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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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