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Sentence Examples The script's rendering into Latin, Hebrew, and Aramaic is of a heroic painstakingness not seen since the mid '60s heyday of Esperanto cinema. He offers a heroic portrait of a CIA director rebuilding the agency into a more agile, effective organization, partly along network lines. Otherwise, his talent for timing, body language, and heroic drama are as solid as ever. By contrast it's Fiorentino who mines the heroic in Eroica whilst Hatto exploits little agogics in the score to hint at the wit within. He portrays the young wife as a heroic suppressor of her own inclinations and passions for the common good. Subsequently it became known that a second lifeboat and her crew were lost in the heroic attempt to relieve the same vessel. To the kibbutznik, the story is one of heroic volunteers establishing themselves in the face of a hostile population. Ontario's minister of health acknowledged the heroic work of healthcare workers, and this was an important act of reciprocity. The absurd story, like that of many heroic operas, declares itself as wish-fulfilment unadulterated. This last memorial has a notable sculpture, a heroic Cretan woman raising her hammer to chisel the names of the dead. He went into this tournament with an heroic reputation for time-consuming loquaciousness. In 1942 he was knighted, no doubt partly due to his heroic service to his country during both wars. These days we have heard of similar heroic undertakings by resolute wooers. The middle classes preferred the German light or comic operas of Nicolai and Lortzing to the French or Italian heroic works. This delicious, melancholic vision both romanticises the subject and bathes the object in writerly, almost heroic solitude. Jen is neither a typical villain nor a persona of heroic proportions in the conventional sense of chivalry inherent in the notion of wuxia. In the midst of his heroic acts, he falls passionately in love with Marguerite, France's most celebrated actress. I do not mean to belittle the heroic deeds achieved by the pioneers, some whom even laid down their lives in fighting crime. Jack the heroic doctor is tending to the terminally injured Marshal, who through clenched teeth is trying to tell him something about Kate. The heroic 64-year-old was blasted in the stomach at point blank range when he tried to stop two armed robbers escaping with their loot. Show More Sentences These days my feet tend more to the caution of the spondaic than the remorseless, heroic march of the iambic. Such references invited the athletes to see themselves in the heroic Lapiths. The gaff, the muck-fork spear and the hayfork-turf candle form a tripod for the salmon to cradle in and are heroic in size and cast in bronze. Preoccupied pedestrians amble past the heroic statue of San Martin on horseback without a glance. Behan's recollection of his heroic role in the Rising is anamnesis, par excellence, of course. I had always envisioned a sort of heroic rescue, but those were only dreams. They used to be frequently invoked as an inspiring example of heroic resistance to injustice and oppression. It's a book discussing what makes a military leader, and goes through examples of the hero, the anti-hero, the unheroic, and the false heroic. On a more informal level, Italian coffee houses often presented light comedies, heroic tragedies, and dialect plays sponsored by drama clubs. The artists built the city of Boston on stage, and I wrote a kind of heroic Shakespearean text in blank verse and rhyme about the city's history. In coffee shops throughout the country, men can be found entertaining each other with humorous stories or heroic tales. The heroic prototype is considerably watered down and herein lies the crux of the problem. Nominees might be heroic lifesavers who have put themselves in danger to help somebody else. The great age of English satire began with Dryden, who perfected the epigrammatic and antithetical use of the heroic couplet for this purpose. Yet these heroic changes, which have largely been driven by transsexual activists, focus solely on transsexuality and gender identity. Setting the outlaw apart and marking him as truly heroic, oral traditions in particular ascribe his continued success to supernatural protection. We still live in an age of martyrs and heroic saints, of apostates and world-weary skeptics. In the risks, gambles and chances by which entrepreneurs risk their fortunes on new ventures, capitalism enters a new heroic phase. The heroic message of against-all-odds struggle and triumph make this film a popular favorite, broadcast ritually every New Year. He covered people with gold and silver foil, posing as images in heroic sculptures. Show More Sentences Scully's architectonic, and often heroic, compositions are not, it turns out, purely formal. He keeps the focus perpetually on the spinning basketball, accentuating its heroic appeal. Sartre's behavior during the occupation, though he was never a collabo, was less heroic than his immediate postwar views