflix’s version is empowering a new generation. 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

Something isn't right," when it's already obvious everything is about to go tits up, and our heroine breathlessly protesting, "You know my situation. TV review: Spies of Warsaw; The Food Inspectors 2013-01-09T22:30:00Z

“The hero or heroine of the piece is New York City itself,” Kander said in an interview. ‘New York, New York,’ a Film-Inspired Homage, Plans Broadway Bow 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

An empowered heroine encountering a challenge reflects the whole mythology of individualism. Today's movie princesses want more than a prince 2012-06-22T18:21:09Z

Gugino was perfectly cast in the title role of ABC’s “Karen Sisco” in 2003, and won plenty of acclaim for her interpretation of Elmore Leonard’s heroine, but the show barely lasted 10 episodes. Smart Watch: "Luther" and 5 more hot shows coming to TV in June 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z

Pictures of a 5-year-old girl from suburban Seattle, dressed up as her heroines — Angela Davis, Rosa Parks and other African-American women who fought for freedom — were shown at the International Center of Photography recently. At Some Museums, the Art Is Now on the Outside 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

Suffering for her craft was just one thing that made Patsy Cline a pure country heroine. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

The young heroes and heroines of Ms Southard’s narrative see things differently. When the cloud parted 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Tatar realized she’d been struggling with what it means to be a heroine ever since she was a girl in the Chicago suburbs reading Wonder Woman comics. What About the Heroine’s Journey? 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

Also returning is the heroine of “Duplicity,” Brooke Grant. Surprise! Newt Gingrich’s thriller ‘Treason’ features a bumbling female president 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

You know the fairy-tale drill, especially from the Disney versions: the heroines endure awful stuff in rites of passage that lead to a joyous resolution of, usually, marriage to a prince. REVIEW: 'Into the Woods': A Disney Musical for Adults of All Ages 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z

Better to have the whole movie be a skeptical, uncertain affair than to risk presenting a pre-feminist heroine who lacks confidence. ‘Persuasion’ Review: The Present Intrudes Into the Past 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

Because the heroine and hero are dancing center stage, it’s easy to miss this box sequence altogether. Dance This Week: Cinderella’s Force Field and a Passionate ‘Apollo’ Argument 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

She presents herself not as a heroine but as a work in progress who knows she’ll make more mistakes. SZA Revels in Mixed Emotions on ‘SOS’ 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z

The plots, with victims transforming into heroines, now scan as easily feminist. How Movies and TV Address Rape and Revenge 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

In Netflix's version, for some reason, our heroine Anne is a drunk who talks to the camera a lot. "Persuasion": It was the best of characters, it was the worst of characters 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z

Her heroines often fought the sexist mores of their times. Barbara Mertz, Egyptologist and Mystery Writer, Dies at 85 2013-08-14T03:34:38Z

Triumph of any kind is never in the cards for the heroine of “Machinal.” Women Set London’s Stages Ablaze 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

The screen heroines of 2020 wound up meeting their moment in unexpected and diabolically cathartic ways. Perspective | In 2020, women’s pandemic-era rage exploded on screen 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

Toward the end of our tragic heroine’s final act, her self-destructive habits even begin to grate on her best friend, Summer Roberts. The “bitch” we come to love: Summer’s “O.C.” evolution taught me to appreciate this kind of TV heroine 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

The heroine of the musical Burlesque walks into a Sunset Boulevard nightclub where scantily clad women are gyrating on stage and Alan Cumming is manning the cash register. Burlesque Review: Dances with Divas 2010-11-24T07:00:00Z

We meet her as she lies dying and is occupying herself by composing a history of the world in her head – with herself as the heroine. Booker club: Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively 2010-03-19T10:19:00Z

In “The Letdown,” his function is to help convey the degradation that motherhood has brought to the life of the heroine, Audrey, played by Alison Bell. This Man Doesn’t Star in Every Australian TV Show. It Just Seems That Way. 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

Many of her plays, including the Pulitzer Prize finalists “Becky Shaw” and “Rapture, Blister, Burn,” feature heroines trying to escape the social immobility that locks them into dreary lives. Review: Money-Hungry Women Scheme for a Better Life in ‘Can You Forgive Her?’ 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

A spirited, independent heroine meets a smoking-hot fireman in Center’s smart romance. The 10 books to read in 2019 based on what you loved in 2018 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z

Our heroine rises, blood on her blouse, filicide averted. A “final girl” who gets to get off: “The Witch” proves nothing’s scarier than an unapologetically liberated young woman 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

The heroine of Jackson’s thriller has a happy family life — and a dark secret that a newcomer to her book club is determined to unveil. New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From Ernest Hemingway to the Baby-Sitters Club 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

This made casting, too, unusual this year, particularly when it came to choosing Marie, the ballet’s young heroine. The Tiny Dancers Who Make ‘The Nutcracker’ Sparkle 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z

Jud is the bad guy in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” — the farmhand who makes Laurey, the heroine, feel threatened in her own home. Toxic Men Get All the Attention. But Not in These Plays. 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

The heroine’s sensual experience is also spiritual, and political. The Classic Novel That Saw Pleasure as a Path to Freedom 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

But a remarkable thing about the work, which returned to New York City Ballet on Wednesday night at the David H. Koch Theater, is the way its heroines — or jewels — are treated as heirlooms. Dance Review: City Ballet in ?Jewels,? at David H. Koch Theater - Review 2011-09-29T21:25:15Z

"It's a terrible thing," says the heroine, "to know what you're capable of and never get there"; but all the evidence suggests that Garland, at her best, was perfectly capable of achieving her goal. End of the Rainbow - review 2010-11-23T01:04:00Z

The heroes and heroines were unambiguously good, especially if they were lost or orphaned. Which delightfully evil Disney villain still haunts you? 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Johnson will also sign copies of her book, which includes many more unsung heroines. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Morris’s heroine too dances here as if different waves of contradictory emotion were hitting her. Signs of Choreographic Life: Alexei Ratmansky and Mark Morris 2012-01-27T19:35:36Z

Daphne, the novel’s heroine, also experiences these spells when she’s startled. A Debut Novel Upends the Myth of Apollo and Daphne 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

What’s more, these women are meant to be naïve to their own looks, like the heroine of “Brooklyn”: “open-faced pretty without knowing it.” ‘I Feel Pretty’ and the Rise of Beauty-Standard Denialism 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

“I created a heroine in Lalani, who isn’t particularly gifted in any way,” Kelly said. The best children’s books of 2019 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

In “The Answers,” her heroine doesn’t narrate her tale so much as expel it, like a blast of air forced out by a hard punch to the stomach. In her inventive novel 'The Answers,' Catherine Lacey experiments with the components of love 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

The animated “Lilly Gets a Pet,” whose creators include the Bum family, a group of Canadian siblings and cousins, has an endearing heroine who happens to be a huge, hairy, one-eyed orange monster. Kidsfilmfest Is Back, With a Villainous Teddy Bear and Surfer Dudes 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

"The Closer," which started its final season on TNT last night, represents a case as vexing as any that its heroine, Brenda Johnson, ever cracked. A last hurrah for Kyra Sedgwick's brilliant kook 2011-07-12T13:13:00Z

The story hinges on Maya, a spiky loner with next to no back story, no friend or family, who’s more of an ambivalent protagonist than a traditional heroine. Movie Review: Jessica Chastain in ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ 2012-12-17T23:06:45Z

Lóri, the heroine of the decidedly grown-up Brazilian drama, “The Book of Delights,” is an unconventional sort — an elementary schoolteacher who encourages her young students to think about existentialism. ‘The Book of Delights’ Review: A Heady Romance 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

Jo March was one of the inspirations for the heroine of my most recent novel, “Mrs. Everything.” ‘Jo Was Everything I Wanted to Be’: 5 Writers on ‘Little Women’ 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

This description, which Ms. Didion did not contest, could describe the archetypal heroine of her novels. Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

Tentatively, our heroine makes her way to the circus. Cirque du Soleil – Worlds Away 3D: a leap in the dark 2012-07-04T16:35:15Z

As the visionary poet Corinna, Marina Poplavskaya seemed to relish her temporary escape from an endless succession of tragic heroines, though her lyric highlights represent the most serious moments in the piece. Il Viaggio a Reims – review 2012-07-22T15:45:13Z

As one of those companions puts it, Tanya — and by extension, Coolidge — has become the heroine in her own Italian opera. Jennifer Coolidge wins best supporting actress for ‘The White Lotus.’ 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z

In the background, there's a personal assistant called Annabel who looks like one of Howard's beautiful heroines. Elizabeth Jane Howard: 'I'm 90. Writing is what gets me up in the morning' 2013-04-06T23:05:23Z

Our heroine Macarena knows how to get to the stash, so she makes her family hunt for the money to pay her bail. 'It's better than The Sopranos': the foreign TV you'll be bingeing on this summer 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

Not only do young heroines work hard and well, they may even be the boss. A Roundup of the Season’s Romance Novels 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

She grows into the heart and soul of a wonderful movie by the Coen brothers, who have also compiled a long list of wonderful female heroines. Oliver Stone picks 5 films about strong women 2012-07-03T18:48:09Z

So, before they attack, the “Sweet/Vicious” heroines extract clear confessions that no courtroom or campus panel could hope to obtain. How Movies and TV Address Rape and Revenge 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Where were these heroines when I was growing up? Anne Billson | Anime's female role models 2010-03-25T22:20:00Z

To be the victim of a manipulative madwoman, or to be abducted into a Gothic lair, is to suffer, but it’s also to be special, a hero or a heroine in your own way. What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

To her credit, the heroine of this story never claims to be flawless, nor even to be a heroine. Review | At 19, on a whim, she entered the world’s most grueling horse race — and won 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z

Her dreams of literary success have curdled into a job ghostwriting the Waverly Prep series of “young adult” romances, whose self-absorbed heroine, Kimberly Sutherland, might be Mavis in her long-ago glory days. Young Adult: Charlize Theron Finds Life After High School 2011-12-08T18:18:01Z

As an old-school ballet heroine, she is fated to die by the mandates of the art. Review | The ballerina who fights back: In ‘La Bayadere,’ she won’t be manhandled 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

The chief skill of the Hitchcock heroine is to lie, inflict and then suffer untold torments without ruffling her hem. What's wrong with Hitchcock's women 2010-10-21T20:30:00Z

They serve as relevant warnings to our current foodie culture, just as Austen’s heroines serve as guiding lights. Jane Austen believed beauty could come in every shape and size. What else can she teach us about wellness? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

The eponymous Ms Woodhouse might be Austen's least likeable heroine – a meddling snob who translates awkwardly to screen. Pride and Prejudice at 200: the best Jane Austen small-screen adaptations 2013-01-28T14:07:22Z

Besson creates a heroine whose rapidly expanding abilities make her the world’s most awesome weapon. REVIEW: I Love Lucy — and Luc, and Scarlett 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

A female Times reviewer in 1932, praising the novel’s “wholesome freshness,” noted that “countless hard-working, industrious, healthy young girls recognized themselves in the heroine.” How a Grandmother’s Diary Led to a Long-Lost Literary Gem 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Dispatches, Lighthearted but Exacting, From the Front Lines The war correspondent heroines of the 1946 play “Love Goes to Press” have smarts and bravado and glamour. Theater Review: ‘Love Goes to Press,’ at Mint Theater Company 2012-06-20T23:14:03Z

The heroine is an alluring scrap in specs, a trifle bland but sweet-voiced and exceptionally nimble. My Fair Lady; The Dance of Death; Midnight's Pumpkin – review 2012-12-23T00:09:26Z

For as long as novels have been written, heroines in books by women have studied their beloveds’ minds with a methodical, dispassionate eye. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

He fails; the hero and heroine live, of course, happily ever after. A Late — and Maybe Last — Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘Lost’ Stories 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

The new young teenage heroine of suburban America showed no fear. With Hair Bows and Chores, YouTube Youth Take On Mean Girls 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Rolling Stone has called her a “punk-rock heroine” and she proves that she still deserves that title with her blazing return, . Alanis Morissette, Corin Tucker and the Frustrating/ Promising State of Women in Rock 2012-08-28T13:45:49Z

She’s like our little heroine but doesn’t quite know it at the beginning. After ‘Game of Thrones,’ Nathalie Emmanuel Is Ready to Take the Lead 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

Under James Levine she sang the other heroine of that opera, Brünnhilde, whose marathon begins in Act II and carries through to the cycle’s apocalyptic finale in “Götterdämmerung.” Music: Katarina Dalayman in ?G?tterd?mmerung? at the Met 2012-01-22T02:23:06Z

There are so many types of young women heroines in everyday life, I think there's room for everyone, we all bring something different to the table ... A Minute With: Lily Collins on fantasy, fans and first kisses 2013-08-21T16:56:59Z

Nora Webster” is set in the nineteen-seventies, and its heroine is a recently widowed mother of four in Wexford, with two boys still at home, struggling through a period of grief. Books to Watch Out For: October 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

The heroine, Willa Knox, is a freelance journalist burdened with the care of her baby grandson and her right-wing father-in-law. Review | In Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Unsheltered,’ Trump is just the latest threat to Earth’s survival 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

In prose and poetry, the British-Indian social media star reflects on the proto-feminist role models offered by the heroines and villains of Greek mythology. New & Noteworthy, From Black Utopias to a ‘Little Women’ Tribute 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

But there are plenty of other options, including, yes, Woodley, who effortlessly puts across her cancer-stricken heroine's goofy gallows humor, raw-edged wit and despairing nihilism in the commercial hit "The Fault in Our Stars." 'Unbroken' could stir Oscar acting pot 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

The heroine, Aurora — played by five ballerinas in California — is entirely absorbing in her dances but builds no huge excitement. Review: Ratmansky’s ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Has Premiere in California 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

The main point of contact between the two books is the heroine, Cass Neary, “a burned-out, aging punk with a dead gaze, a faded tattoo and a raw red scar beside one eye.” Two Good Books: Elizabeth Hand's Available Dark and Edward St. Aubyn's At Last 2012-02-15T21:23:51Z

Chwe believes that Anne Elliot in Persuasion is a paragon of strategic thinking, but he does not notice how the novelist traps her heroine in self-deception. Jane Austen, Game Theorist by Michael Suk-Youg Chwe – review 2013-06-12T09:01:01Z

Then we had that hilarious parachute dive into the arena – not the Queen, but a stuntman named Gary Connery – before our royal heroine appeared in the stands in the very same dress. The best films of 2012 2012-12-05T19:00:14Z

So like Alcott, Jo of the film concedes that marriage was “an economic prospect for women” and agrees to marry off her heroine with an eye on her book’s profitability. Being Jo March: Little Women finally has an ending grown women deserve | Josephine Tovey 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

By the fourth and final “Twilight” novel, “Breaking Dawn,” the heroine Bella Swan’s ultimate reward is a kind of Tiger Mom nirvana. Television Review: A Teenager Learns He?s a Breed Apart 2011-06-03T22:30:21Z

Through it all, Anaya is a quiet revelation: she stalks her cell like a wild animal and gives Vera a cool detachment that you do not expect from an Almodóvar heroine. Elena Anaya: Almod?var's new leading lady 2011-08-13T23:04:04Z

Starting out, Dundy knew only that the novel would be set in Paris, and that her heroine would be called – so very American – Sally Jay Gorce. 'A complicated hoot' 2011-08-26T21:55:05Z

Who watched She Got Game and spent the entire 78 minutes waiting for the heroine to whip out the Ludo? Whip It? You mean it's not about an undernourished British dog? 2010-04-13T14:45:00Z

All her stories were honest and believable with flawed but honourable heroines any woman would want to call friend. 2010-02-04T17:22:00Z

She’s more like an Oscar Wilde character than a Jane Austen heroine. Whit Stillman Discusses Austen’s Sense and His Sensibility 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

After all, they shared that heroine’s suffering and devotion to dance. This LGBTQ ‘Giselle’ celebrates individuality, putting a spotlight on non-inclusiveness in classical ballet 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

Our heroine soon discovers Hamilton's creepy-gorgeous female faculty may harbor a dark secret. 'Innocence' is as predictable as it is dull 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

The party is elsewhere in the boardinghouse where our heroine, Esther, a shy, plain woman of 35, sits in her room sewing corsets and camisoles for socialites and streetwalkers. Review: In ‘Intimate Apparel,’ Letting the Seamstress Sing 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z

Hall, who was twenty-three at the time, exquisitely conveyed the sometimes tremulous combination of knowingness and naïveté that characterizes Rosalind, Shakespeare’s most winning comic heroine. Rebecca Hall’s Complicated Inheritance 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

When she was cast as the eponymous Palestinian heroine of Miral, she wondered why. Freida Pinto: ‘I wouldn’t work with Woody Allen again’ 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z

The pace is relentless, and there are few words from our heroine to hold the disparate moods together. Rihanna 2010-05-13T20:50:00Z

Villanelle, the anti heroine, is a ruthless, blood-lusty assassin, who revels in the act of murder. From Jack the Ripper to Ted Bundy, why are dead women’s bodies still being used as entertainment? 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

The man is carousing and laughing with the other ladies of the evening, all in much better shape that Collins’ tragic heroine. A dream of time gone by: How PBS's "Les Misérables" helps process the tragedy of the Notre Dame fire 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

You sure didn’t find this kind of behavior in the TV heroines of my youth. The Bad Nurse 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

The female heroines that young girls look up to in 2015 tend to be strong, determined, tough chicks. In the age of superheroes, 'Cinderella' conquers with kindness 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

“Anti” might be too weak of a prefix to describe this heroine: She’s more of an outright villain, a red-haired seductress in leagues — culinary, homicidal — traditionally dominated by men. Why Can’t Women Be Serial Killers, Too? 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

The other is the Rijksmuseum’s full-length portrait “Arrangement in Yellow and Gray,” known informally as “Effie Deans,” a reference to the heroine of Sir Walter Scott’s novel “The Heart of Midlothian.” Victory in a Battle Over a ‘Whistler’? 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Her heroines can be funny, brave and resilient for sure, but she is just as concerned with showing them as mean, mercurial, judgmental and passive. The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

Something similar is true of Mr. Rioult’s unsung heroines: On his watch, they are unconvincing. Review: Pascal Riout Turns Greek Tragedies Into Antiwar Statements 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

The mewling of an 11-month-old baby is sweet, seductive music to one of the two heroines in Mr. Goldfarb’s play, a torture from the depths of hell to the other. | 'Cradle and All' : A Clock Ticking to Incessant Wailing 2011-05-26T02:01:03Z

The producer Mura Masa, though, turns out to be an attentive accomplice: His kinetic, carbonated beat bolsters the energy of PinkPantheress’s vocal and makes her sound like the heroine of her very own video game. Coi Leray Borrows a Hip-Hop Classic, and 8 More New Songs 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

Like his heroine, Pullman is troubled by the world around him. Philip Pullman’s latest book is adventure for an anxious age 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

She knows how to eat in France, at last, and she knows how to love as the Darren Star-created heroine frets between multiple dashing love interests in the city of lights. What to watch on Netflix in December 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

Inexplicably yet inexorably, the nuptial embraces between heroine and hero become valedictory. How Balanchine Turns a Fairy Story Into Tragedy 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Although the dancer and actor Helene Stanley was the model for Cinderella's movements, Woods contributed more to the heroine's personality than just her voice. Ilene Woods obituary 2010-07-19T17:01:00Z

As the ill-fated heroine, Melody Moore combined her splendid vocal and theatrical gifts to deeply moving effect. Review: A searing ‘Katya Kabanova’ on the Seattle Opera stage 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

Unlike some Dardennes heroes and heroines, Sandra and her family — and most of the families she visits — live in at least modest comfort. The Dardennes Explore Their Theme in ‘Two Days, One Night’ 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

When the Chris Kraus heroine first showed up, we were not ready to engage with her, or only a few of us were. I Love Dick on television marks the rise of the female loser 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

There and in the intermission, Solondz turns his canine heroine into a national icon, but his vision isn’t sufficiently historical, political, sociological, or mythological for it to encompass American dreams. Todd Solondz’s Exquisite, Imperfect “Wiener-Dog” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

And we also go into next year wondering what our heroine will be: if she’ll be “cured,” and if she will thereby have lost what makes her so essential. Homeland Watch: Playing It Close to the Vest 2011-12-19T13:28:04Z

In 1996, "Scream" and its bull's-eyed heroine Sidney Prescott sold nearly 25 million tickets in the U.S. thanks to a fresh and clever take on the horror genre. Creators of MTV's 'Scream' aim to scare up new glory with fresh blood 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

She can resemble a character out of Muriel Spark’s fiction, a thwarted girl of slender means who becomes an unlikely heroine. Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads,’ a Mellow, ’70s-Era Heartbreaker That Starts a Trilogy 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

As they follow the travails of Jacob's criminal barrister heroine, Ophelia, they'll get a sense of how hard a task this was. Ophelia in Pieces ? a novel about ye olde criminal barristers 2011-08-01T08:57:38Z

Like the life of Margaret Fuller, who was one of my great heroines and had an unbelievably dramatic life with an unbelievable narrative arc. Perspective | Seeing ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ through a feminist lens 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

There’s now an all-black law firm in town; our heroines—spoiler alert!—end up working there, representing victims of police brutality in cases against Cook County. Fighting “The Good Fight” 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

It's also a Regency romance with a trans heroine, a main character who discovers she may have a second chance for love with a longtime friend. A bolder than "Bridgerton" reading list: Regency books with a twist Eloise would love 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

Besides bold, beautiful heroines, these dramas have something else in common, namely hidden, ugly government conspiracies. Katherine Heigl Stars in NBC’s ‘State of Affairs’ 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z

So who can blame her if, as she conducts Honegger’s oratorio “Jeanne d’Arc au Bûcher,” she identifies just a touch with the heroine? The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z

She is no heroine here, merely a victim. Comics: Vertigo Crime's 'Noche Roja' set on border of terror 2011-01-18T20:05:04Z

Ms. Voigt, a heralded interpreter of Wagner, Verdi and Strauss heroines, is appearing as the backwoods sharpshooter of the title in Irving Berlin’s “Annie Get Your Gun,” which opens Saturday. Opera Star Tries Doin? What Comes Natur?lly 2011-07-14T22:16:30Z

