Sentence examples for act the hero from inspiring English sources

You can even try to act the hero name.

L. Sprague de Camp's novel Lest Darkness Fall (1941) has an American archaeologist rescuing Imperial Rome in its decline, an act the hero carries out with such luminous attention to techno-historical detail that it resembles a World Bank bailout of an underdeveloped country.

Statham acts the hardnut hero quite serviceably, though it's horrible to watch Joan Allen's glacial warden cracking under pressure.

In the play within a play, B. J. J. puts on whiteface and acts both the hero George and the villain M'Closkey himself.

His "Don Quixote" comes most alive in the second act, when the hero and his sensibilities take center stage, and where Mr. Ratmansky's own affinity for the fantastical comes to the fore.

Ray Milland, Melvyn Douglas, and Robert Young acted the screwball-comedy heroes proficiently, but the roles didn't release anything in their own natures — didn't liberate and complete them, the way farce completed Grant.

The anatomy of love will be explored in an unusual operatic double bill, from Oper Frankfurt, of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle; in the latter, love is thwarted through the appalling acts of the hero's past, while in the Purcell it is the hero's destined future that destroys his devotion to Dido.

Those who think governments were given an excuse not to act are "heroes of the counterfactual", he argues.

Now is the time for elected officials and policymakers to act more like the heroes in our classrooms and schools, and lay it all down on the line for our students.

The operators of the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, on the grounds of the original Woodstock concert, gave up trying to work with Woodstock Ventures and announced on May 4 that they were going ahead with their own commemorative concert Aug. 15, called the Bethel Woods Music Festival, which will include acts from the Heroes of Woodstock tour.

Do it to block the ball, not just to act like a hero!