Sentence examples for a shared hero from inspiring English sources

The Marquis de Lafayette, who was made an American officer and helped to defeat the British at the battle of Yorktown in 1781, was a shared hero.

At Newport they mostly played songs by Paul Motian, a shared hero and mentor; what's on deck for this engagement is a welcome mystery.

Do things like this happen to you, or am I the only one?" Coetzee puts the Heston encounters down to the fact that Auster works in the film business before moving on to other concerns, including a review he is writing of the collected letters of Samuel Beckett, a shared hero.

The new Europe, supporters of revised textbooks say, needs to develop its own set of shared heroes and villains, battles and revolts.

By sharing heroes' stories, we honor them, and through them, promote faith in the power of good.

And just as the populist pageants of song fronted by Simon Cowell or Tom Jones thrive on the lyrics of love and the creation of a sense of community through a shared repertoire, so the hero of Meistersinger, Walther von Stolzing, is an emblem of a society that recognises itself through the prize song of a lovelorn young tenor.

There is a fake nobility to it, and this seems to be what the crowds have come for – to be raised up into a shared reverence for those heroes turned frozen flowers.

And for a town that takes pride in its music culture, his return as a conquering hero signaled a shared achievement.

Constantly introducing new heroes into a shared universe means older figures will have to take a Hulk-style break, at the very least, or be written out.

He even brings along, virtually intact, a subplot involving the mysterious disappearance of a friend of the narrator: in this case Ted Wilson, with whom our hero bonded over a shared love of – not cricket this time – scuba diving.

The museum managers have got used to a steady procession of visitors who are often startled to learn that another musician shared their hero's space.