Did they notice a problem with the three princely options presented to Merida, the film's heroine? Motherlode Blog: Must We Worry About the Boys of 'Brave?' 2012-06-25T18:32:07Z

The introduction of a relative who connects with our heroine in a special way is tender and playful. A 'Sookie Stackhouse' junkie comes clean 2010-05-05T22:34:00Z

I’m talking about the scene in “Twelfth Night” where the young heroine, Viola, dressed in men’s clothes, sees her own exact image reflected in the body of another person. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: When Shakespeare's Comedies Draw Tears 2011-02-24T20:24:53Z

Characters switch inexplicably from Hindi to English and back again, sometimes in the same conversation, the screenplay never missing an opportunity to contrast the high-mindedness of its heroine with the crassness of her oppressors. ‘The Warrior Queen of Jhansi’ Review: Freedom Fighter 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

In “The Bell Jar,” the heroine modeled on Plath calls it “the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.” In New Volume of Sylvia Plath’s Letters, a Marriage Falters and Masks Fall Away 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

And there is also the voice, fashioned like the disconcerting conscience of a David Lynch heroine: "Having to breathe was an embarrassment in itself. This was the kind of girl I was." The strange, savage universe of Ottessa Moshfegh's 'Eileen' 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

How is it to play someone like Pat Nixon who — as opposed to a princess, or mermaid or other standard opera heroine — is in our cultural memory? Renée Fleming Adds a New Role to Her Repertoire: Pat Nixon 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

It’s also a tough message to translate to fiction, where angry heroines traditionally receive short shrift, especially when they refuse to accommodate societal expectations. Jen Lancaster’s ‘The Best of Enemies’ is a cheeky take on girl friends 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

Nowadays it’s the heroines, not just the sidekicks, who swim in an endless sea of chardonnay and pinot noir. The TV Watch: Where Alcoholism Drinks in the Laughs 2010-12-02T23:21:00Z

Several of the more interesting new and returning dramas this fall feature this sort of probationary heroine, on trial in an essentially personal way that male characters rarely are. When the Heroine Is Less Than Perfect 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

The two rank among Shakespeare’s most verbally dexterous heroines, and Ms. Dillon does both roles proud. Katherine Soper’s ‘Wish List’ Blazes on London Stage 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

Of course, there’s also relationship drama between Kermit and Miss Piggy—and some porcine competition for our heroine. Watch the Trailer for the New ABC Muppets Series 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

And based on her fearsomely convincing work as a gun-toting action heroine in this season's paintball episode, she can do pretty much anything. The Emmys' most glaring omissions 2011-07-15T13:50:00Z

In the original film this ballet teemed with lavish Technicolor surrealism, but here the palette stays monochromatic except for the doomed heroine and her shoes. Demons, on the feet and in the soul, in Matthew Bourne's 'The Red Shoes' 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

Written by Misan Sagay, “Belle” tracks its heroine’s dawning awareness of both her own social, political and legal position and that of the black slaves who, initially, exist for her only as abstractions. Movie Review: ‘Belle’ Centers On a Biracial Aristocrat in the 18th Century 2014-05-01T22:04:13Z

The heroine of “iZombie” doesn’t expect the brains she eats to give her daydreams of the hearts, flowers and unicorns variety. 'iZombie' recap: It's double trouble for Liv in 'The Exterminator' 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

She is both an entirely believable modern woman, defying conventional categories and expectations, and also, for that reason, an excitingly credible feminist heroine. The Telluride Film Festival Features ‘Mr. Turner’ 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

I loved Glory, our heroine, she was strong, brave, bold and sarcastic. Burn Mark by Laura Powell - review 2012-07-13T08:00:00Z

Forget that corpse in the opening chapter; think about the heroine who wakes up with amnesia and can’t trust anyone around her. Critic?s Notebook: Books to Bury Yourself In 2011-05-26T22:07:19Z

Not only is Gertie vivacious and adoring, she is the very image of his doomed heroine. ‘Winter’: a passionate reimagining of Thomas Hardy’s troubled love life 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

The low-budget “Adventures of Superman,” a hit during its original run, became a favorite in reruns and Ms. Neill became a heroine. Noel Neill, the Lois Lane to George Reeves’s ‘Superman,’ Dies at 95 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

The tragic heroine whose shocking death, at 36, sent Britain into mourning. ‘The Crown’: What to Read and Watch About Diana 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Characters are disemboweled, heroines vomit bugs — the film thrills with gore and grotesquerie. ‘Satanic Panic’ Review: A Pizza Party for the Prince of Darkness 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

I remember Louisa May Alcott’s heroines — the March sisters — more vividly than some real people I dimly recall from those years. Why ‘Little Women’ Still Matters, 150 Years On 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

I want to see more black heroes and heroines. Ava DuVernay’s Fiercely Feminine Vision for ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

Soprano: the highest female voice, they often sing heroine roles. Think opera is just for hoity-toity rich people? Not so! Here’s a beginner’s guide to this grand art form. 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

I came out of the 60s and I was a feminist; I didn’t think women would accept a heroine who was going to sit around and wait for the prince to come and save her. How we made Beauty and the Beast 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

In Nell Zink’s subversive comedy “Mislaid,” the white heroine and her daughter pass as black, moving undetected through a swamp of racism and white guilt. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

Elle as a heroine is A Lot, all rainbows and marshmallows and relentless optimism; in one pivotal scene she literally sheds glitter. Three New Cinderella-Inspired Romance Novels 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

This installment proves satisfying as it skillfully maps its heroine’s journey of self-discovery to the mysteries of space exploration. 'Shiv' connects the everyday and the metaphysical at Boston Court 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

When Nancy first arrives at the beach, she meets two Mexican surfers, who depart just as our heroine is first besieged by the shark. Yet another white lady in jeopardy: “The Shallows” and Hollywood’s empathy gap 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

Hill’s heroine discovers that the emotional abuse she’s suffered from Jakob has left her broken and flawed, but she still shows compassion and empathy for other characters. 'The Fireman' may be the best apocalyptic read of the year, if you can stand the heat 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

The heroine is Marie-Laure LeBlanc, whose loving father, a talented locksmith, goes to extraordinary lengths to help her compensate for the loss of her eyesight. Books of The Times: ‘All the Light We Cannot See,’ by Anthony Doerr 2014-04-28T21:39:45Z

Even as the genre has expanded to include male writers, male readers and male-male romances, the lion’s share of romance novels continue to tell this story of the heroine’s triumph. Sarah MacLean picks the best romance books to read this month 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

It was based on a simple concept: the adventure novel, with a heroine at the center of the story. Sarah MacLean picks the best romance books to read this month 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

Moffat loves to throw his heroes and heroines from the roofs of tall buildings, doesn't he? TV review: Doctor Who; The Thick Of It 2012-09-30T11:00:02Z

Will she be a heroine of the immigration story, or a victim of it? David Denby: “The Immigrant,” “Belle” Reviews 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

A film whose heroine was supposed to survive became one in which everybody loses. It’s ‘Chinatown,’ Jake. On Second Thought, Don’t Forget It. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

The demands of closure, even on HBO, probably mean that the show’s four young heroines will find some form of resolution amid the continual dysfunction and comic disasters of their lives. ‘Girls,’ on HBO: Getting It Together in Penultimate Season 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

The story takes readers back 10 years to when the prior heroine, Lyra Belacqua, was a foundling baby. Philip Pullman on what drew him back to the world of His Dark Materials 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

And don’t think “heroine” is too lofty a honorific for Fran. Margaret Drabble finds wit and humor where you’d least expect it 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z

But the best romances turn that dynamic on its head and provide a strong, vibrant heroine who saves her hero. Heroines save their heroes in the best new romance novels 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

But such heroines are far harder to find, at least identified as such, in the literature of 2015. Where Have All the Tomboys Gone? 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

When the principal calls her Melanie, Wang’s heroine adopts three of her Mandarin name’s homophones: Mist, who can be invisible; Basket, carrier of her parents’ dreams; and Blue, her truest self. The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2021 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

"Kampe lived the role, whether she sang or recited, she was a true heroine," he said. Barenboim's 'Fidelio' wows La Scala opera buffs at season opener 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

Later, on his private jet, the inventor plants a kiss on our heroine and she doesn't resist. Tyler Perry's Temptation – an affair not to remember 2013-01-23T15:38:27Z

If you’ve read anything about Dickens, you’ve heard the critical commonplaces: his great sympathy for children, his angelic heroines, the way his serial composition lends itself so beautifully to television. Dickens Turns 200 This Year. We Will Blog His Ten Best Books 2012-01-20T14:00:32Z

And she certainly promises to apply the same, snappy New York sensibility to the part of Shakespeare's greatest erotic heroine. Kim Cattrall: A New York doll returns to the UK 2010-05-08T23:08:00Z

Outside of comic opera, it is rare for a heroine to survive the final act; the price for love is usually death. Mariusz Trelinski Brings ‘Iolanta’ and ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’ to the Met 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

The heroines of “Giselle” and “Swan Lake” are complex tragic heroines, with conflicted inner lives; the heroine of “Coppélia” outwits the ballet’s two leading men. Of Women, Men and Ballet in the 21st Century 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Behn has to get by on her wits, and Twyford’s blend of quick thinking and vulnerability makes this character an unpredictable, magnetic heroine. Review | Having it all as the first female playwright in ‘Or,’ 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

There are the de rigueur moments: a wedding sequence and shots of our depressed heroine indulging in gross excesses of food and alcohol, along with sartorial sloth. Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg Play Young Marrieds in Celeste and Jesse Forever 2012-08-02T12:00:42Z

Like her heroine, Cho experienced pervasive sexism throughout her life, she said. The Heroine of This Korean Best Seller Is Extremely Ordinary. That’s the Point. 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

It's the beginning of one of Donizetti's greatest creations - a 20-minute, three-part aria that captures the shifting moods of his doomed heroine. Cheers for Gruberova as "Anna" at age 64 2011-02-20T13:01:09Z

At the end of the second film, Bridget accepted Mark’s marriage proposal, and now a new surprise is in store for our heroine — a pregnancy. 'Bridget Jones's Baby' Gets a Release Date 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

Might the fact that this hero — the leader of one of France’s most successful anti-Nazi resistance organizations — was not a hero, but a heroine, have something to do with her absence from history? Remembering a Woman Who Was a Leader of the French Resistance 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

It’s actually a film of great sensitivity and yearning; and it’s beautiful to look at too, with images of suns and moons designed to echo the heroine’s round tummy. 9 Great Godard Films to Stream Now 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

It’s a provocative moment; as Jenny Han herself wrote in a recent New York Times essay, she had to fight, when pitching her novel as a movie, to keep her heroine Asian-American. The Y.A. Surge at Netflix Is On, With Two Good Comedies 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

Minnie, the plucky heroine, runs a saloon in a mountain town during the gold rush where she teaches the adoring miners how to read and write. Review: A Good-Enough ‘La Fanciulla del West’ at New York City Opera 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

From the very first pages, when the barque Morning Light sets sail from Nova Scotia in 1911, Endicott’s heroine knows she’s in a new world. A Novel That Unfolds in a Day, and Other Historical Fiction 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

To some degree, “Nomadland” wishes to be settled — wants not necessarily to domesticate its heroine, but at least to bend her journey into a more-or-less predictable arc. ‘Nomadland’ Review: The Unsettled Americans 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

Lively is terrific here, playing a young woman who becomes a heroine by degrees. You Won't Actually Be Done With 2016 Until You Watch The Shallows 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

We rarely see truly unsympathetic women as television heroines. Girls season two premiere review: 'These people are not meant to be loved' 2013-01-14T16:19:00Z

Undeterred by her lack of youth, talent or sanity, our supremely annoying heroine jets from England to France to New York City, stealing a cab and stumbling over a headless corpse en route. | 'Tied to a Chair': Thespian Dreams 2011-05-26T22:56:20Z

Both movies examine the isolation and paranoia of a woman at the mercy of political forces and family interests beyond her control, and turn on the heroine’s attempt at resistance. ‘Spencer’ Review: Prisoner of the House of Windsor 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

The years that Ms. Netrebko spent singing bel canto heroines paid off here in the skillful way she dispatched the trills and runs that Verdi folds into the vocal lines. In the Met’s ‘Macbeth,’ Anna Netrebko as the Scheming Wife 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Young heroes and heroines are terminal from page one, or a friend is, or a parent. Teen fiction and the shadow of cancer 2013-01-26T10:00:01Z

It’s a striking vision of a Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, though Agnieszka Smoczynska’s film is less about its heroine’s unraveling than about the pained process of her respooling. ‘Fugue’ Review: Lost Time 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

“I just felt like she had this frank stolidness,” Gerwig explains to W Magazine of the heroine’s appeal. A tale of two It Girls: Chloë Sevigny, Greta Gerwig and the generational likability divide 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Running like a girl, explains one tiny heroine in a red dress, means “run as fast as you can.” Do Advertising's Viral Video Pitches to Women Have Staying Power? 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

It’s difficult to construct a compelling narrative around a heroine whose motto appears to be “Whatever.” Down but Not Out: Fiction Filled With Second Chances 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

Unlike many romantic comedies, “While You Were Sleeping” doesn’t give its heroine a dramatic makeover and eschewed trendy outfits for more practical winter looks. ‘While You Were Sleeping’ turns 25: An oral history of the Sandra Bullock rom-com favorite 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

I think Alexandra would prefer to see herself as a heroine of her story. Why Sigourney Weaver Didn't Want Her 'Defenders' Villain to Be a "Cold Ice Queen" 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

The heroine of David Lindsay-Abaire’s “Good People” faces the possibility of imminent homelessness when she loses her job as a cashier at a dollar store. Down-and-Outs Are Center Stage Once Again 2011-05-12T14:32:27Z

One is the stately, raven-haired New Yorker Catherine Malfitano, who made Puccini's heroine "real" to millions of viewers in the 1992 live telecast from Rome with Placido Domingo, which was shown worldwide. Prima Donnas 2010-05-13T21:45:00Z

This spring brought a cheeky new feature adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Emma” that had the heroine get a nosebleed just as Mr. Knightley declared his love. This Is Not History’s Catherine the Great 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

To see a heroine who also struggles with this, who also is uncertain, unsure, unable to connect, was refreshing. Why I'd like to be … Scarlett Johansson in Lost in Translation 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

“The Good Wife” was so intimately invested in its heroine that audiences routinely watched her simply drink in silence. CBS Bets on ‘The Good Fight’ in the Streaming Wars 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

This is like watching a horror movie when the hapless heroine decides to check the basement because she hears a loud noise. 2010-02-12T15:13:00Z

My character in Edge of Tomorrow was very much that kind of exaggerated action-movie heroine. Emily Blunt on taking a hit, training with the FBI and her Taylor Swift moment 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

City viewers are still waiting for the heroine to realize that happiness can exist in a studio apartment in Queens and not just in an Upstate village named Cookie Jar. We can’t take any more of 2017, so we’ve turned to the Hallmark Channel in desperation 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

Cut to the heroine blocking an onslaught of bullets with her shield. At This Year's Comic-Con, Superheroes Looked More Like Us 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

It sees 24 children sent to fight to the death in an annual televised event in future nation of Panem, in which Katniss Everdeen becomes an unlikely heroine for the oppressed. Hunger Games village up for sale 2012-05-22T06:50:27Z

There, our heroine is approached by one of her fellow plaintiffs, a crazed Miss Havisham type, who warns that whatever she does, she must not close her eyes. Cannes 2017 – the best of week two 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z

"In some ways I'm not very well suited, I think, for that position of heroine," she says. Anita Hill in spotlight again as new film opens 2014-03-21T20:38:06Z

This isn’t the kind of product placement in which a company’s car or navigation system is used by the heroine — this is the kind in which a sponsor is turned into a heroic character. Watch List: ‘Cybergeddon,’ With Missy Peregrym, Hits YouTube 2012-09-24T18:09:03Z

Patients on Showtime’s “Nurse Jackie” do flat line, but their deaths mainly serve to explain the heroine’s drug addiction. Television Review: Laura Linney in Showtime?s Cancer Comedy 2010-08-15T22:05:00Z

Skink takes a predictable shine to Ann, who predictably becomes the book’s true heroine. Books of The Times: How to Handle a Pop Star in Carl Hiaasen?s ?Star Island? 2010-07-20T22:00:00Z

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 2011-02-11T00:20:01Z

This season, both of those shows put their heroines through shocking, life-changing ordeals, for different reasons and with differing degrees of success. Comparing the Arcs of ‘The Good Wife’ and ‘Law & Order: SVU’ 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

Woodhull’s arias are passionate, emotional, often agitated, occasionally seductive: everything you would expect from an opera heroine, and all conveyed powerfully in the soprano Valerie Bernhardt’s focused, spirited performance. Music Review: ‘Mrs. President’ Opera Has Preview at Symphony Space 2012-07-10T22:20:10Z

“The heroine is going to lead her man to the right path, marry him, have children, and rid him of his sexual ‘abnormality,’ ” he told Le Point magazine. Books of Styles: A Defiant ‘Oui’ for ‘Fifty Shades’ 2013-01-16T23:10:38Z

In the new Emma, Mr Knightley seems to be driven almost literally mad with desire, wandering through the night after a ball where he dances with the titular heroine. Sense and social distancing: 'Lockdown has given me a newfound affinity with Jane Austen's heroines' | Josephine Tovey 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

The basic situation is reminiscent of Mr. Petzold’s previous films but the outcome is more hopeful: a heroine adrift, out of time and place, is jolted into the here and now. Film: At Berlinale, Something for Everyone 2012-02-17T17:13:20Z

She has never been the kind of woman who favored a sepulchral black wardrobe and moody makeup, as her latest show’s heroine does. The Creator of ‘Jessica Jones’ Serves Up a Dark Mirror for Our Moment 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

Liu is appealing as the initially reserved heroine, and the show serves as a picturesque, convincing argument for the virtues of heritage tourism in Yunnan Province. An International Buffet, From Elena Ferrante to ‘Slow Horses’ 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

Yet, Jane — Tomalin calls her “the true heroine of this story” — remained the sheet anchor of his life, as well as his typist. Review | H.G. Wells wanted to change the world. A new book explores the author’s outsize ambitions 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

Patina Miller, last on Broadway as the heroine of "Sister Act," steps into the Vereen role of Leading Player. Review: New 'Pippin' mixed with circus amazes 2013-04-26T02:00:15Z

Lawhon’s heroine is a fragile old woman when we first meet her in Virginia in 1970, 50 years after a suicide attempt on a bridge in Berlin thrust her into notoriety. Fictional Glimpses of the Past: From the Tudors to the Czars 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Among other Gothic delights, there’s a crumbling old mansion, a disputed inheritance, an orphaned heroine and a grim housekeeper whose signature supper dish is gristle stew. Review | Why Ruth Ware’s new thriller is a classic 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson joins a succession of recent teen heroines who have ditched the gender divide and taken the initiative. Different for girls: why virginity is still a burden for teenage girls 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

Of course, the identical twin heroines don’t want to play along. ArtsBeat: Teenage Girls in a Dystopian World 2011-05-09T13:00:36Z

That works well for Lana Washington, the “Trigger Point” heroine, whose characteristic scene involves running full speed into a place from which everyone else is being evacuated. ‘Trigger Point’ Review: Pure Pressure à la ‘Line of Duty’ 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

To rescue her father, Meg Murry, the physics-loving heroine — played by Storm Reid, now 14 — skips across galaxies with her little brother and a friend, encountering fantastical creatures and menacing beasts. Ava DuVernay’s Fiercely Feminine Vision for ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

Her unflappability in the face of the bizzarities of her relatives and the unwanted attentions of irksome Mr Myerburg puts her in the running for one of my favourite heroines of all time. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons - review 2012-02-13T09:00:00Z

The heroines in “The Good Fight,” at least so far, are simpler. Fighting “The Good Fight” 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

The series, like its heroine, mixes playfulness and resourcefulness: for example, there’s an episode where Phryne traps a poisonous spider – under her diaphragm. How Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries conquered America 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

“Mrs. America” hardly sees Schlafly as its heroine, but it respects her cunning and force of will. ‘Mrs. America’ Review: The Voice of an E.R.A. 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

This is lurid stuff, yet Mr. Pearce miraculously holds things together until the end — even when his heroine fails to do the same. Review: A Troubled Beauty and a Mysterious ‘Beast’ 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

Where, then, does this leave our English teacher heroine who is determined to do something about their newfound village dwelling’s audibly rattling pipes? Theater Review: 'The Village Bike' Explores a Woman's Desire 2011-07-12T13:00:05Z

There are glimpses of Bridget in the writer’s quick wit and sense of the absurd — though Fielding exudes a considerably greater sense of control than her hapless heroine. Bridget Jones is Back in ‘Mad About the Boy’ 2013-10-14T14:44:34Z

"City of Ash" is told by its two heroines in alternating first-person chapters. 'City of Ash': Megan Chance's novel of two 'frenemies' in the days before Seattle's Great Fire 2011-06-03T21:58:03Z

Was she a feminist heroine or a reactionary monster? Riff: Riff: The Iron Lady as Anti-Muse 2011-09-25T04:33:02Z

“If you end your delightful book with your heroine a spinster, no one will buy it,” the publisher says. Being Jo March: Little Women finally has an ending grown women deserve | Josephine Tovey 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

But just when that story’s familiar grisly revelation seems imminent, Fréchette switches gears, plunging her heroine into the realm of unrooted symbolism. Review | Spooky Action Theatre’s ‘Small Room’ for patient fans of the offbeat 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

Ms. Hamilton, after all, is now 60 years old — and who else is putting 60-year-old action heroines in their blockbusters? She’ll Be Back ... but What Will Linda Hamilton’s New ‘Terminator’ Be Like? 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

The second reason is that Linda Hamilton will be back as Sarah Connor, the heroine of the first two films — never mind that she was killed off before the events of “Terminator 3.” She’ll Be Back ... but What Will Linda Hamilton’s New ‘Terminator’ Be Like? 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

Ms. Clemens, in a part that recalls the embattled and idealistic heroines of David Hare, lends Hilary an appealing humility spiked with just enough ego to keep her this side of unmodulated piety. Review: Tom Stoppard’s ‘The Hard Problem’ Is a Mind-Body Gabfest 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

