Sentence examples for adventure hero from inspiring English sources

Dan went from being a Google engineer to an action-figure adventure hero.

He talks about his experiences with the bluff modesty of a Boys Ownn adventure hero.

His boyish features are complemented by a physical agility and alertness that make it easy to understand why he has been anointed Hollywood's latest adventure hero.

Travel and sexual conquest have long been cast as male impulses, from Casanova's far-flung affairs to the promiscuity of the modern adventure hero.

Those among them who find the excitement and anguish of World War II especially fascinating, along with others who enjoy a gripping wartime tale whatever the time period, are going to relish Shirley Hughes's realistic adventure, "Hero on a Bicycle".

Published in 1885, Haggard's colonialist romp through the deserts and mountains of Africa, brought us Allan Quartermain, the archetypal flawed adventure hero, and introduced the Lost World genre of fiction.

And where were the female adventure heroes?

The adventure heroes — Superman, Superboy, Batman and Robin — transported me to worlds far from what I regarded as my Dickensian circumstances.

Only about ten percent of the dime novels were detective fiction, with only five percent of those titles set in urban areas.4 More often than not, the detectives were portrayed as adventure heroes with a peculiar penchant for disguises and varying accents.

Bond scholar Steven Jay Rubin thought Niven perfectly cast as the retired Bond, and saw him as "a throw-back to the hell-for-leather adventure heroes" of the character, which paralleled Niven's own life and career.

A thousand years ago, Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings, was written, capturing the tragedies and joys of the human existence with its wonderful tales of love, loss, deception, adventure, heroes, and anti-heroes.