agonist

In a sentence

Six example sentences with agonist, each labelled with its topic.

• Every scene bends toward the agonist, and the minor figures exist only to test what she will refuse.

  Literature

• The director cut forty minutes of subplot so the agonist would carry the entire second half of the picture.

  Movies

• In the illustrated saga the agonist kneels alone in the center panel while every painted onlooker turns away.

  Art

• The game lets you name the agonist, but the script never lets that character skip the trial in the ruined city.

  Gaming

• The opera's agonist sings barely twelve minutes in the first act, yet every other role exists to push her toward the final choice.

  Music

• Plato's dialogues read as drama, with Socrates as the agonist, a character shaped as carefully as any figure in a play.

  Philosophy

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