Sentence examples for a common hero from inspiring English sources

With his fall from grace,South Africa lost a common hero.

"However, the punch line, which viewers familiar with the long-running campaign know, requires a common 'Holiday Inn Express hero,' in other words, someone who had 'stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.' " "Nevertheless, we regret the negative way in which the reader perceived it," she adds, and it was "our intent as well, certainly, not to offend anyone".

A consistent theme of his throughout his career has been an emphasis on equality – a concern he shared with those great Labour luminaries Hugh Gaitskell and Tony Crosland, their common hero in turn having been RH Tawney, with his celebrated book The Acquisitive Society.

What normally separates the common hero vs. evil tyrant scenario from the boss fight is the frequency of the encounters.

Svoboda argues that it's a common misconception that heroes are innately destined to be that way.

We're waiting to learn that he's not a great American sports hero but a common cheater, a guy who doesn't deserve to be where he is and maybe never did.

Our heroes have a common theme: value investing.

The 17-year-old hero suffers both a common social situation – divorced parents who have started second families – and a rare one: telekinetic powers, allowing him to take out his anger towards his mum, dad and step-family by menacing them with flying or exploding objects.

Cú Chulainn shows striking similarities to the Persian epic hero Rostam, as well as to the Germanic Lay of Hildebrand and the labours of the Greek epic hero Hercules, suggesting a common Indo-European origin, but lacking in linguistic, anthropological and archaeological material.

He's referred to in The Iliad as gentle, "and that really jumped out at me, because gentleness was not a common quality of these ancient Greek heroes.

Science was a common explanation for the origin of heroes in the Silver Age.