On screen, Jennifer Lawrence plays an unnamed heroine whose domestic idyll is overrun by an endless procession of malignant houseguests. Darren Aronofsky on Mother! - ‘Jennifer Lawrence was hyperventilating because of the emotion’ 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Harriet, the heroine, is a 13-year-old child with "an evil mind", in the words of one of her victims, who draws her friend into duplicity and murder. Dame Beryl Bainbridge obituary 2010-07-02T12:46:00Z

The fluorescent fingernails of the heroine of "The Hour of the Fireflies" by Karen Chacek reveal her laboratory origin. 'Three Messages': Mexican stories of the fantastic 2012-02-01T19:23:08Z

Neurotic women Generally speaking, Holofcener's heroines are flawed females tormented by the disparity between who they are and who they want to be. Seen it before? 2010-06-14T14:31:00Z

Moana is an inspiring heroine, a smart, brave and decent young woman whose individual aspirations align perfectly with a larger, world-saving mission. Review: ‘Moana,’ Brave Princess on a Voyage With a Chicken 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

The series is part of a recent wave of superhero shows centered on young heroines of color. A New Marvel Hero Battles Supervillains and Teen Angst 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

In its early years, “Chaconne” was a vehicle for Ms. Farrell and no other ballerina; in recent years, its heroine has usually been danced without inspiring luster. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet Wraps Up a Memorable Winter Season 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

It would be entirely unsurprising if, in the middle of any scene, the villain tied the heroine to a set of railroad tracks and twirled his mustache as a speeding train approached. | 'From Rags to Riches': ?From Rags to Riches? at the Metropolitan Playhouse - Review 2011-09-26T21:31:46Z

The twinned heroines — one blonde and laureled like a nymph, the other a taller brunette — act like dolls run amok, but they’re also impish adolescents tweaking society through their experiments in self-definition. ‘Daisies,’ From the Czech Director Vera Chytilova, at BAM 2012-06-29T22:03:01Z

Far from diminishing its heroine’s ardent efforts, it magnifies them. The Stunning Achievement of Kasi Lemmons’s “Harriet” 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

She most of all is a really warmhearted, really funny, really clever, really compelling heroine who was doubly betrayed. Why the monarchy needed Diana: "She had to be a front-rank aristocrat, and she had to be a virgin" 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z

Sure enough, Fanning will start filming an adaptation of The Bell Jar next year, in which she will play one of the most complicated and least “likable” fictional heroines of all time, Esther Greenwood. Dakota Fanning: ‘There was an expectation – to fail, to succeed’ 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z

Back at the parking lot, we received a heroine’s welcome. Spice and everything nice on Grenada

Most of Ms. Havoc’s film work was in supporting roles, often as the heroine’s wisecracking pal or a major male character’s wife. June Havoc, Vaudeville Star, Dies 2010-03-29T15:33:00Z

Perhaps this is because steampunk, despite its obsession with kit, boasts a great many feisty heroines who are handy with a wrench or a Temporal Displacement Occulator. What's steampunk? 2012-08-28T13:55:51Z

Travers, an Australian immigrant to London, placed her heroine further down the social scale, as she herself, in that era, would have been judged to be. Mary Poppins: not sugary, but sharp and subversive – on the page and the screen 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

Talking with Margulies, it occurred to me that the show’s greatest challenge may lie in the portrayal of realistic and believable happiness for its heroine. The Question at the Heart of “The Good Wife” 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

Even as Chaya becomes a fascinating Henry James heroine, tormented by her wishes and her losses, Asher remains a sad, talky but unknowable elf. A Poor Girl’s Progress Through the Gilded Age 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Ms. Danes comes a lot closer to fulfilling the famously wrong prediction Jane Austen made about “Emma,” saying, “I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like.” Television Review: ?Homeland,? Starring Claire Danes, on Showtime ? Review 2011-09-29T16:32:19Z

About half of the 1hr. 14min. movie is devoted to the shenanigans of the heroine’s closest companions, a quartet of talking mice, and their slapstick battles with Lady Tremaine’s obnoxious cat Lucifer. Cinderella Review: Disney Rekindles Old Magic 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

It was a break in character for the tragic heroine of Donizetti's "Anna Bolena," but a forgivable one. 2 Annas: Netrebko as 'Bolena' conquers Met 2011-09-27T05:08:08Z

It was in this unsettled period when Wilde, then around 20, spotted Tilda Swinton at a Golden Globes party, sidled up to her ethereal, chameleonic heroine and awkwardly asked for advice. Olivia Wilde, Director: ‘Too Old to Play Dumb Anymore’ 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

Her heroine experiences life in the weirdly bifurcated way that writers often do: feeling the pain while also harvesting it for comedy. Review | Lily King’s ‘Writers & Lovers’ delivers pure joy 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

Even during a rote command performance, Morton can be droll and dry, noting that our heroine’s upbringing was “less Disney, more brothers Grimm” and that her gilded paternal bloodline included a dentist. Yet Another Serving From the Royals Banquet 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

It would be a mistake, however, to associate her only with tragic bel canto heroines or with that delicious blend of tomboy and nightingale, Marie, in La Fille du Régiment. Dame Joan Sutherland obituary 2010-10-11T17:56:00Z

Lise, the heroine, and her beloved, Colas, have no fewer than five love scenes, each showing differently their mutual devotion; the final one is part of their wedding. Love Two Ways: Ashton and Balanchine on Romance 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

The heroine is invariably left to sort the mess out on her own. Greta Gerwig: ‘I don't need a man. I would have done all this anyway' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

This adapts Balzac’s 1843 novel, “Lost Illusions,” so that its hero and rival heroines are a composer and two ballerinas; the action occurs solely in Paris, in the 1830s. Dance Review: Alexei Ratmansky’s ‘Lost Illusions’ Is Shown as a Broadcast 2014-03-04T22:34:42Z

That’s worth looking at, as are the ways she differs from other heroines, including one of the greatest, Ripley in the “Alien” series. Arts & Leisure: Katniss Everdeen, a New Type of Woman Warrior 2012-04-04T12:00:00Z

And she has a strong heroine, even though Caren is oddly passive even when she aggressively tries to uncover Belle Vie’s secrets. Books of The Times: ‘The Cutting Season’ by Attica Locke 2012-09-05T21:12:22Z

The actor has made a name for herself playing the heroine in horror. Maika Monroe: The thinking woman’s scream queen 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

Unlike a lot of screen heroines, she has never settled into stereotype, which, despite the whole dystopian thing, makes her a lot like the contemporary girls and women watching her. Review: ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2,’ Katniss’s Final Battle 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Her heroine, Maggie Morrison, nourishes a brood of children, an ailing mother-in-law and a jobless husband. Men Should Weep - review 2010-10-26T23:25:00Z

“We all enjoy heroines who don’t always behave themselves.” Claire Tomalin’s Favorite Fictional Heroine? It ‘Must Be Natasha’ in ‘War and Peace’ 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

Pamela Paul, writing in the Book Review this weekend, hailed Meg as a “heroine of science fiction.” Motherlode Blog: 'A Wrinkle in Time' Turns 50 2012-02-01T00:05:36Z

As in The Birds, the director and the fauna seem to conspire together against the blond, beautiful heroine. Why The Shallows is better than The Birds 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

Powell and Pressburger, Beecham and Ashton rearrange the story so that Stella, who inspires Hoffmann to envisage her as a succession of elusive or doomed heroines, is here a ballerina rather than an actress. ‘The Tales of Hoffmann,’ Newly Restored, Opens at Film Forum 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

After all, she is a heroine leading a revolt. Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo Take On ‘Laurencia’ 2012-12-24T22:49:32Z

But the heroines of this film have almost nothing except pretty underwear and bruised flesh. Why is there so much movie violence against women? 2010-06-03T21:45:00Z

Vane is, in effect, a heroine in "Gaudy Night," which has been successfully dramatized for British television and radio. Taproot woos fans of Dorothy L. Sayers in upcoming 'Gaudy Night' 2012-09-12T23:05:04Z

Her voice had the sophisticated snap of a screwball heroine. ArtsBeat: Phyllis Diller and Her Comic Craft 2012-08-22T16:23:43Z

If Women Ran the World: Voices of Power and Persuasion Around 2009, the world was suddenly awash with a particular sort of heroine. After “Lean In,” the road to workplace equality 2013-09-17T11:43:00Z

When the heroine, Kylie Carson, who likes monster movies more than girly stuff, has trouble fitting in at school, she comes up with a perfect solution: a cupcake club. Spare Times for Children for March 14-20 2014-03-13T23:26:13Z

The low hum that begins "Yellow Flicker Beat" takes the viewer from the final shot of the transformed heroine Katniss Everdeen to the closing credits of "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1." Lorde finds sisterhood with Katniss in the songs for 'Mockingjay 1' 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

The main course was savored, a cheesecake was split, and after the bill was paid, our hero asked our heroine for her number. We sent the wrong bachelor on this date. Was he Mr. Right after all? 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

When did you last hear an arthritic heroine warn a woman half her age not to slow her down? ‘Lou’ Review: Unfinished Business 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

Belle, the heroine of “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast,” has always had moxie. Review | Olney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ succeeds with a Belle who brings complexity to the role 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z

But where “Anna” differs markedly from “Streetcar” is in a trajectory that affords its eponymous heroine the upper hand, the character in this production seen at the end tellingly perched above proceedings. Theater Review: Jude Law Makes a Revelatory Performance in London 2011-08-23T11:00:07Z

We quickly grasp the real problem: Our fearless heroine finds herself married to an aging, not-so-Wile-E.-Coyote. For Better, for Worse: Three Memoirs Report From Marriage Country 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

Read now, it even shows the novel’s heroine, the idealistic Scout, as a captive of her time, telling her father that she knows change and equality have “got to be slow.” In Harper Lee’s Novels, a Loss of Innocence as Children and Again as Adults 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

In the second paragraph of “Mrs. Spencer and the Oberons,” we learn that the heroine only likes Christmas cards “from the right people” and only “invitations correctly engraved.” Review: ‘Let Me Tell You’ Collects Early Works by Shirley Jackson 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

They objected to her heroines, who had unglamorous jobs as pawnbrokers or used-car saleswomen. “People are at their most vulnerable when they’re naked together”: The rise of erotic romance 2014-01-04T00:00:00Z

I found heroines like Jamie Miller, a West Virginia activist who has fought doggedly for abortion access despite being repeatedly harassed and threatened. The white, conservative Southern women who asked me to keep their abortions secret 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

The lost heroine of “Personal Shopper,” besides being stuck in a job she hates, is also profoundly unnerved over what her life means without the brother with whom she believed she shared a psychic link. ‘Wasp Network’ Review: Fleeing Cuba With Loyalties in Question 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

The audience whoops and cheers in support of their heroine. Welcome to Rom Com Fest, a haven for fans who never stopped believing in happily ever after 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

“The writing is rich and moody, without any unnecessary fuss. … As desperate and consumed as our messy heroine may get in the process, Berry always lets her hold onto her humanity.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

Some of these oddball moments do work to illustrate our heroine's sense of disorientation. In Hanna, Saoirse Ronan and Cate Blanchett Put a Feminine Twist on the Bourne Formula 2011-04-07T09:20:00Z

Even when she seems like another background character, Annie Fang’s Beatrice is incisive, a little offbeat, always trying to play it cool — the kind of relatable teen heroine who seems adopted from a ’90s film. ‘Your Own Personal Exegesis’ Review: Blessed Be the Young and Lustful 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z

The heroines of her sisters’ books were beautiful, however, and Charlotte bristled. Review: ‘Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart’ 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Eyes burning, limbs quivering as she rouses the village to war, Osipova is a true Soviet heroine of the barricade. Mikhailovsky Ballet: Laurencia – review 2013-04-03T17:48:54Z

For example, in the last minute of the very first episode, a homeless black guy talks to our quirky, spunky heroine, Hannah.  Is aggression genetic? 2012-05-28T22:00:00Z

What will keep these readers engaged is how their soon-to-be heroines bloom into their future selves on the page. Latina Girls Dreaming 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z

There had been fears that these old-fashioned shows’ takes on their heroines, who are both bullied by their love interests, might be out of sync in this #MeToo moment. In a Slim Season, the Tonys Show Love to Brits, Classics and Sponges 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

And in a romance, there is nothing better than a fierce #girlsquad to support a heroine in her quest for her happily ever after. Review | If ‘Gaslighter’ is your summer anthem, these novels belong on your bedside table 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z

Clinging protectively to her swaying heroine, a Parisian student returning to her birthplace on Guadeloupe to seek the father she barely remembers, Ms. Monpierre translates her own experiences into a tangy island fable. Movie Review: ‘Elza,’ by the Writer and Director Mariette Monpierre 2012-11-30T01:39:56Z

But I also like Virginia Woolf’s hero/heroine Orlando, with whom I’ve always begun my undergraduate seminar in biography. John Lewis Gaddis: By the Book 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

With her almost cheerful narration, the Kraus heroine, whose name changes but whose identity is the same in each book of the trilogy, plays her loserdom for laughs. I Love Dick on television marks the rise of the female loser 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

Jenny Worton's adaptation makes evident what would be better suggested: "I am looking into the abyss," announces the heroine, as she slips out of sanity. Women, Power and Politics; Through a Glass Darkly 2010-06-19T23:15:00Z

Jennifer Johnson, who created “Chase,” was an executive producer of “Cold Case,” and the two heroines share an ice-princess look and a heaping plate of daddy issues. Television Review: As Killings Mount in Houston, Marshal Dons Cowboy Boots and Starts Running 2010-09-19T23:03:00Z

The author also does his heroine no favors by repeatedly employing empty language to convey her emotions. ‘Sweet Caress’ review: A portrait of a photographer’s tumultuous career 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

“Enter Helen” focuses on the 1960s and 1970s, the decades when Hauser’s heroine took off. Was She a Feminist? The Complicated Legacy of Helen Gurley Brown. 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

The endearing heroine, in her early teens and convinced that she’s an ugly duckling, gets help on her quest from a trio of shape-shifting celestial guides. ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Review: Disney Trips on a Tesseract 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

The classic American heroine, Howland once wrote, breaks the rules and infuriates society out of a mixture of innocence and defiance; she’s often only vaguely aware of the conventions she so scandalously flouts. ‘W-3,’ a Memoir That Recalls Suffering Without Sentimentality or Sensationalism 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z

Ibsen’s heroine was as radically out of step with her 19th-century milieu as Ernaux was with French society 80 years later. On German Stages, Women Take Control 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

Not having experienced sexism himself, he might not have thought to subject his heroine to it. Perspective | ‘The Queen’s Gambit,’ a period drama that erases sexism from 1960, is the best fantasy show of the year 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

His heroine is clearly an amalgam of his institutionalised sister and his young artistic self, whom his father dismissively dubbed "Miss Nancy". A Cavalier for Milady ? review 2011-04-03T20:29:00Z

The heroine follows the twists and turns and seems to be taking us to a successful resolution. Michael Stanley's top 10 African crime novels 2010-06-30T14:27:00Z

She is a haunted, hunted creature who possesses the quick and ruthless means of defending herself—the Goth girl as action heroine. David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Thanks Very Much, But You Really Didn't Have To 2011-12-20T15:00:53Z

As a result, not surprisingly, Stanton and Anthony "made themselves the movement's nineteenth-century heroines." A new book places Lucy Stone at forefront of women's suffrage 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

Mam, a modern heroine who was once a captive herself, rises to protect and save those few young girls that she can. Alice Walker: By the Book 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Ana Lily Amirpour’s The Bad Batch begins in sensational style as the heroine loses a couple of limbs to cannibals, but the story runs out of gas. The final frontier: how female directors broke into sci-fi 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

While the novel suffers at times from its adolescent tone, Jessica is a worthy heroine for our era. ‘The Hollywood Daughter’ of Kate Alcott’s novel learns to speak out against intolerance 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

Of the two heroines, Mindy has a better chance of winning at romantic comedy, though not, of course, at true romance. The TV Watch: ‘The Mindy Project’ and ‘Ben and Kate,’ New Fox Series 2012-09-24T21:56:50Z

“Lee may be shown crawling around the floor with an envelope in her teeth, but the movie still insists on seeing her as a plucky heroine plotting her own sexual emancipation.” What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Voice’ and an S&M Rom-Com 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

Maybe it's because, try as I might, I just can't relate to Patty, the heroine, who before she broke her leg was an intercollegiate basketball player. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice ? reviews 2010-12-18T14:52:01Z

For the movie’s structure, Mr. Gomes turned to “The Arabian Nights,” whose heroine tells stories to her new husband, the king, to delay her death sentence. ‘Arabian Nights’ in Portugal Looks at a Gloomy Nation 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

Yes, even though the title character, also named Radha, is long past her teenage years, like any affecting coming-of-age heroine, she’s learning about herself as she seeks her place in the world. Here’s What We Would Nominate for Best Picture 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

And just when the stigma of the incident begins to fade, a pupil obsessed with our heroine gets it all going again by selling T-shirts that read: "Jenna Lives". Awkward – box set review 2013-04-04T14:00:02Z

Aside from some charmingly nostalgic ruminations by Ping, Pang and Pong, the humanity of the piece lies almost exclusively in the loving devotion of the slave-girl Liù, the real heroine of the story. 'Turandot': an impressive and moving triumph 2012-08-06T17:38:04Z

There is a prince, but she is definitely the heroine. A Minute With: Elle Fanning on the spell of 'Maleficent' 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

Other women, if they can still bear children like the book’s heroine, Offred, are made into handmaids. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ has been feared, banned and loved. Now it’s scaring the bejeezus out of us again. 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

Like every Hollywood hopeful, the heroine of “Pleasure” dreams big: She wants to be a star. ‘Pleasure’ Review: She’s a Go-Getter 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

These stories implicitly, sometimes explicitly, question the reliability and sanity of the heroine or hero, and often reference social or political issues of the day. Kate Mosse's top 10 ghost stories 2010-10-27T10:24:00Z

Sexist, racist comments fly by our heroine without her giving so much as a glance in their direction. Can Women Have It All? Not in Silicon Valley 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

The modern heroine has been sent to her grandfather’s during her parents’ divorce, and the ancient one is trying to find her way to Hawaii. Spare Times for Children Listings for June 24-30 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

She completed her first novel, “Shadow and Bone,” the first of a trilogy featuring a scrappy heroine named Alina Starkov, at the age of 35. A Star of Y.A. Imagines a Supernatural Ivy League in Her Debut for Adults 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Howard exudes the languor of a jaded Tennessee Williams heroine on morphine, an approach that starts off compelling but ultimately turns monotonous. Review: David Mamet’s ‘Ghost Stories,’ Bedtime Tales With a Gunshot 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

Constance Kopp, the feisty heroine of Amy Stewart’s charming novel “Girl Waits With Gun,” sounds like the creation of a master crime writer. ‘Girl Waits With Gun’ review: A feisty heroine inspired by a real detective 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

All this atop a heap of Fitzgeraldiana, new biographies and scholarship — to say nothing of the humming cottage industry dedicated to Zelda Fitzgerald, newly resurrected as a feminist heroine. Nearly a Century Later, We’re Still Reading — and Changing Our Minds About — Gatsby 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

The result is to paint a much more multidimensional portrait of Thatcher than the caricature heroine adored by the right or the devil incarnate loathed by the left. Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography, Volume One: Not for Turning by Charles Moore – review 2013-04-27T13:00:11Z

Researchers chose two chick lit novels – Emily Giffin's Something Borrowed, and Laura Jensen Walker's Dreaming in Black and White, each of which features heroines with "healthy body weight" but "low body esteem". Chick lit 'harms body image', study finds 2013-02-05T12:08:56Z

The show made us both love and hate Alicia, while other television writers fretted over their heroines being “likable.” How 'The Good Wife' Changed Feminism and Politics on TV 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

But both women — unconquerable, conceiving of themselves as heroines — seem to confront the challenge with their own best interests firmly in view and find a positive way forward. How Can We Read Edith Wharton Today? 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

Similarly, Grace Dent's heroine Shiraz Bailey Wood reflects guiltily that she was responsible for originating the nickname "Hairy Bunt" which has driven the unfortunately-named Miss Bunt to flee the teaching profession. The curse of swearing in children's books 2010-09-08T13:07:00Z

Each series pivots on a gutsy teenage heroine who fights to the death like a classic male hero. Movie Review: In ‘Divergent,’ Jolted Awake by Fear and Romance 2014-03-20T14:31:38Z

But then our heroine sees a gap in the awfulness and makes her move. Cirque du Soleil – Worlds Away 3D: a leap in the dark 2012-07-04T16:35:15Z

More afraid of actual struggle than its one-dimensional heroine, “Backwards” flirts halfheartedly with mother-daughter tension and the psychological limbo of thwarted dreams. Movie Review: ‘Backwards,’ With Sarah Megan Thomas, Collegiate Rower 2012-09-20T23:01:10Z

That wasn’t entirely to the good, since a Graham heroine should show some exertion, some strain. Dance Review: Martha Graham Gala Starring a Ballerina, Diana Vishneva 2012-03-17T00:29:15Z

You will see a nominally sympathetic heroine rendered into an insane killing machine! Best of Tribeca: Killing for a "Dream Home" 2010-05-04T20:45:00Z

Bella Hardy echoed this storytelling approach, giving a female focus to traditional songs such as The Seventh Girl and The Herring Girls, populated by gutsy heroines. Cambridge folk festival – review 2013-07-29T19:05:29Z

“Running informants was about cultivating their trust,” the heroine says. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

No one, apart from the heroine, and perhaps the Prince, is particularly nice. Dance Review: ‘Cinderella’ at Edinburgh International Festival 2012-08-31T22:50:44Z

A strength of the documentary, however, is that it doesn’t just set up Ms. Stanton as a tortured heroine. ?Her Name Was Steven? on CNN Presents 2010-03-13T00:45:00Z

The bravery and resilience of the heroines — their humor, their honesty, their pursuit of pleasure, the absolute charm of Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis — collides with an edifice of injustice that seems immovable. What I Learned About Democracy From the Movies 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

