He may be the anti-hero who drains the filth away. From Wordnik.com. [Bush's Ownership Society Suits Jack's Entrepreneurial Style] Reference
What's going to attract the public to this anti-hero?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2002] Reference
Meet Don Draper, the protagonist/anti-hero of Mad Men. From Wordnik.com. [William Bradley: Mad Men Returns: The '60s Advertising Drama Is A Time Tunnel To the Present] Reference
It seems almost like the anti-hero that Tony Soprano is. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2006] Reference
In "Croupier" you played an anti-hero writer turned casino dealer. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2005] Reference
He's almost an anti-hero, but someone that they cheered, regardless. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Sports Year 2000 - December 28, 2000] Reference
It ` s got kind of an anti-hero at the center of it, this guy named earl. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 29, 2005] Reference
I can't think of another movie where there's an anti-hero in quite that way. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2006] Reference
I'm betting the Navy will swing for Honor and not for Hizzoner, the anti-hero. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Sunday Roundup] Reference
How can we forget-or resist - Alfie, that working class, womanizing anti-hero?. From Wordnik.com. [John Farr: Praising Caine: The Original "Alfie" Turns 76] Reference
Milton's anti-hero is complex and, at least initially, alluringly sympathetic. From Wordnik.com. [John Lundberg: A Truly Epic Movie] Reference
I can ` t think of another movie where there ` s an anti-hero in quite that way. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2006] Reference
In this one, she's sort of an anti-hero, which is kind of a new thing for Jodie. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2006] Reference
He is the post-WWII American male anti-hero who has no place in the modern world. From Wordnik.com. [Vivian Norris de Montaigu: Sexism and the Workplace: Have We Come a Long Way (Baby)?] Reference
He's good at that anti-hero role and the movie was interesting and kept you going. From Wordnik.com. [dulligirl Diary Entry] Reference
Often carried away by the anti-hero, but rescued either by her father or the hero. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
Don Draper, our rather cynical anti-hero protagonist, is delighted by the question. From Wordnik.com. [William Bradley: Mad Men: "The Color Blue" -- HuffPost Review] Reference
Sarah Palin is the anti-hero, the dark feminine, what Deepak Chopra calls the "shadow.". From Wordnik.com. [Diana Meehan: Myth America] Reference
Tommy Wilhelm, the anti-hero in Saul Bellow's Seize the Day, is another edifying example. From Wordnik.com. [Richard B. Woodward: Bernard Madoff and Anton Chigurh: the Con Man as Serial Killer] Reference
I'm not a high level al-Qaeda operative but, I'm the perfect anti-hero they're looking for. From Wordnik.com. [Onnesha Roychoudhuri: Gitmo From the Inside] Reference
The anti-hero, Sir Peter Osborne, has no sense of kindness or obligation towards his tenants. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Hays (1760-1824)] Reference
Alex "Hurricane" Higgins was snooker's anti-hero, seeking neither acceptance nor respectability. From Wordnik.com. [Alex Higgins, snooker's anti-hero, dies aged 61] Reference
On the positive side, the show's anti-hero protagonist, Don Draper, continues to not fall apart. From Wordnik.com. [William Bradley: Mad Men: "The Beautiful Girls" Revolve Around the Not So Beautiful Men and the Not So Beautiful Biz] Reference
Maybe the anti-hero to everybody else, but he doesn't really care how other people feel about this. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2007] Reference
A ripening anti-hero has been told he'll have to pay for the police keeping the British mobs at bay. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2003] Reference
But now the hero in Lolita is described to us as an anti-hero, that is to say, as a case of mental illness. From Wordnik.com. [LOVE] Reference
I have vague memories of this being (almost) the way of the protypical anti-hero of many classic Scottish novels. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
The mean-but-strong Bully can go from being the anti-hero of this movie to the straight-up villain in a heartbeat. From Wordnik.com. [Pete Cenedella: A Man of Peace Pushed Too Far: Yelling "Liar" in a Crowded Theater] Reference
Smooth as silk, Rozelle was a confident charmer while Davis was an insecure, anti-hero, and even self-loathing dominator. From Wordnik.com. [Roger I. Abrams: The Return of Al Davis] Reference
He was introduced in the comic book world in the early 1970s, as a seething, resentful anti-hero type typical of the era. From Wordnik.com. [William Bradley: This X Doesn't Mark the Spot: The Wolverine Movie Lacks the Series' Socially Significant Themes] Reference
It is one thing to have a sympathetic portrait of an anti-hero as he struggles to be decent in a world that values his indecency. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Mendelson: Huff Post review: The Town (2010)] Reference
Pacino is more the natural hero - or anti-hero, while De Niro has made his name playing mostly troubled, unsympathetic characters. From Wordnik.com. [John Farr: Best Movies By Farr -- Celebrating Pacino and De Niro] Reference
At the time, 1962, we've just over here been through the British New Wave, which had introduced an entirely new kind of British anti-hero. From Wordnik.com. [Oh, James! A History Of Bond From Connery To Craig] Reference
So to see you playing -- I mean, you ` re such an anti-hero in that, and this time you ` re really just a solid -- no pun intended -- good guy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2005] Reference
↑ Jeffrey Katzenberg (No. 53) proves he can take a joke, brushing off rumors that the dastardly anti-hero of Monsters vs. Aliens is based on his likeness. From Wordnik.com. [Work Week in Review: Politics and Power] Reference
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