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Leading man   /lˈidɪŋ mæn/   Listen
Leading man

noun
1.
Actor who plays the leading male role.





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"Leading man" Quotes from Famous Books



... repeat the toast early in May 1798, when large parts of Ireland were on the brink of revolt. In so dire a crisis it behoved a leading man to weigh his words. But the wilful strain in his nature set all prudence at defiance. Thereupon several of Pitt's friends recommended a public prosecution for sedition, or at least a reprimand at the bar of the House of Commons. To the former course Pitt objected as giving ...
— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose
... oligarchy, revolted, and Cosimo was recalled, and, like his father, was elected gonfalonier. With this recall began his long supremacy; for he returned like a king and like a king remained, quickly establishing himself as the leading man in the city, the power behind the Signoria. Not only did he never lose that position, but he made it so naturally his own that when he died he was able to transmit it ...
— A Wanderer in Florence • E. V. Lucas
... Unfortunately there was no audience present to appreciate it here, and the prompter forgot to ring down the curtain just then, so that Patsy stood helpless, forced to go on hearing all that Marjorie and her leading man wished to improvise in ...
— Seven Miles to Arden • Ruth Sawyer
... the leading man of the regiment; petted by the colonel on account of his aristocratic connexions, admired by the older officers for his knowledge of the world, and looked up to by the younger as the most daring in adventure, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. • Various
... The leading man, after consulting with his companions, replied, "You have got shut up there a friend of ours, and you must give him up to us, or take ...
— The Gilpins and their Fortunes - A Story of Early Days in Australia • William H. G. Kingston


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