The tragedy of “Swan Lake” is its tale of metamorphosis: the heroine must alternate between swan and human form. Critic?s Notebook: One Classic Ballet, Many Interpretations 2011-07-05T00:25:11Z

So, you take a classic heroine and you strip her of her stereotypes: she is no longer weak and pliable, pleasing and emollient, cute and girly. Beauty and the Beast: feminist or fraud? 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

Here Galli’s Fairytale Theater presents its adaptation of the story, with a heroine named Rose and a very miffed 13th Fairy. Spare Times: For Children, for July 6-12 2012-07-05T21:19:52Z

They include the addition of that detailed disclaimer and a revised title, “Padmaavat,” which aligns more closely with the poem, but doesn’t match the name of the heroine, Padmavati. Review: ‘Padmaavat’ and All That Useless Beauty 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

His book captures a vacation’s escapism even as its heroine feels walls closing in. Her Husband Is Kidnapped. Then Things Start to Go Downhill. 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

But although final girls outnumber the boys, it is worth remembering that, before the heroine can triumph, we first have to share in her being threatened and abused. When did you last see a man begging for his life in a horror movie? 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

But in the end there is nothing especially campy about “The Duke of Burgundy,” which neither mocks its heroines nor the breathless, naughty screen tradition to which they belong. ‘The Duke of Burgundy’ Is an Erotic Hothouse Flower 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Though Wheeler's emphasis is on her heroines' journeys, she also describes the one she went on through America herself in order to do her research. O My America! Second Acts in a New World by Sara Wheeler – review 2013-04-06T15:00:01Z

In facing the loss of humanity she felt dealing with her stalkers, Ms. Case was able to fuse her own struggles with those of her mythic, historical heroines. How Neko Case Finally Unleashed Her Feminist Rage 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

As they did in “Let the Sunshine In,” Binoche and Denis trace the disruptive effects of desire on a woman who is neither heroine nor victim. ‘Both Sides of the Blade’ Review: Who Do You Love? 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

The two meet after Lucy's spoiled, overindulged younger sister breaks up Lucy's previous relationship, and our heroine, injured in a serious bike accident, needs a new place to live — with Sam, as it happens. Three stories of loss and love with Northwest roots 2012-02-22T22:02:03Z

She was first noticed as a writer and producer on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” leading a controversial season that sent its demon-staking heroine into a self-destructive spiral. ‘Dietland’ is Violent, Disruptive and Surreal. And Funny. 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

There is, in particular, one bizarre scene in which our heroine, late at night in the subway, takes certain measures because no bathroom is at hand. Frances Ha – review 2013-07-25T14:30:00Z

But the company watched in horror as a series of unfortunate events cost the staging its original heroine, hero, villain and maestro. Behind the Scenes of ‘Tosca,’ the Messiest Production in Met History 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

We view the heroine and the con men objectively, and are asked to find the latter faintly comic. Review 2010-09-16T23:33:00Z

Anyway, “Lysistrata Jones” isn’t about basketball any more than its heroine’s real goal is to lead the boys to triumph on the court. | 'Lysistrata Jones': Happy Sweating and Singing 2011-06-06T02:00:00Z

They are the real heroes and heroines of these nightmarish times. Review | To get us through, finding the wisdom of books written in isolation 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

In “Jane Eyre,” the heroine enters a home with a madwoman whose husband has locked her in the attic; Rose is soon troubled by other malevolent forces. ‘The Power of the Dog’ Review: Wild Hearts on a Closed Frontier 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

“Harriet” pays tribute to their efforts while noting the tactical and temperamental differences between its heroine and her allies, many of whom had been born and raised in freedom. ‘Harriet’ Review: Becoming Moses 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

The only slightly annoying aspect of this is that, in August, Mr. Cameron made headlines by dismissing DC’s “Wonder Woman” as “a step backwards” in terms of depicting big-screen heroines. She’ll Be Back ... but What Will Linda Hamilton’s New ‘Terminator’ Be Like? 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

We are instructed from childhood in this hierarchy of handsomeness — taught to believe that the best-looking people are the heroes and heroines, and the actors with merely "interesting" faces are the villains and losers. Movie review for new Pedro Almodóvar film "Skin I Live In" 2011-10-13T17:10:00Z

When I read Madame Bovary as an unforgiving adolescent, I thought Flaubert's heroine was a bit of a posturing twit and deserved all she got – except ever-loyal Charles. Aiuthor, author: Lisa Appignanesi on the language of love 2011-02-12T00:05:39Z

“Tomorrow Will Be Better,” as its title suggests, also dangles the possibility of wider opportunities for its characters, particularly its go-getter heroine, Margy Shannon. Review | ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ was a classic. Does Betty Smith’s follow-up warrant reconsideration? 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z

The character winds up seeming less the opera’s heroine than its narrator, telling us about her adventures in California. Review: John Adams Mines Gold Rush History for His New Opera 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Fifty pages into Lydia Millet’s novel “Magnificence,” her heroine Susan Lindley, a recently widowed secretary, inherits an enormous mansion from an uncle she barely knew. Lydia Millet’s “Magnificence” offers anything but 2012-12-25T14:00:00Z

The heroine then bands together with a gang of seven quarrelsome dwarves to reclaim what is rightly hers. Kristen Stewart courted for "Snow White" 2011-01-27T07:12:41Z

It’s narrated in the third person, from Jean Louise’s perspective, and the heroine, and the times, have changed. Preview of Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’ Reveals a Different Tale 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

As desperate and consumed as our messy heroine may get in the process, Berry always lets her hold onto her humanity. A Daughter’s Search for a Father Wanted for Murder 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

To suggest that Ms. Hallenberg’s artistry has been limited to the heroes and heroines of the Baroque, however, would be unfair. Is This the Best Opera Singer You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

The most obvious example of that desire has been the movie Hunger Games, set in a brutal, futuristic dystopia where the bow-wielding heroine is a ferocious young girl called Katniss Everdeen. Bella beats Bond as Twilight movie topples Skyfall from box-office peak 2012-11-24T16:22:26Z

While Jasmine may be memorable, and Blanchett, 44, has received favorable reviews for the role, she is far from being a heroine or even a likeable character. Woody Allen's 'Blue Jasmine:' portrait of a lady who loses it all 2013-07-26T01:31:45Z

Disney had been auditioning actors to voice his new screen heroine and had rejected between 300 and 400 applicants. Ilene Woods obituary 2010-07-19T17:01:00Z

She was inspired casting as Lara Croft, the action heroine whose screen career predated the modern predominance of superheroes and Marvel studios. Angelina Jolie: Hollywood won't be the same without her 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

You have a beautiful, enigmatic heroine who falls in love with two men and manipulates them into fighting to the death over her. Bollywood Carmen: Bizet goes bhangra 2013-06-05T19:00:01Z

“Maggie the Cat is alive!” says Tennessee Williams’s famous heroine, and it’s true in the big handsome production that opened Monday at the Round House Theatre. Williams’s ‘Cat’ lands on its feet at Round House 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

New Under the Sun: Books for Basking The heroine of this year’s best beach read was beheaded 476 years ago. Books of The Times: ‘Granddad, There’s a Head on the Beach’ and Other Summer Reads 2012-05-24T22:43:29Z

The horrible heroine played by Charlize Theron strips out of her soiled designer dress and stands naked but for her pantyhose and a pair of chicken cutlet-shaped silicone pasties cupped to her breasts. TIME?s Favorite Cultural Moments of 2011 2011-12-27T15:00:22Z

They play with dolls and compose torrid stories of backstage dramas in which plucky blue-eyed heroines save the day. Zadie Smith’s New Novel Takes on Dance, Fame and Friendship 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Like the film’s hero and heroine, after decades of turbulence, Pawlikowski’s parents eventually reunited one last time, late in life. In “Cold War,” Pawel Pawlikowski Tells His Parents’ Love Story 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z

The climactic confrontation between our heroine and the creep stalking her is vicious, sickening, cathartic – you know, just like gender relations in 2018. The best films of 2018 … that you didn't see 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

In one of the saddest moments of new black comedy series Dietland, the show’s heroine, Plum Kettle, lovingly bakes and decorates a cake. Killer looks: how Dietland confronts the violence of beauty culture 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

A few pages into “Make Your Home Among Strangers,” Ms. Crucet’s heroine, Lizet, recounts the time her father and his friends, as preteenagers, saw a body floating in the canals of Miami. What to Read Before Your Florida Trip 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

Brad Fields’s “Cinderella” lighting is so dim that the heroine’s face is scarcely visible as she enters the palace for what should be the most enchanting arrival in all of ballet. Ballet Theater’s Met Season, a Mix of Sparkling Moments and Familiar War Horses 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

The story’s heroine, its dialogue and even its themes of regret and loneliness seem to be swallowed up by the need to maintain an appearance of contemporary cheek. ‘Persuasion’ Review: The Present Intrudes Into the Past 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

The new protagonists include Rey, a heroine so capable that she does all the saving; Finn, a black leading man wielding blasters and lightsabers; and Poe Dameron, described as the Resistance’s “best pilot.” A gay “Star Wars” hero could save lives in this galaxy: Why the lip bite that launched a thousand ‘ships matters 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

The pictures in this gallery, meanwhile, are emblematic of Marshall at his very best — a distillation of a long career spent chronicling the charismatic, chameleon-like and frequently unhinged heroes and heroines of rock. Happy 70th Birthday, Jimi Hendrix: Photos of an Incendiary Talent 2012-11-27T19:00:48Z

Women were banned from Roman stages in the early 18th century, so Vinci deployed castrati as his heroines as well as his heroes. Vinci: Artaserse – review 2012-11-14T15:31:00Z

Inevitably, since it deals with her perceptions, the novel is like its heroine in several ways: unflashy, well-intentioned, slender, modest, good at small talk. Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2011-07-29T21:55:02Z

It is no coincidence that the heroine is called Constance; the name echoes the book’s questions about the continuity of mind and where personhood resides. A Human Cloning Error and Existential Questions Fuel This Science Fiction Romp 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

The result is a surreal and bold exploration of trauma and recovery that doesn’t yield closure in the traditional sense but empowers our heroine to move forward. Best TV episodes of 2020: ‘The Queen’s Gambit,’ ‘BoJack Horseman,’ ‘This Is Us’ and more 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

Amanda Root, the latest in a long line of distinguished Hesters, brings out particularly well the self-hatred that drives Rattigan's heroine to attempted suicide. The Deep Blue Sea ? review 2011-07-26T17:31:57Z

Their speculations about the translator’s identity were intriguing—one pointed out that “D. E. Brooke” has more than a passing resemblance to the name of the heroine of “Middlemarch”—but offered little to go on. Translating a Novel of Sadism 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

Well, the New York Times had this to say of her performance: "As memorable and vivid a heroine as you are likely to see on screen this season." First sight: Jennifer Lawrence 2010-06-17T21:45:00Z

Anyway, the heroine grieved guiltily until, on the last beat, she fell dead in her husband’s arms. Dance Review: Jin Xing?s ?Shanghai Tango? at Joyce Theater 2012-02-01T22:22:07Z

Its heroine was a spirited 9-year-old trapped in a repressive convent school, and her experience spoke to Ms. Callil, who had suffered a similar upbringing. Carmen Callil, Founder of the Feminist Press Virago, Dies at 84 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z

Whenever "Dickinson" takes grand license with its heroine's history my appreciation for this show is renewed. A salute to "Dickinson" and its devotion to using notoriety to spotlight other unsung histories 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z

Ballet’s heroes and heroines wear clothing, and yet they deploy lines, positions and phrasing so that they too may project an image of the body as perfectly harmonious and apparently flawless. Nakedness in Dance, Taken to Extremes 2012-08-16T12:00:00Z

Looking back now, Leach is aware of all this, and makes no excuses for her mistakes nor claims to be a heroine. Inside the mind of serial killer Fred West 2011-07-31T19:30:01Z

You may never have yearned so much for a show’s heroine to calm down, even for a second. Review: ‘The Unsinkable Molly Brown’ Has Its Ups and Ups 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

You realize the degree to which Ms. Parton, a Tennessee mountain native, now 66, is a folk heroine to people throughout the South. Movie Review: ‘Hollywood to Dollywood,’ a Documentary 2012-08-30T23:49:16Z

Sheridan specialised in decorous English heroines, giving moderately prim performances in an era when being "ladylike" was considered desirable rather than off-putting. Dinah Sheridan 2012-11-25T19:52:38Z

Sterling Hyltin was making her debut as the elegantly passionate, doom-hungry young heroine of “La Valse”; she touched boldly on facets of self-destructive dark sophistication new to her. City Ballet Revives Three Pieces in Repertory 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

“A Radiant Soul” by Alexander is set in 1881 North Carolina, where heroine Sarah Webster is visiting from the Wyoming Territory. Sarah MacLean’s romance pick of the month: ‘Daughters of a Nation’ 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

Will our heroine, having been pummeled with 20 years’ worth of lemons, continue to make lemonade that nobody wants to drink? ‘Tracy Flick Can’t Win’ Catches Up With a Hard-Luck High Achiever 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z

Portrayed as a bewildered but intrepid young soul by Ayla Bellamy, this nameless heroine becomes not just an onlooker, but a key player, in the tales that follow. Two Timely Takes on Hans Christian Andersen’s Tales 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

Unlike some women in country music – and indeed unlike the heroines of many of her songs – she dressed conservatively and had a sober and scandal-free life. Kitty Wells obituary 2012-07-17T11:27:20Z

On OWN's website there is a "channel finder" to help Winfrey's US fans find their heroine up among the jungle of the triple digit cable channels. Oprah Winfrey launches OWN television channel 2010-12-31T12:18:56Z

True, you cannot help rooting for Ms. Thurber’s heroine eventually to slip free of the bonds that, despite her intellectual ambition, keep pulling her back to her hometown. Theater Review: Thurber’s ‘Hill Town Plays’ Are Produced by Rattlestick 2013-09-06T02:00:01Z

On “30,” Adele complicates the clear pop roles of lover, heroine, victim or fighter. Adele Has a Lot of Big Feelings on ‘30’ 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

Helen, the heroine of “The Mill of Dreams,” passes 20 satisfying years living entirely through her imagination, fantasizing myriad exotic adventures with a sailor-boy she once spoke to for seven minutes. Review | From the author of ‘Morning Has Broken,’ magical tales perfect for Valentine’s Day 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

The heroine spends 450 pages jumping from fire to frying pan and back again. ‘Sweet Caress’ review: A portrait of a photographer’s tumultuous career 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

But for Union’s heroine, that trip down the aisle is an important one for reasons beyond tying up the plot’s loose ends, or fulfilling its fans’ fantasies for the character. Can an ambitious black woman "have it all"? "Being Mary Jane" finds the answer in the end 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

Candida, the heroine, finds herself the object of a tug-of-war between two men. Candida – review 2013-07-11T13:23:00Z

Like a lot of gritty heroines, she is far from perfect. Mother superior: it’s been a great year for on-screen mums 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

But once I ventured out, everything was American, including my heroines. Latina Girls Dreaming 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z

That gripe aside, Jess Bailey is a believable heroine, abandoned by her mother for a South African physiotherapist, deposited at boarding school by her professor father. Fiction for older children – review 2013-03-30T15:00:02Z

Whatever tension Alfred Hitchcock introduced to his movies, his heroines were icy icons of perfection. Review: Grace Kelly: A Legacy of Wholesome Elegance 2010-05-03T11:30:00Z

The opening of “My Hat” sounds as if it were being spoken by the heroine of a musical just before she belts out her big number: Michael Dirda on the misunderstood poet Stevie Smith 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

Usually, one looks on grief-stricken as this most impulsive of heroines, played here by a rather stagy Zoë Wanamaker, is separated from the homestead that is her life. Theater Review: Chekhov's Villain Gives an Audience Someone to Root For 2011-05-31T13:30:06Z

In “Prince Dung Beetle,” for instance, a bug is transformed back into a handsome young man because, we are told, the story’s whiny heroine took pity on him. A newly discovered trove of unknown fairy tales: ‘The Turnip Princess’ 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

But this is one — with its snacks and its sunniness and its heroine’s determination to exploit her fake diagnosis for all she can — that seemingly only Bayer can tell. In ‘I Love That for You,’ Vanessa Bayer Sells Out 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

As well as the outrage around a Texan playing our English heroine, I remember endless coverage of Zellweger’s weight gain for the part. My favourite film aged 12: Bridget Jones's Diary 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

This fictionalized account dwells most lovingly on the illicit affair between the heroine, compared by a contemporary to a “panther,” and the Austrian Count Charles Kinsky. History Lives in Fiction: From Jennie Churchill’s Britain to Jacksonian Cincinnati 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

But it’s important to observe Shakespeare’s heroines were as flawed as they were fabulous. Though she be but little, she is fierce: Kim Kardashian West is a Shakespearean heroine for our times 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Plenty of tension, a likeable heroine and some superb set-pieces in the claustrophobic subterranean tunnels add up to an exhilarating read. Laura Wilson's crime fiction roundup – reviews 2012-11-23T08:00:02Z

She sets the tone, and she is its unlikely heroine. Where to look for treasure in California's new gold rush? Try John Adams' new opera 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z

Giselle is an emotional roller coaster of a role in which the heroine must transform herself from a human into a ghostly being. Review: A Reimagined ‘Giselle,’ With South African Roots 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

Fabian's film is so benign and enjoyable, viewers may find themselves uttering one of its heroine's oft-used refrains, "Oh, that's lovely." Lesley Manville is endearing in "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris," a feel-good couture fairy tale 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

Lottie’s ship is sinking, but rather than let the hero sail to her rescue, this heroine engineers her own. Love Notes 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

This first installment starts with Collins and Lawrence describing the mental state of our favorite heroine… Compare Katniss at the beginning of Hunger Games and Katniss at the beginning of this movie. Katniss is “A Wreck”: A Conversation with Suzanne Collins and Francis Lawrence 2013-11-18T13:00:41Z

The girls — Rapunzel, Cinderella and Snow White — grow up to suffer in the same ways as those original heroines. Spare Times for Children for May 22-28 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

The hero, Maurizio, Count of Saxony, takes the eponymous heroine in his arms and asks: "Will you take my illustrious name?" Adriana Lecouvreur; Tansy Davies ? review 2010-11-21T00:09:00Z

In this debut novel, Khan gives readers a Muslim American heroine whose daily challenges as a middle schooler will ring true. These books can help build strong girls — and boys — for today’s world 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

The classic tale of magic, wit and a smart heroine. 16 top entertainment picks to kick off 2012 2011-12-28T21:43:08Z

So it’s perhaps to be expected that his latest effort, “The Spy,” should bridge the gap between reality and fable by making a heroine of Mata Hari, who straddles both realms. Paulo Coelho’s ‘Spy’ uncovers the life of Mata Hari 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

In Iago's Demise, Faith and the Muse address a quintet of Shakespearean heroines, with their "possible futures", "doting lovers" and "obvious endings". Readers recommend: songs about Shakespeare – results 2013-02-14T14:00:01Z

Her pre-Hays-Code melodrama followed a doomed romance between a plantation owner and one of his workers, and ended with its spurned heroine burning the fields of her former lover. ‘Cane Fire’ Review: Here Am I, Your Plundered Island 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

Actors vied to play his heroines, and he was the standby of am-dram groups all over the empire. George Bernard Shaw and feminism 2011-01-23T22:30:01Z

Turan said the early scenes "are 'Lucy's' most conventional and most entertaining, as our heroine discovers an escalating series of superpowers." 'Lucy' has more firepower than brain power, reviews say 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Chapin said he authorized a revisionist updating of the “Cinderella” book, with a more assertive heroine, to be done by Douglas Carter Beane, because he had faith in Mr. Beane and the producers. With ?Porgy? on Broadway, Gershwin Heirs Flex Their Rights 2012-01-09T13:27:40Z

Unlike Red Detachment, the new ballet was a heritage project rather than a revolutionary one, mythologising the past rather than the future: its setting is feudal China, its heroine an imperial concubine. Step-by-step guide to dance: National Ballet of China 2011-08-11T16:28:27Z

The script provides a few hints about her relationship with her mother and her marriage to the hapless Mladen, but she is mostly a grand enigma, a heroine of literature stranded in dreary, pedestrian circumstances. Review: ‘The Lesson’ Is a Test of Conscience and Patience 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

In making her into a kind of vigilante heroine, the ending turned an enigma into a cause. Rewind TV: The X Factor; The Trouble with Aid; The Killing; The Poison Tree; This World – review 2012-12-16T00:05:52Z

Rapace's steely gaze stays with you when the movie's over; a unique heroine who finds strength in fury. 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo': An indelible look into a 40-year-old mystery 2010-03-18T22:03:00Z

The Nora Ephron opening quote, "Be the heroine of your life not the victim", sums up the style and the theme. Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies, by Hadley Freeman – review 2013-05-19T12:00:13Z

Clark is asking us to do a messy little math problem to see what a mess her heroine is in. Is Brandy Clark the most empathetic storyteller in country music? 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

The director Raymond Bernard interlaced the footage with shots of his heroine for a patriotic finale. Unlocking the Mystery of Honegger 2010-08-29T02:30:00Z

The answer was that the lengths to which its heroines were willing to go to be free — to be left alone — was thrilling to some viewers while it made others uncomfortable. What I Learned About Democracy From the Movies 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

In presenting an English heroine of Italian, possibly Jewish and probably North African descent, it is also a rebuke to xenophobes. Review ‘Emilia’: An Elizabethan Poet Takes Her Rightful Place Onstage 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

Don't forget the trophy room with dead animals, the echoey and disused ballroom, the hidden office, the library that isn't really for our Belle-ish heroine and the rooms after rooms filled with stuffy antique furnishing. "Flowers in the Attic: The Origin": How to be Gothic, from creepy manors to severe housekeepers 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z

Maite’s swooning fantasies are offset by a bone-deep pragmatism: She knows that the heroines in Secret Romance are always saved by men with deep pockets. Review | Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s ‘Velvet Was the Night’ is a noir-thriller as captivating as its title 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z

A widowed commoner who becomes the Queen of England after her marriage to King Edward IV, Woodville is the heroine of the story, "the one we root for". The White Queen: Women in history rediscovered 2013-06-12T08:21:51Z