might suggest. The heroic muscular physiques in the magazine caught young Brock's attention and fed his desire to work out. In a heroic society, the communal aspect of the feasting was an appropriate means of rewarding the prowess of the individual warriors. His new work for the Commons at Metro Tech is based upon the traditional heroic monument. We read of their heroic actions on the field of battle and their deeds in other places. Ireland's team made a heroic effort and were just pipped for the bronze medal. Likewise, there may be instances where a single heroic act may be its own sufficient justification. The heroic performance of Ben and his twin brother Jerry was absolutely pivotal to that success. Congratulations to the team for their heroic performances and great displays of darts, and good luck in the Charity Cup Final. Through his consummate technical skill and artistic vision, Botticelli brings this heroic progress brilliantly and miraculously to life. Exterior view of lone figures scurrying across empty squares dominated by heroic statuary. Mr. Rochester was a princely and heroic master, and, despite his ireful frown and brusque, moody manner, Jane felt at ease in his presence. He gives Erik a rather heroic sound, with occasionally covered tone leading to some flatness. The piece is heroic in its implications, and powerful in its visual component. Corridos narrate stories about revolution, crime, heroic showdowns, horse races and natural disasters. Pale Fire consists of a 999-line poem in heroic couplets followed by a 200-page Commentary with Index. They have him photographed in a heroic pose to be put up in a poster on the wall. He issued in 1715 the first volume of his translation in heroic couplets of Homer's Iliad. Show More Sentences In 1705 he published The Campaign, a poem in heroic couplets in celebration of the victory of Blenheim. There is silly foolery and there is heroic foolery, the Zeppelin-tinkerer explains. They dug down to where the heroic fox had taken cover, and shot it in the head. Though still written in the neo-classical heroic couplet, The Economy is a quite different poem from its predecessor. The fictional reference of David's picture is thus epic and heroic in scale. Set back as I tell about the heroic doings of this lovable critter as spelled out by the elder folk of our town. These two ventures, Gura suggests, are the most heroic scholarly endeavors in American cultural history of the last generation. The Bellman is a classic piece of realist painting dating from 1886, in which a public servant is given almost heroic status. The deadpan expression he wears in almost every scene might seem like heroic stoicism, but it's also the face of deep denial. The library is a heroic double-height space, top-lit by angular openings punched into the gently curved roof. He designed an ambitious, even heroic, building, but did not live to see it more than barely begun. He was a declinist who thought that capitalism's destructive energies would sweep away the heroic virtues that built it. Glynn popped up to knock one over with three minutes remaining, despite heroic defending by the men in primrose and blue. It's the gloaming twilight of it, the soft seduction of lost hopes, the valiant wit, the heroic jig. The heroic deeds of this brave and noble Irishman have brought honour and glory to his native land. The other option was science fiction with players having psionic powers, but we really felt more comfortable with the heroic fantasy theme. Always, always in war there were too few of heroic stature, to counter the depredations of tyrants and monsters. Belarussian cinematography tends to focus on heroic and romantic genres, as well as the psychology of characters. Ordinary people who find themselves suddenly elevated to the heroic pantheon too often take with them their publicist and literary agent. He believes that iambic pentameter is the most suited to heroic verse, especially in English, and that rhyme should be consistent and regular. Show More Sentences The story is fast-moving and filled with heroic derring-do, impressive action sequences, and deeply-felt tragedy. Follow the revolutionary line of the Third Internationale in the heroic struggle against left deviationism! On the other hand, you are pushing your luck if you try to pull off heroic endurance feats every day. I know some of you have made heroic efforts to get here, and we are very grateful and appreciative of that. Irene and I managed to get to church together, which requires heroic effort on her part. His grimly realistic depiction of frontier, small town life comprehensively undermines the heroic mythologising endemic to the Western genre. His first diminuendo also impresses in that his playing doesn't lose its heroic character, simply because he's gotten softer. They bring the highfalutin heroic language back down to earth and make it palatable. There was something heroic in her blinkered self-belief, and for all her dislikeable qualities, audiences were irresistibly drawn to her. Our nation was founded on a