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Eleni, I think you might have hit the nail on the head about that redemption element in a tortured hero and the heroine's love being a major part of the character arc!

NZ/Aus Authors: Anna Campbell - Captive of Sin Nalini Singh 2009

If a hero has callously disregarded the heroine's feelings throughout most the book ...

NZ/Aus Authors: Anna Campbell - Captive of Sin Nalini Singh 2009

So you could have your hero and heroine meet without a third party being there, and your heroine's reputation doesn't necessarily get ruined.

A Sweet Spot in Literary History Cynthia Crossen 2011

After Claude, which came out in 1973, was the first of her "legitimate" books, which means there is much speculative discussion of the heroine's rape fantasies but no actual depictions of the event.

After Claude by Iris Owens – review 2011

And every scene is clearly labeled in Aline Brosh McKenna's screenplay, which resembles nothing so much as a PowerPoint presentation—this means this, that means that—with bullet points emphasized by on-camera interviews of the heroine's friends and associates.

'Drive': A Rolls of an Action Film Noir Joe Morgenstern 2011

But this show exhausts us, with the first 10 or so minutes a barrage of strange images, doctors and nurses repeatedly asking the patient to say simple things and our heroine's fractured delivery of her mind's confused impressions. it settles down during the group sessions, led by Amy (January LaVoy) who is so patient and understanding it's quietly maddening.

Michael Giltz: Theater: "Driving Miss Daisy" Sputters, "Wings" Doesn't Soar Michael Giltz 2010

The whole story of the hero's and heroine's privations in London is a reminiscence of the winter of

Biography in the DNB 2010

The main difference is in the heroine's pottery: Caissie Levy's artistic crocks are a lot less penile than the tumescent screen versions.

A Woman Killed with Kindness; Loyalty; Ghost – review 2011

But this show exhausts us, with the first 10 or so minutes a barrage of strange images, doctors and nurses repeatedly asking the patient to say simple things and our heroine's fractured delivery of her mind's confused impressions. it settles down during the group sessions, led by Amy (January LaVoy) who is so patient and understanding it's quietly maddening.

Michael Giltz: Theater: "Driving Miss Daisy" Sputters, "Wings" Doesn't Soar Michael Giltz 2010

'Emma' 1996 During a cheerful interlude of lawn archery in Douglas McGrath's screen version of Jane Austen's comic tour de force, one of the heroine's arrows lands in the grass below a big, overstuffed target.

'Drive': A Rolls of an Action Film Noir Joe Morgenstern 2011