This version of the heroine was younger and somewhat naïve but an even more ferocious warrior. Wonder Woman and Her Evolving Look 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

Sadness is nonetheless the movie’s stealth heroine, and her heroism is of an especially resonant kind. At Comic-Con, It Feels Like the Year of the Woman 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

A heroine who said her job now is "to excavate that part of myself and to create a new cavern inside me where a candle stays lit." The exasperating Lena Dunham paradox: Heads she wins, tails we lose 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

In the words of one psychologist interviewed for a 1953 Los Angeles Times article, for the first time "the women of America have found a heroine who makes them feel superior to men." In 1953, "Queen-crazy" American women looked to Elizabeth II as a source of inspiration 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z

She looked about the age of Nabokov’s heroine—the doll girl of another era. Doll’s Play 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

The theater filled with rippling waves of enthusiasm, girls in sequins and lace and sawed-off gloves, and I watched as they excitedly took their seats, clapping and hollering for their heroine. Skout’s minor problem 2012-06-19T23:20:00Z

But in doing so, he also cautioned, “we are reinventing her posthumously as a star and making her into such a heroine that her paradoxes are being obscured.” Latin American Design and Architecture Through the Years 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

“This is real life; this isn’t a book,” Ana, the show’s heroine, says to her tycoon suitor. Theater Listings for Sept. 12-18 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

“Sex and the City,” which began in 1998, when its heroines were already in their 30s, placed boy trouble in a satiny frame of glamour, cocktails and pricey real estate. Television Review: Lena Dunham?s ?Girls? Begins on HBO 2012-04-12T18:49:02Z

In the final movement, “Escape, Flight, Sanctuary,” having been condemned, the heroine breaks free: Her escape comes across as an exploit of searing intensity, with the violin playing frenetic eruptions. Review: John Adams Unveils ‘Scheherazade.2,’ an Answer to Male Brutality 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

On top of this, our heroine was still in the middle of filming “Dodsworth,” her big opportunity to move up in class. Woody Allen Reviews a Graphic Tale of a Scandalous Starlet 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

And in Tracy Letts’s play about an Ohio woman, the heroine will be played by six of them. 14 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

It would have been easy to let her slide into ludicrous caricature or salt-of-the-earth heroine, and she never does. Pick of the week: Couples therapy with Meryl and Tommy Lee 2012-08-10T00:00:00Z

Any attempt to make genuine feminists out of his heroines struggles, because they all, ultimately, serve Wagner’s own visions of femininity. Review: Bayreuth’s First American Director Arrives With ‘Lohengrin’ 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

Freitas’s novel is structured like a prism, refracting the heroine’s life in different directions to raise questions about motherhood and female identity. New & Noteworthy, From Brilliant Essays to Stupid People 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

They tend to talk tough, impudently snap their gum and are always casually stripping in front of the modest heroine. Albatross: Just Call Her Emilia Bad-Elia 2012-01-12T19:03:29Z

When our accidental heroines make their way to the inner sanctum of Streamberry, they stumble upon a metaverse as infinite and varied as the individual observing them. The best new "Black Mirror" episode is a Netflix self-own that plays out our current AI nightmare 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z

Even when its heroine finally manages to put her desires into words, "Pariah" benefits from ambiguity. "Pariah" offers fresh take on lesbian teen genre 2011-01-24T04:20:49Z

The invention of a new aristocratic heroine, who chooses to march with the people, creates a tragic victim for the plot. Bolshoi Ballet: The Flames of Paris | Dance review 2010-04-01T21:30:00Z

Her small, sad smile and delicate gestures made her ideal for romantic heroines slow to realize their own strength. Joan Fontaine: The Oscar-Winning Star and Her Notorious Sister Act 2013-12-25T18:53:48Z

But the Lopezes saw the sisters – a Disney first, in terms of lead heroines – in a different way. The Carpetbagger: How Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Inspired a Disney Princess 2014-02-19T18:05:47Z

It broke ground in U.S. children's television by featuring a bilingual, Latina heroine. Voice of `Dora The Explorer,' network end dispute 2010-12-03T18:26:00Z

As the book opens, Darling, its heroine, is 10 years old and living in Paradise, one of the worst slums in an unnamed African country. ‘We Need New Names’: harsh vision of the African Diaspora 2013-08-24T15:12:52Z

Its writers have done something unusual with their heroine: they’ve arrested her ascent, and devoted an entire season to her psychological limitations. "The Good Wife" and the Good Life 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

When we first meet our heroine, a soft-spoken but resilient 40-something, she’s friendless and taken for granted by just about everyone, which the director Anthony Chen subtly links to her immigrant status. ‘Wet Season’ Review: Teacher’s Pet 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

An eyelash-fluttering heroine is not the worst of out representation woes. Angel Face adds menace to Dennis on the Beano's Bash Street 2013-07-08T14:36:59Z

But “Inheritance,” directed by Vaughn Stein, insists on maintaining Collins’s heroine status. ‘Inheritance’ Review: A Rich Kid’s Estate Surprise 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

That sounds like the plight of some Brothers Grimm heroine, but this is no fairy tale. Review | What does passion sound like? How five audiobook actors talk sexy. 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

Pauline perceives herself as a tragic heroine in spite of her drearily workaday context. 'Bright New Boise' at Chance Theater: Secrets and scandal in the break room of Hobby Lobby 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

Many were pleased that Star Wars: The Force Awakens starred a fierce heroine, Daisy Ridley, as its lightsaber-wielding Jedi disciple warrior. 7 Things We Learned From the 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' Trailer 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Ms. Suárez suffers with a dignity reminiscent of Bette Davis and other great screen heroines of the past, even as she surrenders to a longing that borders on mania. Review: Another Woman on the Verge in Almodóvar’s ‘Julieta’ 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

With the help of a hard-boiled cop, our heroine's got to put together the increasingly disturbing pieces. Tribeca: 20 films to catch at N.Y.'s spring showcase 2010-04-22T01:01:00Z

At one moment of crisis, our beautiful heroine actually tells another character, “Tonight, I shall grant you my supreme favours.” ‘Sea of Glass’: A 1955 masterpiece you’ve probably never heard of 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Like actresses who play the flinty heroines of Samuel Beckett’s late plays, Riva must convey Anne’s personality through severely limited means: the slouch or starch in her body, the clarity or opacity in her eyes. Michael Haneke's Poignant Amour: The Flowers and the Stars 2012-05-21T18:43:58Z

Our nominal heroine, Sarah, is as capable of doing bad as she is good, and even her foster mother, the supposedly saintly Mrs S, is more than she seems. Have you been watching … Orphan Black, season two? 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

Scenes for the god Krishna and the heroine Draupadi showed different aspects of Kathakali gesture: heroic, divine and tragic emotions, for which the music changed drastically. Review: Dance Arrives From India. If Only It Could Stay Longer. 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

"Hetty Feather" is a feisty Victorian heroine who is left at a Foundling hospital as a baby. 'Children look at me as an agony aunt' 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

Our updated heroine is Sade Afolabi, a Harvard-educated woman who has returned to the city of her birth, and who feels stymied by this holdup of one of her key U.S. goodies. Telling a Different Story About Africa 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z

“It was the last that Jim saw of the heroine who literally lifted us up when we were down and helped us salvage our celebratory evening,” Frazier wrote. She put a stranger on her shoulders at a Phillies rally. Now fans want them to marry. 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

“Objects also die, my friend,” says Bassani’s young heroine — an embrace of beauty and transience affirmed by every one of Ghirri’s photos. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

The soprano Corinne Winters portrayed the wholesome heroine with a radiant voice and winsome allure here on Thursday in the Opera Theater of St. Louis’s charming staging, a co-production with Ireland’s Wexford Festival Opera. Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Kiss’ at the Opera Theater of St. Louis 2013-06-23T20:56:36Z

The movie opens with a dreadful Tinder date, one that dies a swift death after our heroine tells her suitor she’d rather have her “period nonstop for a thousand years than continue with this conversation”. The incredible Jessica Williams: 'Great comedy comes from feeling like you've gotten punched up' 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

First off, Leia’s comic book features two heroines who are “kinda like sisters,” but polar opposites in demeanor: Violet and Violence. This nice Southern family has a body in the attic — literally 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

After a series of even more unfortunate family events, our heroine — invasive ruminations arriving “each one with a little mouse face” — retreats alone to a hotel by the ocean. From Marguerite Duras, an Uncovered Tale of Young Womanhood 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z

The heroine of Hank Green’s debut novel, “An Absolutely Remarkable Thing,” is an art student in New York City named April May, who finds herself at the center of a vast international mystery. YouTube Star Hank Green Will Publish His First Novel Next Year 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

The harborside statue of native Hans Christian Andersen’s aquatic heroine may be one of the city’s biggest tourist attractions, but it is also disconcertingly small and of questionable artistic value. Copenhagen: What to See and What to Skip 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

In this so-so romcom our heroine hits jackpot, netting a man and baby in one after her two best friends – a husband and wife – are killed in a car crash. Life as We Know It - review 2010-10-07T21:20:00Z

At the end of last season, things were up in the air for our heroine. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt season two trailer – heaven is a Christmas shop 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

I don’t recall ever seeing a dramatization of “Medea” in which the heroine is less internalized. Dance Review: Smuin Ballet Performs ‘Oh, Inverted World’ at the Joyce 2012-08-15T22:30:56Z

Like its audacious heroine, the new stage version of “Yentl” gets itself into a bit of a pickle. ‘Yentl’: Pop music in the shtetl

But Brown is a warmhearted writer with a lot of affection for her two heroines and little patience for pretensions. ‘The Light of Paris’: What’s the quickest way for a heroine to change her life? 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

Alongside the immaculately composed Lopatkina she looks almost like a silent screen heroine. MoveTube: Anna Pavlova, forever the Dying Swan 2012-08-28T12:18:00Z

It also supplies considerably more of heroine Samus Aran's back story – she says more in the introductory sequence to this game than in the entire rest of the series combined. This week's new games 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z

Cleopatra is once again getting the big screen treatment, this time courtesy of Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins and the DC heroine herself, Gal Gadot. Gal Gadot as Cleopatra is a backwards step for Hollywood representation 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

I very closely identified with the heroine, Meg Murry, a girl who felt extremely disenfranchised in her world. ArtsBeat Blog: Julianne Moore's Favorite Books from Childhood 2011-09-13T18:42:47Z

And Ms. Grey captured particular attention, dancing not only as Lilac Fairy but also as the double heroine Odette-Odile in “Swan Lake” as well as in title roles as Giselle, Princess Aurora and others. Beryl Grey, Acclaimed British Ballerina, Is Dead at 95 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

The film puts Juliet's secretaries in an office overlooking the balcony of the house where it is claimed Shakespeare's heroine lived. Dear Juliet: the fans who write to Shakespeare's heroine 2010-05-19T19:59:00Z

And the troubled, flaxen-haired Alice, like the heroine of some existential drama, seems to be undergoing an identity crisis, enquiring: "If I'm not me, then who am I?" Alice in Wonderland ? review 2011-01-04T22:30:01Z

In the new show, “How I Met Your Father,” Duff plays the lovelorn heroine — a striving photographer named Sophie with a perky New York apartment that few real starving artists would be able to afford. Stop Asking Hilary Duff Who the Father Is 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z

Q: Were there Latina heroines — outside of your family — that you also looked up to? ‘I don’t baby anyone’: The tough-love message in Sonia Sotomayor’s new books 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

Whatever it is, it's state of the art film-making: lean, snappy, tense, gripping and as single-minded as its heroine in the 10-year pursuit of Bin Laden. This week's new films 2013-01-26T06:00:06Z

She met her heroine Precious Bryant, too, who lives in a remote house "so dilapidated you wouldn't think anyone lived here". Radio review: Lady Plays the Blues 2010-06-28T05:45:00Z

Mr. Sakurazaka doesn’t acknowledge “Groundhog Day,” but he names his heroine Rita — the name of the romantic foil played by Andie MacDowell in that film — suggesting that he is obliquely paying a debt. Tom Cruise Battles Invaders in ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

It's a conceit that pays off well, given that Carroll's heroine is usually defined by her capacity for shrinkage, growth spurts and bouts of tears. Alice 2010-06-25T20:30:00Z

But the centerpiece of a movie composed entirely of centerpieces belongs to Anne Hathaway, as the tragic heroine Fantine. ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ ‘The Hobbit,’ ‘Les Misérables’ | New DVDs 2013-03-18T21:47:22Z

Janie Taylor, making her New York debut as the heroine of “Serenade,” showed her wonderfully individual nervous intensity but also her insecure footwork. Dance Review: Leaps and Bounds of At-Home Season 2010-09-16T04:15:00Z

The depths she plumbs is why her heroines remain seared in one's brain. "You Mean Everything to Me" star Morgan Saylor on this seductive cautionary tale: "I love bleakness" 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

It is a continuation of the old story with a new heroine – Arthur's daughter, Rhianna Pendragon. Lance of Truth by Katherine Roberts - review 2012-11-18T09:00:00Z

Kathy Bates cries with wild-eyed joy in her Academy Award-winning performance in the 1990 horror movie "Misery," ecstatic that the heroine of her favorite books has been brought back from the dead. ArtsBeat: Stephen King's 'Misery' Back From the Dead in Bucks County 2012-09-20T14:40:46Z

“Darling, it’s better down where it’s wetter,” sang the calypso crab to the fishtailed heroine of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” in 1989, hymning the joys of ocean-floor habitation. Review: A Shaggy Fish Story With a Bounty of Questing Heroines 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

Most significant in recent years she has been a central figure in the three pieces Alexei Ratmansky has created for the company, acquiring new dimensions as a heroine in his emotionally resonant works. Wendy Whelan, Ballerina of Architectural Bearing 2012-01-22T05:20:06Z

Their fall is as fun as it is satisfying — for heroine, hero and reader alike. The best romance for October by Maggie Shayne, Cara Connelly and Jennifer Ashley

But the parents of Wanda, the heroine of the new family musical “Wanda’s Monster,” must not be fans of series like “Finding Bigfoot.” Theater Review: ‘Wanda’s Monster,’ With Laurie Berkner’s Tunes, at Theater 3 2013-04-25T00:12:03Z

The result: Disney’s first Polynesian heroine, who is decidedly unique from princesses past. Here Are TIME's Most Anticipated Movies of Fall 2016 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

The deliciously dramatic and slightly over-the-top “Betrayed” reaffirms that after more than 20 novels, the Edgar Award-winning Scottoline is still able to create surprising, suspenseful plots with likable, daring heroines at the center. In ‘Betrayed,’ Lisa Scottoline has created a modern Nancy Drew

I'd like to propose an ode to a different kind of heroine: Hope, the cranky grand dame of "Virgin River." In defense of Hope: Why the so-called worst character on “Virgin River” is actually the best 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z

The heroine of this story, Veblen Amundsen-Hovda, chats with it regularly. Review: Facing Marriage and Befriending a Squirrel in ‘The Portable Veblen’ 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

As it is, the film, like its heroine for most of her life, is trapped by conventional expectations and ways of being. Review: ‘The Danish Girl,’ About a Transgender Pioneer 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

The film’s worldwide success may turn the Oscar-winning actress into a blockbuster heroine, a rarefied combination that “Us” is positioned to affirm. This Is Lupita Nyong’o. Hollywood, Please Keep Up. 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

The baritone Rod Gilfry, who starred as Whitman and has returned to play the heroine’s father in “Eurydice,” said he admired that Mr. Aucoin was already “keenly tuned to what a voice can do.” A Young Composer Takes On Opera’s Oldest Myth 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

Wade presents each surreal encounter as a manifestation of the heroine's trauma – the Mad Hatter's tea party becomes a grotesque travesty of the funeral wake introduced at the beginning. Alice 2010-06-25T20:30:00Z

The passage strikes an exquisite balance and at the same time speaks straight from the conflicted heart of this collection’s many heroines — hardheaded yet rapturous, besieged yet resilient. Review | The appeal of ‘And I Do Not Forgive You’ is hard to articulate but impossible to resist 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

Our heroine, Anna, and her little brother, Finn, “had always been told that the Wall kept them safe from a scary, unknown world.” Opening the Door: 3 Picture Books Look at Life on the Other Side 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Their heroines originate as victims, pushed to criminal excesses by injustices done to them. Arts & Leisure Preview: Violence That Art Didn?t See Coming 2010-02-24T19:11:00Z

His heroines also tend towards a certain type. Studio Ghibli: Leave the boys behind 2011-07-14T21:00:03Z

In genre terms she is a western hero, an action hero, a romantic heroine and a tween idol. Arts & Leisure: Katniss Everdeen, a New Type of Woman Warrior 2012-04-04T12:00:00Z

That he made his conflicted heroine a female spiritual leader, at a time when the trials of black women were hardly front and center in American drama, imbues “The Amen Corner” with a revolutionary spirit. Review | See ‘The Amen Corner’ and feel the power of James Baldwin 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

Of course, Watson is still playing a fairytale heroine in a film with “Beauty” in the title, so she isn’t exactly dismantling the patriarchy. Emma Watson: the feminist and the fairytale 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

But there’s a twist: in these dark worlds, the heroines are more likely to be valued for their fertility or marriageability than their intellect or athletic skill. ArtsBeat: Teenage Girls in a Dystopian World 2011-05-09T13:00:36Z

One by one, members of Clinton’s staff approach in reverent tones to declare her their heroine. Hillary Clinton meets Mary Beard: ‘I would love to have told Trump: “Back off, you creep”’ 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z

The heroine, Tatiana, starts as a bookish teenager in the Russian provinces but ends up a great society lady in St. Petersburg. Review: In ‘Onegin,’ Two Star Ballerinas on Contrasting Arcs 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z

The sex and the politics are of a piece, in keeping with the vow of its heroine, played by the young actress Hao Lei, “to live more and more intensely.” In ?Spring Fever,? Lou Ye Confronts China?s Repression 2010-07-30T17:49:00Z

They’re played with varying degrees of caricature, very finely judged; the degrees of subtle, funny exaggeration are in proportion to their psychological distance from the child heroine. Dance Review: ‘The Nutcracker’ From American Ballet Theater at BAM 2013-12-15T22:25:37Z

Diana dreamed of ballet and took class with celebrity dancers; “Swan Lake” involves royalty, another woman who steals the prince’s heart and the despair of the heroine. Dance Review: ‘Swan Lake’ by Australian Ballet at Koch Theater 2012-06-17T22:05:37Z

While his actors flounder through dress rehearsal on a seemingly haunted stage, protesters amass outside over the play's controversial premise: Its Armenian heroine ultimately escapes with a Turkish soldier. '1915' a creative take on Armenian genocide 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

A teenager who gave voice to the spunky heroine of Nickelodeon's "Dora The Explorer" says the network cheated her out of millions of dollars by underpaying her for work on the groundbreaking children's cartoon series. Teen voice of 'Dora The Explorer' sues Nickelodeon 2010-10-07T23:02:00Z

Republican establishment figures, such as Bill Kristol, called her a “heroine.” Pundit Mona Charen blew up CPAC. Even she was stunned by the vitriol that ensued. 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

Even in the relatively sunny “Far From the Madding Crowd,” three of the novel’s five central characters come to very bad ends, as does his most enduring tragic heroine, Tess — she of the d’Urbervilles. The Return of the Hardy Novel to the Screen 2012-07-13T16:29:16Z

Contrasting the cold sterility of her locations with a fiery emotional urgency, she pushes her increasingly distraught heroine from vulnerability to defiance, from a whimper to a roar. Review: Seeking Justice After a Rape in ‘Beauty and the Dogs’ 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

These tales, with their lessons about how to navigate past a menacing wolf or the cruelty of fate, did offer up heroines full of wile and quick thinking. What About the Heroine’s Journey? 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

They also have a daughter, Christine, known as Oreo, who is this novel’s heroine. Review: ‘Oreo,’ a Sandwich-Cookie of a Feminist Comic Novel 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

Alice “is very, very curious,” said Libby Rue, 13, who is making her TV debut as the heroine’s voice. ‘Alice’s Wonderland Bakery’: Recipes for Real Life, if Not Real Kitchens 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

Subsequent issues will spotlight other characters and will conclude with Anissa Pierce, one of Jefferson’s daughters, a heroine known as Thunder. Inside the ‘Other History’ of Comic Book Superheroes 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z

It's clear that Hill became, and remains, a heroine to many women. Anita Hill in spotlight again as new film opens 2014-03-21T20:38:06Z

Luisa Rey, the heroine of the next narrative, gets hold of only the half of Frobisher's narrative that we too possess, though later, like us, she gets possession of the letters that complete it. Guardian book club: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

Mr. Khanna played a villain who plots to marry the heroine, the granddaughter of a wealthy businessman. Vinod Khanna, Bollywood Movie Idol, Dies at 70 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

American heroines may express a longing for a vanished parent, but not the deep, complicated emotions of this reworking of “Beauty and the Beast.” For the Most Complex Heroines in Animation, Look to Japan 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

The title skews a speech from the Duchess of Malfi, and like her magnificent Websterian counterpart, Adès's heroine, at her low point, asserts: "I am Duchess still." Powder Her Face 2010-04-28T21:00:00Z

An ambitious heroine and a captivating tale are all the magic she needs. Review: ‘The Magician’s Lie’ by Greer Macallister is a spellbinding tale 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

If "And Just Like That" can't get that guy's goodbye smooch right, how can we trust our heroine's next chapter to the people responsible for mucking it up? Our big issue with "And Just Like That..." has nothing to do with the 911 debate 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

Rey, a rising heroine, has a minor-key melody that seems related to Williams’s Force motif—itself a cousin of Wagner’s Siegfried—while possessing its own airy, modal character. Listening to “Star Wars” 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

Later, she temporarily lost her powers; in finding herself again, she became the heroine Binary and eventually Warbird, while also struggling with alcoholism. Captain Marvel to Get New Comic Series Ahead of Big-Screen Debut 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

I’m thinking especially of Arthur Scott, the hard-to-like father of the Black heroine in “The Gilded Age.” Hitting the Right Notes When Setting History to Song 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

But in the range where Wagnerian heroines are made — above the stave — her tone could turn pinched and strained, her intonation a little wayward. Review: Heidi Melton Debuts With a Daunting Recital Program 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