heroic act of disobedience to a king who was presumed to rule by divine right. He was subsequently arrested by a heroic Garda and some members of the local community. Maybe she was some sort of scribe, writing epics about their heroic journey? I know that as epic as the performances of the athletes were, there were similarly heroic contributions that are almost entirely overlooked. Four bored ghosts duplicitously call on our heroic paranormal exterminators to brush up on their scare tactics and have a little fun. Our heroic past should help to educate the personnel of today's army and navy in a spirit of patriotism and loyalty to one's military duty. In her search for historical and literary exemplars of heroic women, Terry Castle may find some reward in looking back to the ancient Greeks. It has every thing the TV audience need, dramatic scenery, heroic exploits, a stage of passion and colour. St. Jacques, a heroic fighter involved in the Crusades, was the exact double of Ogoun Ferraille, a powerful warrior spirit. Those who knew these men intimately were charged with the duty to relate their heroic deaths to their families upon returning to the Capital. For all of DA's heroic rejection of early-80s production crud, this album seems to revel in its very 1986-ness. Show More Sentences It is a heroic piece and becomes the more so when one considers its scale in the context of the artist's physical difficulties. It was not a time of men challenging each other in heroic duels, but a time for the thegns to organise repairs to bridges and roads. What is clear from our history is the importance, the absolute crucialness, of the heroic individual or the benign obsessive. The heroic scale of the Interpolis headquarters required a comparably bold landscape design. But it was not the grand heroic altarpieces that gave the show its real soul. With his Eroica symphony he inaugurated what is often known as his heroic style, producing a work of unprecedented scale and power. Even so, a number of crosses and grave slabs from northern England do incorporate warrior imagery and scenes from Scandinavian heroic culture. The heroic Greece of the Homeric poems is already a Greece fragmented into independent city-states. Most of the stories are heroic epics where the batir and his trusty horse save the clan and its livestock from danger. Yet this homage to the heroic model of Baudelairean modernity is, of course, a semiparodic one. To communicate King's heroic story, text panels alternate with images and objects in a variety of styles and mediums. Readers are invited to continue to submit football haiku or heroic couplets. It must have been during the Dark Age that heroic poetry developed and spread, even if it originated in the Mycenaean age. Indeed, the extent to which the campfire story meets the spirit of the heroic tale of mythology is nothing short of amazing. Yukar usually refers to heroic poetry, chanted mainly by men, dealing with demigods and humans. This heroic, nationalist saga has been recapitulated in hundreds of books, articles, and school-texts ever since. Outside the formularised heroic literature, descriptions of battles, tactics and army compositions are rare. These include native law texts as well as heroic prose narratives and intricately crafted rhymed verse in hundreds of different meters. He writes of the attempt to create a new myth around the heroic individual. I do not mean to suggest that every heroic act must represent some form of collusion between the will of the achiever and the finger of God. Show More Sentences Dutt's heroic deed on the set of Mother India changed the course of his life. They want lively narrative, bold handling of intrepid if not downright heroic characters, and an unflinching recognition of our past militarism. We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. The Arabian knights may be famous for their heroic deeds, but apparently word had failed to spread about their superb table manners. I'm more in favour of this kind of character, rather than characters who demonstrate a heroic resolution. Where the most heroic character in the piece also happens to enjoy sadistic torture it's never going to be cheery and relentlessly upbeat, is it? At present heroic missions are undertaken by activists who smuggle generic drugs into countries where their sale is prohibited. But in the Chinese as well as Western ideology, isn't it the heroic personality in an individual that counts? Plucky firefighter Mark Murphy is back home from his heroic mission to help rescue people trapped in the Algerian earthquake. She gives her character's heroic fantasies about the scoundrel Earnest an honest dignity without becoming farcical. She visited the cottage every day and the sprites brought gifts of seeds and flowers to show their appreciation for the heroic deed he had done. Her heroic labours and vigilant eye saved me from more than mere typographical errors. David Kuebler brings a heroic touch to Nerone, and copes well with Handel's ornate divisions. In the above, semi-comic account, Dickens