In Russia, he was portrayed as a valiant military hero, leading the local rebel forces in their fight against Kiev.
In truth, most parents are an unsteady mix of overachiever and underachiever, idealist and pragmatist, valiant hero and lazy jerk.
Above all, the characters, from the cheerful huntsmen and village girls to the simple, valiant hero and the prince who rules over them, were all with the tuneful, sensational music a mirror in which every German could find his reflection.
Nearly all heroic lays are associated with the story of Sigurd (or Siegfried), the valiant hero, and his ill-fated love for Brunhild, who, too, figures to a varying extent in different lays.
That was my version of the valiant hero like Don Quixote.
After his letter came out, questions swirled: What had happened to the valiant hero who'd made that famous vow?
One false dragon slayer, Warren Buffett, pretended to offer himself and his income as the valiant hero on the op-ed pages of the New York Times.
Which is a happy close to a sad story about a group who genuinely believe they are valiant heroes who, alone, are standing against a sinister cabal of vaguely defined Muslims threatening to take over the continent using food classification to deliver Sharia law to Australia.
Mid mayhem, the action often stops to allow the bloodied, valiant heroes to exchange a soulful look — a moment Mr. Woo sometimes even freeze-frames for maximum virile significance.
One of Pearl Harbor's most valiant heroes, Mr. Tomich was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in 1941, the nation's highest military honor, one given for "extraordinary courage and disregard of his own safety".