In Paris our heroine cavorts with none other than Coco Chanel, along with a pack of French poodles. A Tip of the Hat to ‘Beach Blanket Babylon’ 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

But Julietta is the heroine of the film, because she does something even more extraordinary—she ultimately forgives the Count. The Film Where Eric Rohmer Let Desire Win 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

So we meet our bookish millennial heroine — a modern-day Elizabeth Bennet, if you will. Review | In ‘The Bookish Life of Nina Hill,’ Abbi Waxman introduces a modern-day Elizabeth Bennet 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

She has embraced stepping away from playing the heroine. "Xena" heroine dusts off sandals for "Spartacus" 2011-02-21T02:48:48Z

Sugar is both the endearing name and the enduring burden of the 10-year-old heroine of this novel by Jewell Parker Rhodes. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

These days, right, you're more likely to read about a heroine who's running a podcast or working at a digital news site. Laura Lippman on turning true crime into fiction: "Am I not appropriating somebody's story?" 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

Others, like “Dickinson” and to a lesser extent “The Great,” take a deliberately freewheeling approach to history, inventing counterfactual privileges and possibilities for their heroines. Catherine Was Great. But Was She a Girl Boss? 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z

The Coens’ version brandishes wide-open adventures, grizzled hearts on the sleeve and a young heroine who is by far the biggest pistol in a film full of them. Film: The Coen Brothers, Shooting Straight 2010-12-10T19:26:00Z

The two heroines of “The Spoilers” represent two generations of reporters, and two types of journalism. Books of The Times: ‘The Spoiler,’ by Annalena McAfee 2012-05-28T21:46:50Z

Ms. Hoffman stars as the plucky if insomniac Princess Winnifred, the heroine of “Once Upon a Mattress,” the 1959 Mary Rodgers musical based on the story “The Princess and the Pea.” Jackie Hoffman Kvetches Her Way to Royalty in ‘Once Upon a Mattress’ 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

However, a captivating book published today – International Women's Day – shows the past was alive with heroines who were not content with a supporting role. Where are all the daring women's heroines? 2011-03-08T10:57:47Z

Like “Romancing the Stone,” “The Lost City” opens with a scene from a book — cue the purple prose and dashing hero — that its novelist heroine is writing. ‘The Lost City’ Review: Raiders of the 1980s Blockbusters 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

In “Alien 3,” the heroine, Ripley, realizes that she will give birth to a monster. David Fincher, the Unhappiest Auteur 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z

Amid vomit gags and scrotum jokes, director Nicholas Stoller delivers feminist heroines whose fight to smoke pot in peace is about more than just that. How 'Neighbors 2' Became a Gross-Out Comedy With a Feminist Conscience 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

And if you were to be a Jane Austen heroine? Naomie Harris: 'I want to play Elizabeth Bennet' 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z

The film’s polio-battling heroine is a woman who continues her mission even though her niece and sister-in-law were gunned down in front of her while offering polio drops in Karachi. Commentary: 3 films you must see to understand Pakistan, its problems 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

The 17th-century Italian Baroque painter is not simply a rare example of a female artist from the period; she also highlighted women, mostly biblical heroines, in her pictures. Review | In the galleries: Building on an artwork expressed via different media 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

In the leading role of the Waltz and Elegy heroine, Lillian DiPiazza has a beauty and poignancy, but she lacks the technical assurance that yields true authority. Review: Pennsylvania Ballet’s ‘A Program of Firsts,’ a Tricky Triple Bill 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

"Have you ever thought," Terry writes, "how much we all, and women especially, owe to Shakespeare for his vindication of woman in his fearless, high-spirited, resolute and intelligent heroines?" Lynne Truss: rereading Four Lectures on Shakespeare by Ellen Terry 2012-07-27T21:55:01Z

Super fan Wilkes takes him home to nurse him back to health, but soon discovers the author has killed off her favourite romantic heroine in his new book - provoking an angry response. Bruce Willis joins Broadway's Misery 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Best known for legal thrillers featuring the wily women who work for an all-female law office in Philadelphia, Scottoline often makes mothers the heroines of her stand-alone works, and this holds true in “After Anna.” Review | Lisa Scottoline’s deliciously distracting thriller ‘After Anna’ 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

One sly way the film does this is by turning the heroine into a frog, and keeping her that way for most of the movie. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z

Intelligence matters to these heroines because they crave, above almost everything else, conversation, the kind that requires mutual understanding. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Which, of course, makes her an unlikely heroine for reality TV. Vivian Howard lives ‘A Chef’s Life,’ her attempt to show the real North Carolina

It’s either that or keep track of the consumptive heroine Marguerite Gautier’s multiple silent death rattles. Dance Review: Dreams of a Dying Courtesan 2011-06-05T22:09:55Z

So here’s to that rare creature, the teenage movie heroine. Girl Power: 10 Terrific Teen Heroines in Movies 2013-07-29T09:45:59Z

All three confided their true hearts to Juliet, writing to Shakespeare's fictional heroine seeking consolation, encouragement and friendship. 3 women honored in Italy for letters to Juliet 2011-02-13T17:21:08Z

In the last lines of Charlotte Brontë's novel, the heroine Lucy Snowe writes of her lover, Monsieur Paul, returning to her by sea from three years' enforced exile in the West Indies. Lynn Shepherd's top 10 fictional drownings 2013-03-06T10:30:18Z

The nine heroines ran the gamut of personality types. A Trailblazing Black Cartoonist’s Work: ‘It’s Unapologetic, and It’s the Truth’ 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

Flynn has long disputed “this idea that women are innately good, innately nurturing” and bemoaned “the spunky heroines, “soul-searching fashionistas” and “dismissably bad” tramps and vamps populating so much contemporary fiction. Perspective | Thank you, Gillian Flynn for giving women permission to be bad 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

Watching A Doll's House last week, I was struck by the visible artifice with which the immediate threat to the heroine, Nora, is allayed when her friend, Mrs Linde, offers to marry the blackmailing Krogstad. Henrik Ibsen: the demon inside A Doll's House 2012-07-16T15:08:37Z

This was an exception to the rule, because Leslie Knope has more to offer right now as an emotional-support heroine than she may have even at her funniest moments of the Obama era. "A Parks and Recreation Special": The COVID-era reunion we needed 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z

The novel’s heroine, Eve Fletcher, works at a senior center, has few friends and feels disoriented, unloved and unmoored after her son leaves for college. Tom Perrotta Returns to Familiar Turf: Sex, Schools and Suburbia 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

“She broke out of her chains,” Max sings of her titular, diamond-encrusted heroine, “Turned the fire into rain.” Romeo Santos and Justin Timberlake’s Team-Up, and 10 More New Songs 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z

Scheherazade, the young heroine, was a girl who looked Dominican, dark eyed, dark hair, olive skin. By the Book: Julia Alvarez 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

Brushing aside the mostly wan intervening attempts to resurrect Carpenter’s minimalist masterpiece, he has made a straight-up sequel, a rematch between heroine and villain. ‘Halloween’ Review: Babysitters (and Jamie Lee Curtis) Beware! 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

In her 1993 novel “Cleopatra’s Sister,” Ms. Lively looked at the unpredictable series of events that brought her heroine and hero together, explicating the connections between private dramas and great public events. Books of The Times: ?How It All Began,? by Penelope Lively 2012-01-23T22:28:10Z

We are invited to assume they will be our hero and heroine. Westworld recap: episode one – a rootin' tootin' welcome to a sordid sci-fi fantasy 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

To some degree autobiographical — the heroine, like her creator, lives in Sacramento — the movie is sharp, shrewd, funny and impeccably cast. Best Pictures, Maybe, but Telluride Is Not About Oscars 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

Slender, dark-haired Shapran, if sometimes lacking in technical finesse, is a very beguiling and pretty heroine, but the brittle choreography does her few favours. Coppélia – review 2013-07-13T23:05:57Z

Though the personalities of Ms. Boianjiu’s heroines blend together, her own voice is distinct. New Books by Shani Boianjiu, Michael Sears and More 2012-09-26T22:04:23Z

But who do you root for if your heroine simply can't be bested? Lucy: too much wham-bam and not enough ma'am 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

Or might it be a wildly postmodern, turning-convention-on-its-head rollercoaster ride with a kickass heroine, a wisecracking dude of a hero, and a crone who is scared of ageing, in place of the "wicked enchantress"? Tangled: ironically ever after 2011-01-14T15:00:18Z

Our villain is a Chicago drifter who can select his victims from different eras and disappear without a trace; our heroine the girl who gets away and then plots to hunt him down. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z

But it’s also a familiar response to the abuses the world inflicts on her and all women, making “Dietland” a work that invites the viewer to relate to its heroine as opposed to pitying her. Unpacking the violent desserts of AMC's "Dietland" 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z

Both are strongly plotted, with heroines who are vulnerable yet resilient. New novels by Jane Porter and Elizabeth Sims are steeped in sense of place 2010-08-04T23:12:00Z

We're told that Anastasia bites her bottom lip so often that it's impossible to visualise the heroine without calluses on her face. Fifty Shades of Grey is no one-handed erotic read for me but … 2012-05-29T11:17:33Z

Until fairly late in the process the heroine was called Pansy, and when Mitchell changed the name to Scarlett, thank goodness, she paid 50 cents an hour to have every page mentioning Pansy retyped. A Piece of ?Gone With the Wind? Isn?t Gone After All 2011-03-29T22:30:17Z

But she sounds as posh and funny as a Noel Coward heroine. Director Maria Aitken, keeping Coward’s blithe spirit alive

Chutzpah wins out for this conquering heroine, but we also feel the lingering sting of her doubt in a world where dominating women were always suspect. Review: In ‘Lempicka,’ Blond Ambition Is Set in a New Key 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

Wagers’s books follow Hail Bristol, an older female heroine who is the reluctant savior of the galaxy. Review | The weirdly specific mixtape Vol. 1: Space fantasy books to read 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Belle is a delightfully nerdy heroine who loves to read and doesn’t care what other people think of her. Ranking: The Disney Renaissance From Worst to Best 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

But Kurzak’s softly focused heroine was the kind of performer who transforms before an audience. Review: ‘Tosca’ Returns, Defined by Its Quiet Moments 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

The novel is less assured, less persuasive, when it turns toward its heroine. ‘Painted Horses,’ by Malcolm Brooks

Lust and fear and hormones course through the book, propelling Hunt’s heroines onward and inward. Samantha Hunt’s imagination runs wild in 'The Dark Dark' 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

Their newfound serenity is nothing compared with the almost cultish deification of their heroine. ‘Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It’: Really? We need to talk. 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

The heroine of Kevin Wilson’s fanciful second novel, “Perfect Little World,” meets her rescuer in the form of Dr. Preston Grind. In ‘Perfect Little World,’ a scientist hopes to create the ideal family 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

For a start, "you find yourself longing for a heroine with a bit more vim who will tell these people to shut up". Books review roundup: The Flamethrowers, Strictly Ann, and Money: The Unauthorised Biography 2013-06-14T15:00:11Z

Long before Katniss Everdeen was impressing her oppressors with her archery skills in “The Hunger Games,” another intrepid fictional heroine was demonstrating her prowess. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

What we said: A brutally realist movie – at least at first – that takes its heroine on a pilgrimage into the vast, trackless forest of national suffering. Best films of 2018 so far 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

Or even Isabel Allende’s “Maya’s Notebook,” in which a troubled heroine is redeemed not by living in America but by going home to Chile. ‘The Book of Unknown Americans,’ by Cristina Henríquez

Last month, DC Comics began publishing “The Legend of Wonder Woman,” a new digital series that explores that heroine’s earliest days and the gods who imbued her with power. ‘Prometheus Eternal,’ a Comic-Book Anthology in the Company of Masterpieces 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Infatuated with each other in ways that are not entirely predictable, they begin to affect the lives of others, including her invalid father, her frustrated boyfriend and the heroine's chatty fellow manicurists. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-05-18T20:00:54Z

So here's my second and final verdict on the movie: it's as captivating as its heroine — before she had her nose job. 'Tamara Drewe' review: Sex, Cows and Rock 'n Roll 2010-10-07T16:10:00Z

She adds to the air of hostility that keeps the heroine penned inside the house, increasingly convinced that she’s losing a grip on her sanity. Angela Lansbury’s Greatest Roles: A Streaming Guide 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z

The heroine of “Allegiance” has a brilliant son who works at the C.I.A. and has no idea that his mother is a Russian spy. Hope Davis Stars in ‘Allegiance’ on NBC 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Is that so bad? says it doesn't make her a freak; it makes her a heroine. Morning Glory's Rachel McAdams: When Perky Makes Perfect 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z

In my personal pantheon of opera heroines who should have shown more grit before succumbing to their inevitable deaths, I have long reserved special contempt for her. Review: The Desdemona in This ‘Otello’ Spits Fire 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

Emily is the heroine of "Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands," but she is not heroic. 'Close Your Eyes' looks at normal moments amid nuclear horrors 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

In books by women and for women, it should come as no surprise that heroines are the heroes of the action, finding themselves, their power and their future through love. March’s best romance: ‘Chase Me,’ The Deal’ and ‘It Started With a Scandal’ 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

I named my firstborn after the heroine of a movie based on a book I had not yet read. This was the year of not watching any Oscar bait ... but hey, at least "Eurovision" was fun 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

A Canadian novel, The Diviners by Margaret Laurence, in which the young heroine is in love with two men but rejects both in favour of adventure, inspired her to take off. Lennie Goodings: 'Virago survived because it's a brand with a philosophy' 2013-07-20T07:30:01Z

Yet it’s ultimately impossible to resist the gale theatrical force as Mr. Murfi presents his heroine through a multi-angled prism, with body language as precise, condensed and evocative as Morse code. Review: A One-Man Funeral With Many Lives in ‘I Hear You and Rejoice’ 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

And the point of the novels is the heroine’s wish for a normal relationship with a man where he talks to her, where they share responsibilities and the care of the children. Examining the Regrettably Modern Marriage of Leo Tolstoy and Sophia Tolstaya 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

It's a well-known song, needless to say, so the filmmakers decided to name the heroine "Mary" and allow the song to sell the film. ‘Proud Mary’ has a ‘Proud Mary’ Problem 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

When the play begins, our heroine is in the afterlife, recalling her time on earth. Review | Avant Bard recalls a French scientific genius 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z

Tarantino pulls off the trick with even greater aplomb in Inglourious Basterds, when the anachronistic use of David Bowie's 80s hit Cat People perfectly signals the intent of a wartime heroine. Soundtracks of my tears: how movie music sets a mood and sums up an era 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

With her big ambition, big balcon and suicidal tendencies, Anna Nicole Smith could scarcely be a more traditional opera heroine, could she? Anna Nicole: Kiss goodbye to those Viking hats 2011-02-14T22:00:00Z

Lazaridis and his directors realised that Puccini's operas are emotive precisely because the heroines are tormented by the abuse of power. Stefanos Lazaridis obituary 2010-05-16T17:48:00Z

Daisy, like all true heroines, comes to own her complexity. I Love Performing Those Songs. But What About the Gender Politics? 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

Who is your favorite fictional hero or heroine and who is your favorite villain or antihero? Elton John’s Bookshelves Are Meticulous. Just Ask Him. 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

She just needed to conjure up the appropriate hunk, er, man for Colleen O’Rourke, the Irish-American heroine of her sizzling new book, Waiting on You. Love Knows No Color: Interracial Romance Novels Find Growing Audience and Acceptance 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

Hollywood, too, has given us gun-toting heroines who look like they shop at Gap Kids in their time off. Noticed: The New Power of Petite Women 2010-06-25T21:44:00Z

She suffers, perhaps a little too beautifully, like a heroine of melodrama. Review: From Natalie Portman, Israel’s Birth Distilled in Mood and Memory 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

The history of the Georgian era isn't just about country houses and Jane Austen heroines. My best bit of historic Britain: historians' and authors' top tips 2012-08-17T21:45:07Z

The Guardian called Menke his “quiet heroine,” a key influence who would shape the director’s signature cinematic style. Another feminist victory for “Mad Max”: A woman kept “Fury Road” from being just another action movie 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

They often touched on scholarly topics — Etruscan archaeology, 19th-century Italian unification — and featured plucky heroines. Barbara Mertz, Egyptologist and Mystery Writer, Dies at 85 2013-08-14T03:34:38Z

“Stealing” is a chronicle of truth, and Kit is an unforgettable American heroine, the kind we yearn for as young readers and as adults. A Religious Boarding School That’s Actually Hell 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

Ms. Walker’s novel is presented as a series of letters, mostly written by its heroine, Celie, to God and to the beloved sister from whom she is separated. Review: ‘The Color Purple’ on Broadway, Stripped to Its Essence 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

If Harrower’s heroines never quite grasp power, they do at least glimpse the truth. Favorite Books of 2014 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Instead, “Asking for It” is all about the trauma: Its heroines have nothing in common but suffering and nothing on their minds but revenge. ‘Asking for It’ Review: A Few Rude Men 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

The models looked more Hitchcock heroine than modern woman, yet the quiet discipline showed Ms. Karan reaching a fashion state of grace. Special Report: Fashion: On the Straight and Narrow 2011-02-15T18:00:59Z

Here, the narrative rhymes, projections illustrate the action, and the heroine reveals herself as more funky than fragile. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

The rest of the book, set in an unlikely Aztec jungle, was mainly astonishing for repetitious misogyny, as the heroine, Eden, lusted brainlessly after her erstwhile boss, and half-mutated into a jaguar. Racism row novel Revealing Eden falls at every hurdle 2012-08-23T09:55:46Z

Intelligence, taste, conversation—these are the terms on which the heroines of novels by women again and again evaluate their love interests. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

How about that bookish heroines are the most endearing? Review | In ‘The Bookish Life of Nina Hill,’ Abbi Waxman introduces a modern-day Elizabeth Bennet 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

In another, also titled “That Girl,” the waterlogged heroine chokes on an off-brand Wonder Woman figurine with blond hair. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Sometimes the action involves a heroine and a villainess. In the fight between good and evil, even Batman must play by the rules 2012-08-23T19:30:00Z

"I'm having a hard time figuring out where I am," our heroine, dementia expert Dr. Juliana Smithton, says meekly at the end. Review: Metcalf sparkles in B'way's 'Other Place' 2013-01-11T02:08:09Z

Come to think of it, perhaps they should have named the heroine "America" and called the movie "America the Beautiful." ‘Proud Mary’ has a ‘Proud Mary’ Problem 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

The play’s anguished, childless heroine, Yerma, is slumped on a metal table. Yearning for a child in ‘Yerma,’ at Gala Hispanic Theatre 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

They are now being auctioned by a private owner and their contents will add weight to the Garbo myth, confirming her as the original model of a Nordic Noir heroine. ‘I go nowhere, I see no one’: Garbo letters reveal lonely life of film icon 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z

But while Mr. Lodato’s words certainly define her character precisely, there’s a bit of a problem in creating a solo musical with such a blinkered heroine at its center. Theater Review: In ‘Arlington,’ an Army Wife Fights a Lonely Battle 2014-03-03T03:00:01Z

Readers, especially female ones, were intrigued by my heroine and her would-be nemesis, Eve, the intelligence officer who starts tracking Villanelle and ends up obsessed by her. Killing Eve: how my psycho killer was brought to life 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

The underlying theme of Season 2 was guilt, and, in the end, our heroines turned themselves in to the police. “Big Little Lies” Season 2 Was a Metaphor for Power in Hollywood After #MeToo 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z

Novelists rarely depict mothers eager to leave their babies, and it’s a treat to see how lovingly, even joyfully, Woodson embraces her young heroine’s desires. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

While many of their more self-serving colleagues pursue ignoble agendas, network heroines in top positions are multitasking do-gooders trying to keep the nation safe. ‘Madam Secretary,’ ‘State of Affairs’ and Other Series Channel Hillary Rodham Clinton 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Collider credits them with “delivering some good zombie action before it was a commercial craze and for delivering one kickass action heroine”. Are there any good movies based on video games? 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

As a girl, its heroine, Nina, hid in a hole in the earth while three men murdered her father and brother. Peter Eotvos Prepares the Opera ‘Senza Sangue’ 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Swift sang a medley of songs from her twin pandemic albums “Folklore” and “Evermore” looking like a woodland heroine from a Maxfield Parrish print. Grammys 2021: Women Sweep Awards Shaped by Pandemic and Protest 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z

Assuming the throne in ankle-length cream chiffon with gold trim, our heroine attracts the attention of Hironao Takahashi's austere Caesar, melting his heart and loins with her bedroom eyes and sultry, snaky arabesque. Cleopatra; Henri Oguike Dance Company ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:20Z

But there was something a bit by-the-numbers in her performance that kept her Violetta from taking hold of our imagination as a living, suffering heroine. Hong tackles Decker's stark, modern 'Traviata' 2012-04-08T14:01:17Z

Even the show's most creative step, the twisted psyche of its heroine, lost some ground in season two. ArtsBeat: Homeland's Season Finale, With a Twist 2012-12-17T11:48:01Z

"I was in denial for about two seconds and cried for a minute," says the 53-year-old heroine. BBC Proms 2010-08-07T05:45:00Z

I think it's a more enjoyable movie with a female heroine and a female lead. A Minute With: Director Phillip Noyce on "Salt" 2010-07-29T16:13:00Z

Add a peacock feather fan or a pomegranate tapestry and you have the quintessential heroine of the Aesthetic Movement. Exhibition Review: At the Victoria & Albert, Muses Let Their Hair Down 2011-04-11T14:37:06Z

TIME: You decided to pursue the role of the villain Lucille instead of the heroine Edith when you were first presented with the script. Jessica Chastain on How Crimson Peak Will Change the Way We View Women in Movies 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

None of these authors talk down to their heroines, infantilize them or put someone else in control of their decision. 3 surprisingly sane books on abortion: When absolutely no women’s lives are ruined by one procedure 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z

Ms. Polley’s debut feature, “Away From Her,” was based on an Alice Munro short story, and Margot, with her mix of good sense and capriciousness, resembles some of Ms. Munro’s heroines. Movie Review: ‘Take This Waltz,’ Directed by Sarah Polley 2012-06-28T22:36:20Z

