11.   For long stretches of the movie, the principal female characters simply disappear.

12.   First she decides on the killer, the victim and the motive, and she fills many notebooks with close analyses of her principal characters.

13.   He recommended her for Rosina, the principal character, and set off a buzz among friends in the music industry.

14.   His book, based on interviews with those involved, examined how the interplay between the principal characters contributed to the developing science.

15.   In life as well as fiction, the principal character in a story often speaks of a conquering hero after whom he would like to model his life.

16.   In the end, nearly every principal character lies dead.

17.   Instead, it dwells on scenes of back-alley sex and cartoonish bondage among its other principal characters.

18.   Its author is Yoshinori Kobayashi, a lean, bespectacled young intellectual, a frequent guest on television discussion programs and the principal character of his own comic strip.

19.   Jed Harris, the director of the play, surprised him by asking him to play a principal character.

20.   Most or many of his books offered a Fonda-image principal character.