"This is a great, if not a heroic, paper [that] shows us just how significant parasites are to ecosystem functioning".
The values of harmony and tolerance would stand or fall with the struggle of the Oslobodjenje staff to stay together and remain true to their tradition". Oslobodjenje is a heroic paper.
The idea of a continuously undulating floor at the space-age EPFL campus in Lausanne sounded heroic on paper, but now built, the seamless surface has had to be populated with all manner of handrails, non-slip floor guides and little wedges to hold the furniture in place.
If newspaper people often talk in heroic terms, which their papers don't always live up to, there really is something cool about a business in which your job is to seek truth.
Krapp, a mournful old man who lives surrounded by the detritus of his once-heroic intellectual ambitions -- books, papers and boxes of reel-to-reel tape -- reaches into a drawer of his metal desk and extracts a banana.
She moves her story through fast, terrifying intricacies of plot: journeys, battles, smuggled papers, love affairs, carefully calculated loyalties, heroic sacrifices and endless duplicity.
On paper, it has historic sweep and heroic milieu, but it is neither intimate nor epic.
The second big story is the phone-hacking scandal, over which this paper's dogged tenacity was as heroic as News International's foot-dragging was utterly shameful.
The editorials in Hotze's paper worked hard to depict Confederates as heroic patriots fighting for home rule, and they pleaded with Englishmen to recognize the fact.
"Mr Clinton said: 'The only way to abolish war is to make peace heroic.' True, but what does it mean?" the paper commented, before succumbing.
