Sentence examples for archetypal hero from inspiring English sources

In it, he created an archetypal hero, Horace Smith, a high school English teacher.

Much of the credit can be given to Mr. Bauer's character, the archetypal hero of the counterterrorism age.

Like the archetypal hero of Dashiell Hammett's Maltese Falcon, Sam Spade, Porter's lesbian private eye heroine, Jill Fitzpatrick, is torn between passionate love and professional ethics.

In the case of his own archetypal hero, the hero's end seems merely the mirror image of his career, an oblivion of resignation or death that follows an oblivion of violence.

Too immature to make a sexual commitment, obsessed with death and terror, this archetypal hero of American fiction was first described in Leslie Fiedler's classic Love and Death in the American Novel (1960).

Robicheaux sees himself as a kind of archetypal hero (the overburdened Atlas comes to mind), and that serves to validate the acts of frenzied violence he's prone to commit when he gets his hands on a bad guy.

But Connelly has lately been making a big drama out of the fact that Bosch is fast approaching the department's mandatory retirement age, an indignity archetypal heroes don't normally have to deal with.

I wanted to portray a non-archetypal hero where you see him stumble and struggle every step of the way.

The archetypal noir hero, Quirke is a loner, a man with acquaintances rather than friends.

What has happened to the archetypal English hero of my childhood, the strong, silent man with the stiff upper lip?

His status as an archetypal local hero was symbolised by the Welsh flag stitched into the new boots he wore for the occasion.