omits to mention his own heroic conduct in aiding the injured and dying. The cops weren't hugely heroic figures, but working stiffs, not even remotely glamorous. A retrograde and oligarchical government has just been overthrown by the heroic people of Paris. Once the media caravanserai moves on to the next global flashpoint, we will likely ignore the messy aftermath to the heroic events of last week. A Royal Marines Commando from an heroic World War II raid on occupied France has returned to the area where he made his epic overland escape. They are the object of public pity for their heroic battles against addiction. In this heroic period, he revealed a kit of talents which few humans have possessed. Show More Sentences More important, Higgins was fully credible as a heroic actor, while Hurley was perfect as the callow, fervent young Fugard. Monarch of the Glen is nothing less than a heroic portrait, in which the stag transcends the animal world to embody virtues of a higher order. The heroic duo took off in the direction of eight spired rocks to the west. His voice was essentially lyrical, but he could raise it to nobly heroic heights. In one scene, the heroic spacewoman's stiff upper lip speech is a little more dramatic than the one in the subtitles. He's a civilian lawyer who now has a Bronze Star for heroic service in Iraq. For his leadership, Sergeant Ayersman was awarded a Bronze Star with a distinguishing device for heroic achievement. He received a Bronze Star for his heroic rescue of wounded Marines at Tarawa, his son said. Knowledge of their very existence is systematically denied and repressed under propaganda valorising war as heroic and ennobling. The heroic policeman who saved a baby from the wrecked car will receive a medal in recognition of his bravery. In Marx's account of the neoclassicism of the French Revolution, the costume of neoclassicism was needed to provide a heroic disguise. The sides of the ceiling of the snuggery were covered with portraits of heroic Scots attired in kilts. His heroic effort has opened up a vast, untrodden realm for alphanumerical investigation. In the end, Thomas Jefferson's heroic status remained predominantly unshaken. I used to have a view of writers as being heroic figures, in the sense that they would say unsayable and courageous things. From her songs, one can sense the many layers of her personality, the unrestrainedness and the heroic aspect. And people are going to keep using the flag, some to celebrate a heroic past, some to protest an unpromising future. Only as the strike nears defeat does his obstinacy acquire a more human, faintly heroic quality. In Greek myth, the story of the Crab is not a tale of heroic glory, but rather a celebration of loyalty, persistence and determination. In this case, I don't mean that Ash is a heroic figure who accomplishes his goals in unheroic ways. Show More Sentences We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. Bacon emphasized that this ordeal of experiment was to be heroic testing, not the torture of a slavish and submissive victim. However he carries it off with real pathos and at times almost heroic understatement. He was not motivated by greed but by a desire to do something heroic, smash a drugs ring and present the evidence to police. Tyrone Power, tired of being typecast in heroic pretty-boy roles, optioned William Lindsay Gresham's pitch black noir novel himself. His arrest and deportation in 1907 was his first baptism in fire from which he emerged a high-minded statesman cast in a heroic mould. The church is in a period of enormous transition with heroic attempts being made to adapt to new conditions. Three of these plays were usually tragedies, plays that focused on a heroic character who falls due to his own folly. The ship was torpedoed off County Donegal and the book describes the heroic and partly successful rescue attempts. Both serials harked back to a period when men were heroic, women were virtuous and times were better. Traveling minstrels serenaded their clients with bawdy or heroic tales set to music. Elvis was a titan, a heroic everyman, an emblem of America's true greatness. But unless the Greens manage a heroic surge, it, too, might have to operate at Winston 's beck and call. Their history is replete with heroic deeds of selfless devotion and supreme sacrifice over the years. Yes, all heroic exaltation is dangerous, but the danger is not to the hero-worshipers, but to the hero. The parable, like the stories of the heroic women who disobeyed, in effect subverts the patriarchal system. They celebrated historical studies of science as ways of explaining the heroic progress of science towards truth. We thrill to their victories, commit their most heroic moments to memory, defend our favourite players with almost theological passion. Male viewers would have seen him as an exemplar of heroic and martial prowess. Too often, the country seems to be engrossed in a mythic, heroic narrative of patriotic, martial prowess. Show More Sentences Instrumentality, rationality and technocracy