Sentences with phrase «engaging heroine»

But with its excellent controls, engaging heroine, thrilling combat, and fascinating setting, it doesn't need to.

Cozy mystery readers do want to meet your engaging heroine as she ventures into a new town or career, but remember the old advice to show - don't - tell.

Sophie Kinsella writes funny, engaging heroines, some single, some married, but all with a lot of heart.

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The prophet Amos also recalls that the Ammonites have «ripped up the women with child, of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border» (1:13) In the Tale, the Handmaids» own children have been ripped from them so that these «twolegged wombs» may become the property of a state mobilized to invade all private spaces (including those «pockets of Baptist guerrillas» engaged in border warfare) In her latter days, Atwood's heroine, like the «handmaids» in Joel 2:29, prophesies against such state - sponsored terrorism, but even more against its inscription in the people's hearts (Jer.

«I, Tonya» is far more engaging when its characters aren't winking at the camera, and Gillespie almost squeezes his heroine out of her own movie instead of more directly reckoning with her secondhand involvement in the incident that has come to define her life, but the film always rediscovers its poise by returning to Harding's circumstances.

An engaging, class - conscious Tantalus myth in which the condemned's only crime is her existence, the Chilean drama A Fantastic Woman subjects its twentysomething trans heroine, Marina Vidal (Daniela Vega), to a battery of indignities as grief and closure remain out of her reach, the frustration underscored by...

Be forewarned, this Cameron Diaz vehicle seizes on any excuse to serve up crude fare whether by having the heroine engage in relentlessly - vulgar repartee or merely prance around suggestively scantily clad.

It has an engaging, irrepressible heroine it strands at the moment she should be doing something («Am I supposed to be... doing something?»

The engaging plot can certainly carry the tale, but Hale's likable, introspective heroine makes this also a book about courage and justice in the face of overwhelming odds.

- Charles Todd, bestselling author of the Ian Rutledge series and the Bess Crawford series «Introducing an incisive, sympathetic heroine with a painful past while shedding light on a fascinating cloistered historical world, The Widows of Malabar Hill is not only immediately engaging - it has staying power.»

Equally engaging is Ally Grayson, the heroine of Shannon Drake's winning historical romance, Beguiled.

- Kirkus» [A] spirited debut... Compelling characters, an engaging story line, and a heroine with lots of moxie make this a thoroughly enjoyable read.»

This engaging fantasy traces the adventures of a bookish but brave heroine.

Sweeping and sultry literary fiction, featuring a memorable young heroine and engaging characters whose intimate dramas interconnect with hers.

Queen of the Underworld is sweeping and sultry literary fiction, featuring a memorable young heroine and engaging characters whose intimate dramas interconnect with hers.

Readers would be horrified and aghast, but they'd also be engaged and sympathetic to the heroine's journey.

«Between an engaging story and lead character, gorgeous art and terrific building and utilization of music, I think he's going to have a lot of eyes on his heroine.

Mirror's Edge delivers players straight into the shoes of a modern day heroine as she traverses a vertigo - inducing cityscape, engaging in intense combat, fast - paced chases and challenging puzzles.

In her elaborate, large - scale paintings, Mickalene Thomas (born 1971) has engages the tension between a personal investigation of eroticism, beauty, and black femininity and a critique of the overt sexual imagery prevalent in popular culture and media — from Blaxploitation film heroines like Cleopatra Jones to the construction of middle - class, African - American taste in Ebony magazine.

Her early paintings revolve around a central protagonist: a tomboy heroine engaged in various physical activities associated with youth set against an empty backdrop.

This heroine engages in remarkable feats: she liberates Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben from their demeaning stereotypes, wrestles with an older white businessman in outer space, and takes on Napoleon's army when soldiers shoot the nose off the Sphinx.

She engages with the tension between a personal investigation of eroticism, black femininity and beauty and a pop - cultural critique of the overt sexual imagery prevalent in the media — from Blaxploitation film heroines like Cleopatra Jones to the construction of middle - class, African - American taste in Ebony magazine.