| An attempt was made to heroize him, but he withdrew to the seclusion of his room and would see no one. |
| It is true that part of Epiphanius's impetus in recounting this anecdote is to heroize orthodoxy. |
| Flint's admiration for his subject leads him to heroize and to underplay problematic episodes, such as Le Corbusier's work for the Vichy regime. |
| The tyranny associated by Renaissance humanists with the age of chivalric knights and with the knight figure caused romances that heroize the bygone age to fall into disfavor. |