supplant the heroic, stripping away place, history, bodies, time. Cavalry were meant to await a breakthrough before exploiting breaches in enemy lines with a heroic drive forward. Hawker's published version accords him a heroic role in retrieving and burying all the Caledonia's dead and succouring her one survivor. While the heroic Samoans earned the praise of rugby fans everywhere, England's credibility was made to look laughable. By pointing the finger at Robin, a hired gun, she casts in a grubby light what had until now been seen as a tale of heroic political resistance. Despite all the heroic deeds in tales and sagas, a grown man would have seen a major conflict about once every twenty years. Through heroic personal effort, he gets things under control, makes a safety stop and then aborts the dive. In this time of unprecedented danger, heroic leadership must question old certainties and chauvinisms. I found several stories, admittedly usually overshadowed by the tragic and heroic stories of Australian victims and survivors. But our services and police do a heroic job for this country day in, day out. And it is not just the miners that use their banners as reminders of their heroic past. In terms of simple military success, Achilles is 'the best of the Achaeans', or Greeks, but he takes the heroic code of honour to extremes. Malcolm Turnbull, heroic defender of the common weal, is Member for Wentworth. Perhaps if the heroic hymnic patriotism had been proposed, the sarcastic young firebrand of the piano concerto would have jibbed. Transgression of this boundary was the act of a criminal and a heroic nature. At the same time, I thought the fact that she'd actually survived was weirdly heroic. Wallace's work is heroic, but he may as well be trying to empty the North Sea with a spoon. Discovering and forging westering paths was increasingly portrayed as a heroic, transforming experience. The Jeanne D'Arc of this film is no longer the heroic leader who raised the siege of Orleans. In his hobbits he created an image of heroic action that was both admirable and plausible. Show More Sentences From the perspective of the West Wing, the war on terror assumes a heroic quality, and the president heroic status. Hegel, for example, while not defending war, observed that it was the nursery of the heroic virtues. Courage was the defining virtue of the Homeric hero, and Aristotle evidently loved heroic courage above all. Two dancers in white make a classical assignation, she on pointe, he in heroic blouson. Thus, in ancient art, any human action was on the plane of the heroic. Although Canova made his name in the 1780s with heroic sculptures, it was the pathos and sentiment of his later pieces that so endeared him to a new generation of patrons. The poem is significant, as well as for the charm of its prologue, for the fact that it is the first attested use of the heroic couplet in Chaucer. What is the burlesque verse in English, is the heroic verse in French. We used to introduce heroic figures with sublime intentions to Chinese youth as role models, but the extra-grandeur of the figures was too much for them to believe. Sir George strode purposefully towards a grand statue of a heroic millipede raised on its hinder legs clutching a large cross in several of its limbs. Of course there were heroic modernist artists and writers who opposed twentieth-century totalitarianism, and classicists and traditionalists who supported totalitarianism. The fourth plane crashed, upside down, not into a landmark but into the Pennsylvanian countryside, after what seems to have been heroic resistance from the passengers. The Republic will surely perish without a heroic effort from all of us. Vaccination has a heroic history in the control of communicable diseases. In the blur of combat, he goes from heroic marksman to summary executioner, at one point preparing to finish off a disarmed youth with a point-blank shot. For the general publishing and pop-culture industries, this has not seemed so much like a heroic or contrarian stance as a stiff and snobbish one. Without the heroic efforts of locals who turned out in a flotilla of tiny boats to ferry passengers ashore, the loss of life could have been catastrophic. Lifeboat coxswain Gary Edwards praised the crew for their heroic work. His craggy visage stares from countless heroic portraits and statues. Australian Felix Noblis takes his audience back to the dark ages for his translation of the 8th century heroic poem which charts the battles of Beowulf, a Norse warrior. Show More Sentences The Public Catalogue Foundation's heroic project of publishing catalogues of all paintings in public ownership in the UK has now reached East Sussex. After the heroic installations of Judd, Flavin and Andre on the lower floors of the Guggenheim, McCollum's modestly sized, wall-mounted works looked, well, dinky. The walls, plastered with painted murals of epic battles and heroic deeds, were additionally decorated with the colorful banners and standards of several dukedoms. In an unwary moment, French