It took a monstrous villain to turn her into a heroine. Books of The Times: ‘The Shining Girls,’ a Novel by Lauren Beukes 2013-05-26T20:23:12Z

In Cynthia Ann's day, she was a heroine to some for surviving her captivity, to others merely a white savage. New book 'The Searchers' exposes roots of a legend 2013-02-19T17:37:09Z

The problem is that all her new traits are pretty saccharine, so she still reads as a traditional heroine, just with bits missing. Beauty and the Beast: feminist or fraud? 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Pal Hansen Professor Elizabeth Stone, the heroine of Grace McCleen's incandescent second novel, is a classic campus contradiction: both quite brilliant and utterly clueless. The Professor of Poetry by Grace McCleen – review 2013-07-28T07:30:00Z

She continued: “But the challenges faced by my heroine are different and don’t stop at one particular point.” A Star of Y.A. Imagines a Supernatural Ivy League in Her Debut for Adults 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

What is the heroine robbed of, and what is she given—both in the manner in which her story is told and within the story itself? Beauty and the Bestiality 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

And as in many of the romantic tragicomedies of long ago, “Isolde” forces its heroine to choose between the pragmatist and the fantasist, between reality and escape. Theater Review: Richard Maxwell’s ‘Isolde’ Explores Primal Instincts 2014-04-13T22:03:33Z

The musical’s heroine “lived horrible situations in her life,” the playwright said by e-mail from Buenos Aires. Music and poetry leaven a heavy subject 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Without ever falling into the clichés of spunky Bollywood heroine, she effortlessly embodies that admirable thing: a modern woman. Review: In ‘Badrinath Ki Dulhania,’ Boy Meets Girl (and Learns to Respect Her) 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

He finds such a woman in the heroine, Senta, who is obsessed by a portrait of the Dutchman hanging in her home. Met opera gets visionary new “Dutchman” 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

Dancing Swanilda, the 's flirty, feisty heroine, she gets to show off her unique and astonishing range – from snub-nosed ingenue to grand ballerina, with all shades of spinning virtuosity and cute mischief in between. Bolshoi: Copp?lia 2010-07-23T20:30:00Z

This 2018 play, about a woman’s obsession with the recipient of her dead husband’s heart, brims with poetry and oversize emotion, perhaps reflecting that the heroine is an opera singer. Review | GALA’s ‘Exquisita Agonia’ pours its heart out 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

For example, in “Little Red Riding Rabbit,” the annoying bobby-soxer of a heroine finds a note on her grandmother’s door that says Grandma is working the swing shift at Lockheed. DVD: On DVD, ?Essential Bugs Bunny Collection? 2010-10-08T22:10:00Z

Patsy Cline and Tammy Wynette: those are my heroines. Pixie Geldof: rocking 20s style 2013-02-16T09:00:00Z

Having discovered Rebecca's evil schemes, Maxim drives his wife, the heroine, back to Cornwall, through the night. John Mullan's 10 of the best: conflagrations 2012-06-29T21:55:01Z

She inspired Juliana, the heroine of “High Castle,” who has no trouble slashing a Nazi operative’s throat, as well as a number of shrill, carping, unhappy wives in other books. Anne R. Dick, Memoirist and Writer’s Muse, Is Dead at 90 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

So down a flight of stairs swept mostly black ensembles with the names of famous tragic heroines of literature like Medea, Juliet and Hecuba. 2010-01-28T17:53:00Z

Brave's heroine, who rebels against her family's plans for her to marry, is voiced by Kelly Macdonald, of Trainspotting and Boardwalk Empire fame. Pixar princess tops US box office 2012-06-25T08:33:11Z

Her heroine, Bair discovered, was a woman whose life was no less riddled with contradictions and difficult compromises than her own. Beckett, Beauvoir and a Biographer’s Bumpy Takeoff 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

I was immediately struck by it -- it was the first time I saw a heroine self-described as “poor, obscure, plain, and little” get so much airtime. Patricia Park talks about her Korean American spin on Jane Eyre 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

Only through interaction with someone as exceptional as herself can the heroine prove her own mettle and worth. Review | A look at the bad boys of 20th century romantic fiction 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

Of her dive into the dark web, Mandy convinces herself it’s “the opportunity to be, for once, the fearless, irresponsible heroine of the story of her own life.” Two Novels on the Complexities of Revisiting Past Loves 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

She left her core repertory — the Mozart heroines and four or five Verdi roles — only for Adriana Lecouvreur and Strauss’s Ariadne. Margaret Price Dies at 69, Soprano With Rich Voice 2011-02-01T06:51:50Z

Despite its perceptiveness about women and marriage today, the play as a whole suffers from the same self-cancelling vagueness as its heroine. Review: Money-Hungry Women Scheme for a Better Life in ‘Can You Forgive Her?’ 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

But Candace, the heroine of this 2018 debut novel, remains, part of a small group of healthy workers; when she’s not working, she posts her photographs of the eerily empty city under an online pseudonym. Pandemics in the Pages of ‘The Stand,’ ‘Severance’ and More 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

Anna, strong, resourceful, unsentimental, is the book's heroine, but the main character is Leningrad itself. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice - reviews 2011-07-15T21:55:06Z

This does nothing to dim their credibility or that of the heroine, first seen in a tutu. Review: In ‘Dear Mr. You,’ Mary-Louise Parker Writes to Men, With Lust and Rue 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

The fourth and final season, out now on DVD, sees our four-eyed heroine stymied in the love stakes but promoted at work. Your next box set: Ugly Betty 2011-04-08T07:00:02Z

But the more things change, as our heroine Holli notes, the more they float away. Superman: Forged by bullies! 2012-06-16T20:30:00Z

Anne is older and more mature than the heroines of those previous books. Review: In ‘Persuasion,’ How to Lose Lovers and Influence People 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

What propels the book forward is in part the sense of suspense that hangs over the nascent relationship: Has our heroine made an enormous mistake getting together with an itchy-footed boat lover? The Brexit Romance: Finding Love in Irreconcilable Times 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

The soprano Banlingyu Ban conveys the inner resilience of this tragic heroine through the bright tones and strong delivery of the vocal lines. ‘Butterfly’ and ‘Carmen,’ in Bold and Vivid Cuts 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

The heroine, Agatha, is missing one arm, but it’s what missing in the rest of the world – its cruelty of exclusion – that is so unsettling. Small and beautiful 2010-05-13T08:14:00Z

“In a culture of false idols, or at least loud and dangerous and hollow ones, Mock is a true and real heroine of our times,” Als said, in October, introducing her to the festival audience. “To Live in the World, and Not to Hide”: An Interview with Janet Mock 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

Chief among them is Viola, the shipwrecked, cross-dressing heroine who falls hard for her new boss, the Duke. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘Twelfth Night,’ at Hartford Stage 2013-05-31T23:50:19Z

No, their behavior isn’t — there’s that word again — nice, but the fun of Ms. Barrows’s work is that she allows her little heroines to be truly subversive, in Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer style. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 24-30 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

In this way the whole situation was projected from the heroine’s point of view; she never knew when Mrs. Danvers might turn up, and this, in itself, was terrifying. The Book That Gets Inside Alfred Hitchcock’s Mind 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

Looking at her target audience with an unsparing acuity, Meyers sketches a hard-edged portrait of a heroine of the times as well as a softball fantasy of the moment. “The Intern” Is a Very Strange Workplace Fantasy 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

After a decent enough opening it becomes a fairly ordinary affair, the principal attraction residing in the heroine's weirdly flexible sword. Reign of Assassins – review 2013-02-17T00:05:35Z

The heroine is an attractive woman who stumbles on a series of weird, inexplicable deaths. Joe Queenan's guide to horror film cliches 2010-10-22T11:00:00Z

Keeping the Tchaikovsky score, slightly remixed, they moved the story to New Year’s Eve in the present, with time travel to the 1980s and a mission to rekindle the love between the heroine’s parents. A Genre-Spanning Choreographer Who Says Yes to the Unknown 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

It became the first animated feature to get a best-picture nomination at the Oscars, and it enabled the whole concept of the Disney heroine to be broken open. How we made Beauty and the Beast 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

This is one of the really weird ones: intense, nonsensical, and featuring an incredibly unsympathetic — possibly psychopathic — heroine. In Praise of the ‘Career Romance’ 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Her starring role, as the unnamed “mother,” an earthy wife who doesn’t even leave the house, was a departure from the flinty, adventurous heroines that she is known for. Making ‘Mother!,’ the Year’s Most Divisive Film 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

It took a story that had been repetitive—both repeating itself and resonating, uninterestingly, with age-old tropes—and spun it forward, granting a moment of power to a new sort of heroine. Review: 'Battle of the Bastards' Is One of Game of Thrones' Best Episodes Ever 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

Restless, listless, sleepless and penniless, Sofia Papastergiadis, the heroine of Deborah Levy’s gorgeous new novel, “Hot Milk,” feels about as miserable and alarmed as it is possible to feel. Review: In ‘Hot Milk,’ by Deborah Levy, a Broken Life and a Frayed Maternal Bond 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

The music for “Swan Lake” tells us clearly when the Princess Mother enters in the first scene, and when the heroine Odette and the corps of swan maidens enter in the next one. The Bolshoi Ballet’s ‘Swan Lake’ at the Lincoln Center Festival 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

That puts the audience in the weird position of rooting for our determined heroine to be recognized as one of the deposed Romanovs — well, actually, we’re mostly supposed to ignore the reality of that. Perspective | If you’ve seen one princess fairy tale, you know what to expect with ‘Anastasia’ 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

On the surface that might not sound revolutionary, but Rachel is also a complex heroine — smart, assured, loving, and she already has her personal and professional life together. The new rom com fantasy: A happily-ever-after based on equality and humanity 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

“The Protégé,” — a lady-assassin movie whose heroine is as indestructible as the genre clichés surrounding her — might profit from the unexpected presence of Michael Keaton, but not by much. ‘The Protégé’ Review: Ladykiller 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

The gallery of characters allows Kushner a Chekhovian varnish: Rome’s Empty even reminds the others, in imitation of a Chekhov heroine, that it is important that they keep on working. Kushner’s ‘Guide’: Long, gabby and intelligent

There, the heroine of the piece was a green-skinned female alien named Gamora, who also had a romantic relationship with the white male hero. When it comes to interracial romances, the movies need to catch up 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Working with the terrific cinematographer Bradford Young, Ms. DuVernay fills her movie with long shots and meticulously framed images of casual beauty that reflect the quietly evolving inner life of her heroine. Critic?s Notebook: At Sundance, ?Beasts of the Southern Wild? Is Standout 2012-01-28T00:06:44Z

“Madam Secretary” has some good moments, but it would be better if its heroine were just a little bit worse. ‘Madam Secretary’ and ‘The Good Wife,’ TV’s Mighty Women 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Langdon professes the nonexistent discipline of "symbology" at Harvard, where Brown believes there are lectures on Saturday nights; the heroine is English but she addresses another female character, who is not the Queen, as "Ma'am". Inferno by Dan Brown – review 2013-05-19T07:00:02Z

There are other respects, however, in which this staging now helps its heroine. Dance Review: Under an Enchantment and Catching Z?s for a Century, but With Both Eyes Open 2011-07-06T22:11:45Z

When the heroine, Princess Aurora, first appears, she has — as this YouTube clip of a 2015 performance shows — the biggest buildup in ballet. How ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Tells Its Story Through Ballet 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

Twenty years ago the heroines of “Absolutely Fabulous” were wacky heralds of a new age of extravagance. Television Review: ?Absolutely Fabulous? 20th Anniversary Specials - Review 2012-01-05T22:43:52Z

“Victoria” follows, in broad fashion, historical events, but its primary interest is in presenting its heroine as doe-eyed, headstrong and romantic, in contrast to her traditionally stodgy image. Review: Thoroughly Modern ‘Victoria,’ Still Nursing That Crush 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

The passage of five years has only slightly brightened the future for Ms. Thurber’s heroine in “Ashville.” Theater Review: Thurber’s ‘Hill Town Plays’ Are Produced by Rattlestick 2013-09-06T02:00:01Z

A cross between Beckett and William Gibson, it follows its globetrotting heroine through a series of anonymous hotel rooms around the world, a rocking chair strapped to her back. Athina Rachel Tsangari Directs ?Attenberg? 2012-03-02T19:13:03Z

Mr. Little and Mr. Vavrek maintain that focus, and in Lauren Worsham, a preternaturally girlish soprano, they have a self-possessed heroine who maintains dignity and charisma in spite of harrowing conditions. Music Review: ‘Dog Days,’ New Opera, at Peak Performances in Montclair 2012-10-03T20:58:42Z

With Casey, King has created an irresistible heroine — equally vulnerable and tenacious — and we’re immediately invested in her search for comfort, for love, for success: a triple prize that seems entirely impossible. Review | Lily King’s ‘Writers & Lovers’ delivers pure joy 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

Most of these shows focus on career women who struggle to be both breadwinner and homemaker, and they don’t indulge regressive fantasies about rich, dashing tycoons who yearn to make the heroine’s life easier. Critic?s Notebook: ?Fifty Shades of Grey?: S-and-M Cinderella 2012-04-02T21:58:46Z

She is a target for conservative ire and a heroine to some Pakistani liberals. Pakistani model's nude photo causes fury 2011-12-03T14:47:10Z

There is also TransCat, an independently published humor comic about a transgender heroine. In a New Comic, a Transgender Superhero Hides 2 Identities 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

There was also no denying the startling, high-voltage appeal of Mr. Fierstein, whom I first saw as a teenager Off Off Broadway, when he was playing the heroine of a raunchy romp called “Flatbush Tosca.” ArtsBeat: A Flickering 'Torch Song Trilogy' in London 2012-06-13T15:21:13Z

But the heroine is Wiener-Dog, a real dachshund, who travels from owner to owner, spreading joy. Summer Movie Release Schedule 2016 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Heroes and heroines are boring and forgettable, villains are much more interesting. Ayaan Hirsi Ali: By the Book 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

In Joe Wright’s version of “Anna Karenina,” the heroine is a wild bird in a gilded, highly stylized cage, a modern spirit imprisoned by archaic custom. The Carpetbagger: Box Office Heroines 2012-12-07T15:00:34Z

The child heroine, here called Marie, runs to retrieve her Nutcracker doll and falls asleep with it in her arms. Critic’s Notebook: Inspired by Tchaikovsky in New York and London 2013-12-18T22:50:55Z

It features a neurosurgeon heroine and a chef with rough beginnings, which I find thoroughly delightful. What to read this summer? Ten authors weigh in with their picks. 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

His mother, Ruth, was a pilot whose heroine was Amelia Earhart. Inside Art: A Warhol Is Said to Be Bought by a Walton 2013-12-05T21:27:16Z

Mr. Guilfoile’s heroine, Canada Gold — or Nada, as she is known — is the girl with a digital brain. Books of The Times: Safety in Numbers? Not for This Heroine 2010-08-26T22:32:00Z

At the end, the hero and heroine come back onstage on a motorcycle. Dance Review: A ?Napoli? Changed, Yet Unchanging 2011-06-13T22:41:38Z

Last fall, she channeled that Puccini heroine for the Lyric Opera Baltimore. `An opera singer discovers her ‘subtle voice’ 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Throughout the books the heroine, Bella, is aware of the fact that her vampire lover can hardly control the violence that is an inextricable part of his desire for her. Why is there so much movie violence against women? 2010-06-03T21:45:00Z

Ms. Biller’s movie, like its heroine, presents a fascinating, perfectly composed, brightly colored surface. Review: ‘The Love Witch,’ Hell-Bent on Capturing Your Heart 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Puppets are well suited to Alice in Wonderland, with its double-worldiness and its heroine who feels not in control of herself. My Dad's a Birdman; Beauty and the Beast; Les parents terribles; Alice in Wonderland 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

And in the best romances, heroines are survivors — eager for their happily-ever-after but willing and able to stand alone as they wait for their perfect match. March’s best romance: ‘Chase Me,’ The Deal’ and ‘It Started With a Scandal’ 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Bowen’s “Cinderella Moon,” shot in China with a cast of mostly unknowns, turns the orphan, Mei Mei, into a heroine who not only achieves equality for girls but also literally saves the world. New York International Children?s Film Festival 2012 2012-03-01T23:48:26Z

The heroine of “Just Wright,” a formulaic sports romance with the texture of a strawberry smoothie, isn’t just any old Hollywood Cinderella in search of Prince Charming. | 'Just Wright': Queen Latifah Meets Her Prince 2010-05-13T21:09:00Z

On Wednesday afternoon, Cassandra Trenary, making her New York debut as the ballet’s heroine, Princess Aurora, sailed blithely through the role’s challenges as if borne on a spring breeze. Review: A ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Revival Rich in Details and Rewards 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

The heroine chooses another way entirely, one that turns out to be profoundly heartbreaking, astonishing and gorgeous, and not at all where we suspected she would take us in the first place. "I May Destroy You" ends with a revolutionary "ego death" because the other options would be a lie 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

An acclaimed production of I Puritani for the Met in 1976 brought a Van Dyck gallery to life – the heroine in chilly blue, the cavaliers in slashed sleeves and lace collars. Peter J Hall obituary 2010-06-24T18:00:00Z

But they do set up a feminist theme: the heroine’s struggle to free herself from the bondage of her wretched uncle and the male-dominated state. ‘Red Sparrow’ Review: Flightless Bird 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

To live, the bright, resourceful heroines of Butler’s fiction must shape-shift to fit into various societies. Prince, Cecil Taylor, and Beyoncé’s Shape-Shifting Black Body 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

Crucially, this isn’t a rescue arc, where the famous actor with all the money swoops in to save the heroine from her worries. Three New Cinderella-Inspired Romance Novels 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

The journalist heroine of Quinn’s novel is both headstrong and ambitious. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Advertisement PG: And so are the heroines in your novels, searching for a safe home in the world. Alice Walker and Colm Toibin, and Their Trail of Words 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z

“See me,” says its unnamed heroine, fully and unflinchingly embodied by the brilliant Magdalena Cielecka. ‘4:48 Psychosis,’ a Polish Adaptation of Sarah Kane’s Play 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

Their story “Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley,” rehabilitates Mary, the nerdiest, least marriageable Bennet sister, as a romantic heroine in her own right. The 99-Seat Beat: Holiday theater to get you in the spirit, from Jane Austen to Chico's Angels 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

Here our heroine shows her true feminine soul, in a bejeweled chiffon evening dress with spaghetti strapped V-neckline and ballerina skirt, or a transparent embroidered peasant blouse with matching shimmery silver silk skirt. Summertime looks spill onto winter runway 2012-02-26T21:54:14Z

Slate dithers and messes up with amusing abandon as “Obvious Child’s” heroine, a mouthy stand-up comedian. Critic’s Notebook: The sisters of summer

Written from the hero’s rather than the heroine’s point of view, this 700-plus-page tome is a bad romance novel, driven by a preposterous, melodramatic plot and filled with some truly cringe-making prose. Books of The Times: Mark Helprin’s ‘In Sunlight and in Shadow’ 2012-10-05T05:17:21Z

In her journey toward adapting “Little Red Riding Hood,” Candy is of course herself an imperilled heroine treading through the woods. The Best Part of “The Deuce” Is Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Emerging Auteur 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Like “Weeds” or “Nurse Jackie,” other shows whose leads walked the line between heroine and anti, it’s an adrenalized mix of genres — a lot of laughs, thrills and consequences. On ‘Good Girls,’ They’re the Criminal Moms Next Door 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

In Chee’s telling, the writer’s life always lurks just beyond the page, and not only in the way that Gustave Flaubert was Madame Bovary or Henry James the prepubescent heroine of “What Maisie Knew.” Writing as Drag: Alexander Chee’s Essays Consider the Novelist’s Craft 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

In “Annie,” the heroines, after a period of anguished separation, appear destined to be reunited. Nancy Garden Dies at 76; Wrote Young-Adult Novel of Lesbians 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

One of her child heroines is Laura Dekker, the 13-year-old Dutch girl whose plans to sail the world singlehandedly were resisted by the Dutch courts, until she eventually got her way. Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape by Jay Griffiths – review 2013-04-19T09:00:01Z

The novels seem quaint today; but, back then, their merger of filth and feminism drew legions of fans to a woman who lived like her heroines: apologizing for nothing and beholden to none. ‘Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story’ Review: She Did It Her Way 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z

"Her heroine Joanne Kilbourn is a widow, a political analyst, and a university professor, and many of the plots include references to local art or politics in Regina." Readers' favorite international mysteries, Part II ? all around the globe 2010-12-29T22:49:04Z

Tell me about the heroine of your novel, this fun-loving, romantic, teenage girl named Diana Spencer. Why the monarchy needed Diana: "She had to be a front-rank aristocrat, and she had to be a virgin" 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z

It should be noted the song was released in April 1979, before the titular heroine was elected, though it became an indie hit a year later. Five songs about Margaret Thatcher 2013-04-08T13:36:00Z

And, of course, looking at and listening to Ms. Parsons, who uses her voice as a lethal weapon and manages to turn Woman into something approaching a Tennessee Williams heroine. Theater Review: ‘AdA,’ Plays by Neil LaBute and Marco Calvani at La MaMa 2012-10-05T22:24:29Z

The novel, titled “Go Set a Watchman,” was completed in the mid-1950s, and takes place when Scout Finch, the heroine of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” is grown up and looking back on her childhood. Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Is to Publish a Second Novel 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Ms. Gerwig’s tender, thrilling movie about an adolescent girl has plenty of drama: Our heroine throws herself from a car. The Best Movies of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

Much of it depends on what the show chooses to do with its heroine's deserved fury and what the writers choose to sacrifice to it, for better or worse. "The Handmaid's Tale" furious finale could turn the show around – and it's all in the execution 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

Those early styles soon spawned successors that conjure Cathy on the moors and a slew of Willa Cather frontier heroines. As Days Grow Longer, So Do Hems 2011-04-07T01:02:33Z

The heroine of “Amélie,” the new musical at the Walter Kerr Theatre, is a dreamy Parisian café waitress who channels her childlike wonder into staging anonymous good deeds on the streets of Montmartre. “Amélie” Arrives on Broadway 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

The actress was 14 when Disney tapped her to star in “Moana,” voicing the animated musical’s titular island heroine. Auli’i Cravalho on Her New Netflix Drama and the Smell of Wet Dog 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