dragoons come so very narrowly to causing Wellesley great harm, prevented only by the heroic efforts of Sergeant Richard Sharpe. His heroic actions typified the courage of all the firefighters at the scene. It is this kind of abstraction that leads to more mythology, more heroic narratives, more undertones of patriotic martyrdom. So it is with Just Send Me Word, a heroic love story amid the squalor and degradation of the Gulag. Claret for boys, port for men, and brandy for heroes, according to Dr. Johnson, and Hitch went for the heroic. Additional awards followed, but only infrequently and then only to individuals for heroic acts on actual forest fires, acts above and beyond the call of duty. Because the victory of Chanukah came about as the result of the heroic actions of a woman, Judith. Most respectable Jungians now can see that we can all heroic moments. On their debut, he sounded whiny as often as he sounded heroic. Scherman's images, painted on a heroic scale and with muscular intensity, have that same aggrandizing effect, even as they depict anti-heroes, culprits, demonic strategists. The artist's style combines heroic realism with a restrained delicacy of expression that places him among the best of the century's monument makers. The legitimate authority and reasonable chance of success conditions look problematic, ruling out most wars of liberation and wars of heroic sacrifice. This yearning for a unifying heroic leader recurred repeatedly. Jorma Silvasti, the tenor, has a bright, slightly reedy tone, rather than the big heroic voice required for the fanfare opening of the symphonic version. A few passages of Irish heroic poetry that survive from the prehistoric period employ an alliterative line very much like the one used by Old English poets. Another heroic figure of Bhutan is Shabdrung, the lama who assumed the title of Dharma Raja in the seventeenth century and laid the political foundations of Bhutan State. Unlike the human examples, these animal altruists do not perhaps deserve to be called heroic, and they are acting only in defense of their own kin. Show More Sentences Although the Lapith women do not seek husbands, they are assaulted by the Centaurs at a wedding and are defended by the heroic, athletic Lapiths, overseen by the god Apollo. He doesn't have the build for the Jackie Chan stunts he uses to repel the onslaught of his friends in crime-fighting, and he doesn't bear himself with heroic presence. His life is saved by the heroic revolutionary Fairfax and it is Fairfax who can unify and motivate a motley bunch of anti-monarchists into some semblance of an army. Crisis and redemption, the two antipodes of Martin's heroic rhetoric, constitute the classic parameters of salvational ideology and charismatic power. The actor's roguish, rough-and-tumble approach isn't well-suited to playing a heroic type, and his version of the Greek king lacks both presence and charisma. Yet a moment like this seems so overblown, so grandiloquent, and so self-consciously heroic that it simply stuns me. There are satiric songs mocking meanness and tyranny, songs in praise of drink and drinkers, while other pieces celebrate heroic feats of valour or of sport. Middle class people can claim neither the heroic struggles of the proletariat nor the cultural hauteur and effortless savoir faire of the aristocracy. I also have tons of espresso-sized mugs with snoopy on them, in various heroic poses. The heroic doctor is tending to the terminally injured Marshal. This time last year, when Celtic were engaged in a heroic, though ultimately futile, Champions League campaign, O'Neill's reputation was on the march. In that case, the scriptwriter will have to tell a journey of initiation, or heroic journey, which will also be the account of this character's development. His colours and figures were too decorative and ingratiating to satisfy the period's tough talk about heroic self-consciousness and mythic ambition. However, Sligo's defence was heroic, with the pack halting mauls on the line, and when the ball was released, the Sligo wing forwards and backs tackled tigerishly. Gladiator weds the heroic scope of movies like Ben-Hur, Spartacus, Braveheart, and Rob Roy with the serpentine political treachery of I, Claudius. Like the pediments, the metopes include local elements and offered a model of heroic behavior to the ancient viewer, especially to Olympic athletes. Other characters included two long-suffering frogs called Ernie and Sylve, an heroic tortoise called Lewis Collins and a little white shell called Jim Morrison. For art historians, this challenging work will offer an alternative to a history of Modern art which is all-too-often peopled with heroic trailblazers and lovable rogues. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. Shaun Goater's mishit shot took a massive deflection after 23 minutes and it then needed a series of heroic saves from goalkeeper Carlo Nash to keep Joe Royle's men in front. Show More Sentences There is nothing heroic about sitting in a small, cold room in the depths of winter as you get through your eight or ten hour shift as part of a lonely factory occupation. The Lions forwards put in a heroic effort but the backs offered no threat with the ball in hand and their defence, both collective and individual, let the side down. From just past the city limits came Ernest Hemingway to purify the American language and create another heroic legend. This brings us to a phenomenon which I call heroic unaffectedness. The price these supposedly heroic battalion commanders demanded for their combat roles is representation in parliament. Sarah's acceptance and his heroic feat made it an unforgettable day. Were its political leaders unheroic or did its peaceful history deny them the heroic role which revolution and civil war conferred on Washington and Lincoln? In this case, it is the story of a heroic time told by a quite unheroic, irritable, meticulous, but affectionate and completely determined human being. It should not surprise anyone if it turns out that Jean Houston's autobiography is a piece of fiction, a heroic myth spun by her imagination out of the fabric of her desires. However the rousing spectacle of so many dancers performing heroic choreography in unison should not be missed, even if it does not bear repeated viewing. For such a female, there can be no understanding, and the contrast between the wife's unnatural behaviour and the husband's heroic behaviour is specially stressed. All religions, nearly all philosophies, and even a part of science testify to the unwearying, heroic effort of mankind desperately denying its own contingency. The Greek-style neoclassicism of the building represents the heroic valour of the New Zealand soldier and emphasises the classical tragedy of battles such as at Gallipoli. Those Mozart parts are known as buffo roles, written for the semi-comic character singers of Mozart's companies, rather than noble, heroic leading men. Curtis spins a yarn that is ultimately hopeful, even heroic. But because I'm fundamentally weak and spineless, I find it awfully difficult to be similarly critical about the heroic efforts of a mere one-man band. A crucial part of the war effort was expended on creating an army of men who looked heroic, larger than life, and capable of showing forth the nation's virile strength. The seemingly heroic stance of ACOG and the rah-rah for consumers need to be set into proper context. But ah, how blessed am I to be ever awatched by that hairily heroic man. The massive and heroic piece was designed to be placed on top of the cathedral, but the city officials decided to place it in a more visible location. Show More Sentences In 1758 he published The Highlander, a heroic poem in six cantos. We're very excited with the opportunity to base a game on this time period when pilots were counted on to perform heroic and often suicidal deeds. Why the emphasis on the heroic exertion of vision and historiography? The Taiping Rebellion had added another dimension to these folk memories, expressed in heroic tales of the imaginary exploits of its leader Hong Xiuquan. Ranum marches the reader through examples of the heroic style in theatre, architecture, and art to show the increased anxiety over identity and status. The cadence, phrasing, and rhythm of the language is very similar to that found in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and in heroic contemporary Anglo-Saxon poetry. Two towers, he said, was a minimalist sculpture on a heroic scale. The complete dominance of the composition by the figures, themselves projected on so heroic a scale, was a major influence on the course of High Renaissance art. Kit's lunchbox is decorated with WPA-style heroic locomotives. In the preface to the work, Saxo writes that his patron Absalon, Archbishop of Lund had encouraged him to write a heroic history of the Danes. It was a formal parody of heroic verse, and it was primarily used for satire. In this manner, Milton portrays Adam as a heroic figure, but also as a greater sinner than Eve, as he is aware that what he is doing is wrong. The French alexandrine is currently the heroic line in French literature, though in earlier periods the decasyllable took precedence. This pursuit of freedom was largely a reaction against conservative values entrenched within the rigid heroic couplet. His meter would later develop into the heroic meter of the 15th and 16th centuries and is an ancestor of iambic pentameter. How can it be that the heroic efforts of the OSE and other groups dedicated to saving children from the gas chambers are not better known? When one contrasts it to the popular heroic poem, such as Beowulf, one finds that they share certain common features. Despite the heroic defense, the Russians abandoned Petropavlovsk as a strategic liability after the French and British forces withdrew. From heroic or triumphant memory the accent has shifted to martyrological memory. There were, indeed, other poems on similar topics that had bathetic rather than heroic conclusions. Find more words! 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