With Melia, Bayard skillfully draws a heroine whom readers understand better than she understands herself, without making her aggravatingly obtuse; he then allows her to develop over the course of a book. There’s a glut of bunnies and dead moms in children’s books 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

Molly Gray, the eccentric heroine of this endearing locked-room mystery, loves her job cleaning rooms at the Regency Grand Hotel — until the police suspect her of murdering one of the nastier guests. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

Distant and somewhat cool in the comics, the TV drama’s writers made her a vital, dangerous and devoted heroine. “The Walking Dead” and “Game of Thrones”: When is it time to abandon the source? 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

Selick worried that after directing “Coraline,” making another humorously frightful fable centered on a young heroine would seem as if he were repeating himself. When Henry Selick and Jordan Peele Team Up, Things Get Wild 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

In "The Kid", Precious, the heroine which launched actress Gabourey Sidibe's career with an Oscar nomination, is killed off at the outset. Sapphire's "The Kid" won't get Hollywood treatment 2011-07-14T13:08:04Z

That scene is a pivotal moment for the heroine, Minnie, as she gambles her lover’s life on a game of poker with the town sheriff. Review: Puccini’s American Opera Needs a New American Vision 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

This time, the titular heroine is not thrown into an all-white office of media jackals. Jane the Virgin: soapy, smart and sexy 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

In her novel “Swallowing Geography,” the heroine thinks: “It is possible that classic rules of form and structure do not fit this experience of existing and not existing at the same time.” In Deborah Levy’s Latest, a Student of History Learns to Confront His Own 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Her heroines are almost always smart, self-deprecating underdogs who haven’t been “seen” by the world. Review | Jennifer Weiner understands women. Her new novel, ‘That Summer,’ shows us why. 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

Yet she said Tatiana has proved an acting challenge because she finds the heroine behaving very differently from the way a woman would in today’s world. Russian Diva to Open Third Met Season in a Row 2013-09-16T14:39:33Z

The first time that the heroine in the disarming comedy “Hello, My Name Is Doris” sees the kid, they’re in a crowded office elevator. Review: ‘Hello, My Name Is Doris,’ About an Older Woman’s Love for a Much Younger Man 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

There’s a little rancor in her voice, and shyness, too: like many a Miller heroine, she loves her guy because of his various complications but she’s a little afraid of him, too. The Heaviness of Memory in Arthur Miller’s “The Price” 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

The novel’s heroine, Ada, flees a patriarchal society that values women solely for fertility, joining a gang of nonbinary outlaws who follow a charismatic, gender nonconforming leader called “the Kid.” With a Chinese American Gunslinger, He’s Challenging the Whiteness of Westerns 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z

In "Will be Snaring Meteorites — And Be Devoid of Rivals," the Converse-wearing heroine, accompanied by her collection of little whiffle-ball meteorites, strikes a confident, even victorious, stance like some 19th-century mountain climber. Review: An engaging show of 'Meteorites' at Winston-W?chter 2010-12-16T21:53:12Z

More recently, he played Heidi’s grandfather in a 2015 Swiss film about the national heroine, seeing it as a kind of patriotic duty. Swiss actor Bruno Ganz who played Hitler in 'Downfall' dies aged 77 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z

Because in the updated story, penned by new "Wonder Woman" writer J. Michael Straczynski, our heroine wakes up confused and uncertain of her identity, haunted by enemies unknown, DiDio explained in an interview. Wonder Woman's new duds spark interdimensional ire 2010-07-02T21:13:00Z

Eden According to Eve Jewish Women’s Theatre reimagines the stories of Old Testament heroines and villainesses. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Dec. 17-24: 'A Christmas Carol' and more 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z

In the midst of what would now be described as a quarter-life crisis, the distressed heroine, Patricia, even regularly goes to the gym after her high-stress job writing fashion advertising copy for a department store. She Wrote Frankly About Divorce, and Suffered the Consequences 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z

During the scene where the heroine, reflexively overlooked, watches a man be congratulated for her sublimely innovative achievement, I put my head in my hands. Women’s Voices Festival a Potent Reminder of Who Goes Unheard Onstage 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

But there is a crisis of contemporaneity at the heart of this pretty adaptation, and the trouble begins with its presentation of its heroine. ‘Persuasion’ Review: The Present Intrudes Into the Past 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

Ms. Mirren, sipping her fortified latte, said that she took inspiration for her portrayal of Victoria not from, say, some old James Bond heroine but from a far unlikelier figure. film: Now Queen of the Firing Range 2010-10-08T20:59:00Z

The novel's heroine is Phoebe, a list-making, lower-class woman haunted by her own shadowy figures as she tries to help her boyfriend Sam discover what happened to his little sister Lisa 15 years ago. New in sci fi, fantasy and horror: titles by Joan Aiken, Jennifer McMahon and Tin House 2011-08-20T18:05:54Z

At first she tried to make an older, wiser Isadora the heroine. Erica Jong’s ‘Fear of Dying’ Defies the Sunset of Sex 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

Both James McArdle as the gangling tutor, caught in a sexual tug-of-war, and Jonathan Coy as Natalya's husband, who grasps the wrong end of every stick, are equally infected by the heroine's hysteria. A Month in the Country 2010-10-01T20:29:00Z

Then she was a rock heroine who toured with the Rolling Stones and served as the Who’s Acid Queen. Tina Turner’s 11 Essential Songs 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

Even premium television, with its penchant for the dark side, gives most of its heroines flaws that are transgressive but also forgivable. Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Prime Time’s Other Women in Power 2014-05-02T12:00:01Z

Goddard’s a true American heroine who’s been overlooked. Q&A: Foraging for Forgotten History Around Washington 2013-07-02T21:46:38Z

A true American heroine in every way imaginable. Harriet Tubman’s Path to Freedom 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

On Thursday, Times TV critic Alessandra Stanley wrote an essay about how the prolific TV creator is breaking the current mold of TV heroines and subverting stereotypes in the process. Shonda Rhimes responds to 'angry black woman' New York Times piece 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

Why don’t black women win Oscars for playing complex heroines or crotchety geniuses like their white male counterparts? Bamboozled: Spike Lee's masterpiece on race in America is as relevant as ever 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Interview with Felicity Jones, heroine of 'Rogue One’ Dermot Mulroney's role in 'Rogue One': playing cello on the soundtrack 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

Like so many television heroes and heroines, Carrie is a maverick and a rule breaker. The TV Watch: Shock but No Awe in ‘Homeland’ Season’s End 2013-12-16T23:02:44Z

So are we seeing the rise of a new kind of heroine? Princess Moana, the Rogue One rebel, the Eagle Huntress: meet film’s female heroes 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

But as befits a heroine these days, she may not be swept off her feet so easily. 'Cinderella' trailer: Lily James isn't so quick to swoon 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

But she’s as riveting as the heroine of a 1940s film noir: her luster, her urgency and her enigma exert equal force. Dance: An Illuminating Swan, Then a Pure-Dance End 2010-02-17T23:34:00Z

The heroine of this beautifully lyrical crime novel is a troubled Army veteran who finds herself serving as the sheriff of a small Southern town. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

There is something of Kneehigh's The Red Shoes about the heroine's determination to achieve her desires and claw her way to love. New Edinburgh act of the day: The Wrong Crowd 2011-08-19T15:51:53Z

Seeing that black trans girl on the streets of Honolulu, trying to make a way out of no way, I had to treat her—myself—as the heroine of the story. “To Live in the World, and Not to Hide”: An Interview with Janet Mock 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

This is what real television can mean to real people, and it's precisely why Oprah is a gay heroine to me. Oprah can still bring this gay man to tears 2011-01-26T21:30:00Z

If she entered a room in which the heroine was, what happened is that the girl suddenly heard a sound and there was the ever-present Mrs. Danvers, standing perfectly still by her side. The Book That Gets Inside Alfred Hitchcock’s Mind 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

At least their heroines don’t die, although some of the hottest guys who they fall in love with happen to be widowers. It’s not just “Rudolph”: Holiday TV specials are mostly creepy, weird or depressing as hell 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

She was also witty, gregarious and stylish: a natural cinematic heroine. Hollywood’s Forgotten Heroes: Female War Correspondents 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Alice also appears, older and silver-haired, under the name Lady Fairchild, in Moore and Gebbie's controversial narrative about three heroines from children's literature, each grown up and recalling her own erotic awakening. Will Brooker's top 10 comic book-classic mashups 2012-07-11T13:42:02Z

Lula, the heroine of “My New American Life,” Ms. Prose’s diverting but clichéd new novel, also wants to change her life. Books of The Times: She?s Making Friends in a New Place 2011-04-21T22:41:45Z

But I’d wager most viewers simply see the heroine of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Moss’ June, muzzled and subjugated at the feet of the great liberator. Weaponized white feminism in "The Handmaid's Tale" and "When They See Us" 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

It tells us something about each of them, but there's nothing that the musical women have in common – they can be heroines, anti-heroines, dependant orphans, or spoilt rich young women. Dangerous attractions and revolutionary sympathies: 5 Jane Austen facts revealed by music 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z

It’s also a description of Tris, the heroine of Veronica Roth’s hugely successful “Divergent” book series and movie franchise. How the Disney princess became “one of the guys” 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

Like Hepburn’s character, Gudenkauf’s heroine, Amelia Winn, is physically challenged: a near fatal encounter with a hit-and-run driver destroyed the tiny bones and neural pathways of her inner ear and rendered her profoundly deaf. ‘Not a Sound’: A thriller worth staying up all night to finish 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

She is a directionless heroine and her rescuer is an older man. Why I'd like to be … Scarlett Johansson in Lost in Translation 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

“Broad City” ended on Thursday night in exactly the way one hoped it would: with its two heroines dragging a toilet across the Brooklyn Bridge. The “Broad City” Finale: Abbi and Ilana’s Conscious Uncoupling 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z

By that stage, in any case, our heroine had moved on. Life’s a beach party for Lindsay Lohan, reality TV’s queen of the cabanas 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

A homicidal heavy shows up on the heroine's doorstep, hiding among carolers with a shotgun in hand. At long last, "The Long Kiss Goodnight" is getting the holiday affection it deserves 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z

For the play’s cross-dressing heroine, Rosalind, he chose his daughter, Rebecca Hall, whom he had triumphantly introduced to the West End with his 2002 production of Shaw’s “Mrs. Warren’s Profession.” 5 Shows That Sealed Peter Hall’s Stage Legacy 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

These details are prelude to announcing that the unnamed heroine of Nunez’s dry, allusive and charming new novel, “The Friend,” is a writer and a cat person. Mourning With the Help of a Great Dane 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

Expelled from the confines of her bedroom and the enervating control of her parents, she emerges as a classic Hannah heroine girded for the harrowing adventures ahead. Review | ‘The Four Winds’ is Kristin Hannah’s next inevitable bestseller. Don’t forget the tissues. 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

Subtly, unmistakably a beautiful lineage is suggested in these echoes of the great heroines of American literature — so many tomboys, so many queer women. ‘Mostly Dead Things,’ a Story of Taxidermy, Love and Grief, With Echoes of Past Literary Heroines 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

She seemed to have more important things to worry about — and also, to bring it back to Leatherstocking and his kind, to be a fundamentally solitary kind of heroine. Arts & Leisure: Katniss Everdeen, a New Type of Woman Warrior 2012-04-04T12:00:00Z

Produced by Teatro SEA, the Latino theater for children, this bilingual adaptation has a heroine who is not only a beleaguered scullery maid but also the kingdom’s best tango dancer. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

The book veers between funny and enraged, with tangents on libertarian heroine Ayn Rand and legendary comics artist Jack Kirby. Hating the Internet is easy: “You could’t run a commercial on television calling for armed insurrection” 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

And the heroine of Our Town, too, living in a world where the sun's gone down. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2011-03-17T22:59:01Z

And, conversely, it’s just as hard to find a truly unpleasant heroine of a network drama or sitcom. | 'Body of Proof': Feisty Types? Try Looking in the Morgue 2011-03-28T23:02:39Z

In Act I the eight friends of the heroine, Princess Aurora — though they would profit from more dynamic variety and from better patterning within the stage space — also showed the same effortless clarity. Dance Review: Under an Enchantment and Catching Z?s for a Century, but With Both Eyes Open 2011-07-06T22:11:45Z

It’s a justifiably beloved performance, by turns snarky, spiky, silly, and sympathetic, as our heroine jots down every stray thought on her journey to quitting smoking, losing a few pounds and finding true love. Stream These 13 Titles Before They Leave Netflix in October 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

She switched focus: a year off, then smaller, odder films with more difficult heroines – The Edge of Love, Never Let Me Go, A Dangerous Method. Keira Knightley: 'I can’t act the flirt or mother to get my voice heard. It makes me feel sick' 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

Given this particular movie, she presumably also lectures on “Cyrano de Bergerac” and topics like the dissimulating heroine. ‘Who You Think I Am’ Review: A Woman of Feeling, in Bed and Out 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

"Amazingly, we were filming in the Midlands where all the swine flu was happening," says actress Julie Graham, who plays the heroine Abby Grant. 2010-01-11T09:12:00Z

She’s the kind of writer the heroine of “The Friend” laments doesn’t exist anymore — one who views writing as a sacred calling rather than an exercise in self-promotion and branding. With ‘The Friend,’ Sigrid Nunez Becomes an Overnight Literary Sensation, 23 Years and Eight Books Later 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

There's really no room for Elizabeth Bennet to be anything other than a feminist heroine, having such a pert wit and lovely eyes, commanding our affections the way she does. Pride and Prejudice at 200: looking afresh at Austen's classic 2013-01-26T08:01:00Z

Which may well have you salivating at the prospect of Ms. Ireland taking on that ultimate damaged heroine of American theater. Review: Marin Ireland Brings Down the Halfway House in ‘Blue Ridge’ 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

Remember, since 9/11 we’ve heard talk about the ordinary heroes and heroines, firefighters, paramedics and ordinary people coming through. Our most dangerous hike 2012-05-21T01:00:00Z

By the end of “The Kitchen,” its trigger-happy heroines don’t look liberated as much as co-opted by an American death cult as deeply rooted in male insecurity and aggression as it is in racial animus. In the battle against toxic masculinity on screen, is revenge our only option? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Recommended for teens rather than younger children, the titular heroine is a feisty investigator of crime in early 1900s Paris who finds herself tangled up in literally extraordinary events. Sharon Gosling's top 10 children's steampunk books 2013-02-28T11:19:24Z

The novel begins when its heroine, Clare, travels to Havana for a Latin American film festival. Review | The fantastic world of Laura van den Berg 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

These women who talk with a broad “ah” and curse a lot are working-class heroines, striving to better themselves — despite smothering families, loser boyfriends and dead-end jobs. The TV Watch: The Wahlberg Family Business Grows With ‘Breaking Boston’ 2014-03-12T21:09:49Z

Yet, even as “Plaza Catedral” invites us to sympathize with its heroine, it also immediately pinpoints Alicia’s place in Panama’s class hierarchy and her insular mind-set. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

The new drama “Carmen” is not based on the famous opera and tells an original story, but its heroine calls her community toward earthly delights nonetheless. ‘Carmen’ Review: You Will Live in Bliss 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

You won't find a wittier, drier, more intellectual or more slovenly heroine than Atalanta, nor a more sympathetic foil than her friend Pansy. Teen book club: Lydia Syson's top 10 historical novels 2012-11-29T16:39:14Z

He described the brilliant violinist Leila Josefowicz, for whom he wrote this work in a commission from the Philharmonic, as the embodiment of his heroine as a fearless and empowered artist. Review: John Adams Unveils ‘Scheherazade.2,’ an Answer to Male Brutality 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Or to hit shows like “Homeland,” whose heroine would be apt to think twice before baring her shoulders in a crowded Beirut market. Something in a Sleeve for Spring 2012-10-16T23:07:03Z

This subversive act, inspired by a dream, fractures the family life of the heroine, Yeong-hye. Dendrophilia 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

Then there is the story line that gives the film its name: “The Big Sick’s” heroine is in a coma. How ‘The Big Sick’ makes arranged marriages, Muslim families and a coma perfect rom-com material 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

The heroine: A tough call, because not much differentiates them. ‘Deception’ and ‘Instinct,’ the Latest Shows Trying to Be ‘Castle’ 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

That dare inspired an army of female heroines, who mostly stayed on paper in 2D, or scampered around the margins of major male characters’ movies. Goddesses of the galaxy: women directors take over the blockbuster universe 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

O’Connor, an actress who’s played her share of period heroines, starred in the 1999 adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Mansfield Park,” a film that — like this one — takes a frisky approach to its source material. ‘Emily’ Review: A Brontë Sister’s Savage, Hardy and Free Life 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z

The creative team, dominated by women, turn the ballet into the heroine Blanche’s story. Essential Arts & Culture: Sneak peek of the new Marciano, Obama's library, Tennessee Williams in dance 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

Here, clichés like the oppressive house, controlling employer and vulnerable heroine prove far more complex than they appear, having been skillfully reimagined for this anguished, haunted story. A Sundance With Brains and Guts, Disemboweled and Otherwise 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

Her great vocal heroes and heroines of the 18th and 19th centuries were more fortunate. Ceclia Bartoli: the limitations of being a mezzo 2010-12-23T22:00:04Z

Bourgeois-Tacquet doesn’t hurry the answers but instead fills the movie with moments of everyday life that, by turns, sync with and slow her heroine’s pace. ‘Anaïs in Love’ Review: Portrait of a Woman on the Run 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

I still believe in the imagined reality of Charlotte Brontë's heroine. The most offensive novelty books yet 2010-10-26T11:30:00Z

But her conceit — that the Trojan War’s women are underexamined heroines — is mildly perplexing. Stories of War and Its Aftermath, From Ancient Greece to America in ‘2034’ 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

Snow White is a much more can-do kind of princess than the passive heroine of yore, and this Prince Charming is quite a bit less masterful. Arts & Leisure: ?Mirror Mirror,? ?Grimm? and Hollywood Love for Fairy Tales 2012-03-21T12:00:11Z

Faris goes through the rom-com heroine motions: getting drunk in public, falling off high heels, stuffing a hot dog in her mouth. Movie review of What's Your Number starring Anna Faris 2011-09-28T11:05:00Z

Whether jokey or more serious, however, Ibbotson's readers are always guaranteed a magical tale and the reassurance that, ultimately, the young hero or heroine will triumph and the baddies receive their comeuppance. Eva Ibbotson: Ogres, aunts and happy endings 2010-10-06T11:57:00Z

The first Modesty Blaise strip by told of how the heroine was approached by British intelligence to help break an organisation known as La Machine. Women spies 2010-07-07T12:09:00Z

Elizabeth has a complicated history and needs, much like a Jane Austen heroine, to marry to ensure her future. Movie Review: ‘Belle’ Centers On a Biracial Aristocrat in the 18th Century 2014-05-01T22:04:13Z

Now he’s back to the daily grind - to cloud cars and giant childrens’ toys and heroines fallen ill with lilies in their lungs. The 100 key films of 2013 - part 7 2013-01-01T08:00:02Z

Both are impetuous screwball heroines who could have been created only by women. Movie Review: ‘Ruby Sparks,’ Written by and Starring Zoe Kazan 2012-07-24T21:46:52Z

“I wanted my heroine to be, like me, a woman in exile,” she said. A Finale True to Festival's Theme: Loss 2010-05-24T12:30:00Z

They remind you that today a hero — or heroine — can still come riding to the rescue. Spare Times for Children for April 19-25 2013-04-18T22:11:56Z

The heroine of “The Paris Wife” is Hadley Richardson, the athletic, sturdily built, admittedly unfashionable homebody who married Ernest Hemingway in 1921. Books of The Times: A First Wife Can Be So Stolid and Clueless and Plain and Pregnant 2011-02-27T22:49:34Z

The book’s flailing heroine, Cass, an emerging playwright, flees New York after a disastrous opening night. Working in TV, Jen Silverman Wrote a Novel. About Theater. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

The fall season brought both “Timeless,” on NBC, in which a team pursues a shadowy figure through history, and “Frequency,” a satisfying CW series in which the heroine communicates with her dead father across time. Review: In ‘Travelers,’ Some Serious Time-Sharing 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

In “Worlds’ Finest,” the heroines find themselves exiled from their world and forced to confront other versions of heroes who were once familiar to them. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: A Gulf in Sales Numbers 2013-04-26T18:30:07Z

“Romance at short notice was her specialty,” Saki wrote of the heroine in his short story “The Open Window”; Marian, too, has discovered the usefulness of quick improvisation. In Simon Mawer’s ‘Tightrope,’ a Female Spy Masters the Tools of Her Trade 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

Part of the reason is that the movie also functions as a bildungsroman, following the maturation of our heroine/cannibal, Justine, as she discovers the desires that move her. WATCH: From virgin vegetarian to sexual cannibal 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

British actress Keira Knightley, known for playing tragic heroines in period dramas, strayed into new territory with her first major singing role in "Begin Again," a feel-good film about the music industry and starting over. In 'Begin Again,' Keira Knightley tunefully leaves comfort zone 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Publishing is, notoriously, a bandwagon industry, jam-packed with doppelgangers and duplicate titles, but the continued popularity and production of books on forgotten heroines signifies a real hunger to hear about the other half of history. Books about ‘kick-ass’ women might be a pain in one – but we need to hear these wondrous stories 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

Kia Corthron’s “Come Down Burning,” which also has a heroine who performs abortions, makes a clear connection between the option to safely end a pregnancy and women’s ability to control their own lives. Comic or Graphic, Shows About Abortion Surface a Stark Divide 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z

Furthermore, even though she’s often submissive, Eva, with her own dark past and insistence on her own sexual and psychological power, is a stronger and tougher character than James’ less experienced heroine. “People are at their most vulnerable when they’re naked together”: The rise of erotic romance 2014-01-04T00:00:00Z

Ms. Whelan, who eventually seems to be Namouna, is mysterious — as befits a heroine — until the final moment, when she grabs Mr. Angle in a passionate kiss. Dance Review: The Sailor Who Fell Into Grace With the Wig-Wearing Nymphs 2010-09-19T22:07:00Z

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