Sentence examples for false heroism from inspiring English sources
Then we find it was the experience of war, and the guilt of false heroism and all kinds of stuff that made him somewhat of a recluse.
The weaving narrative that follows is handled with great skill; its explorations of false heroism and the realities of war wouldn't look out of place in a Terrence Malick film.
Judge Daniels added that those who seek to destroy lives and property "can only attack and destroy the freedoms we cherish if we give in to hysteria and blindly turn on one another wrongly motivated by prejudicial stereotyping, misguided patriotism or false heroism".
Whatever the reasons, it is extremely worrisome for Canadian society that "baby-boomer" parents who grew up as disciples of the slogan of the 60's and 70's of "Make Love, Not War!" are raising children hungry for false heroism who are identifying themselves with foreign ethnic radicalism and carrying out extremist attacks inside and outside the country's borders.
Many conservative writers have accused Williams of "stolen valour" - a charge levelled at individuals who make false claims of war heroism in order to bask in the resulting adulation and privileges.
As far as the latter's failure with the voters was concerned, I suspect that his allusions to his own heroism in the Democratic convention ("reporting for duty") struck a false note.
There is scope for heroism then but the image of Ince channelling his inner Terry Butcher gives a slightly false impression of that night 18 years ago at the Stadio Olimpico.
To focus so exclusively on their heroism that we neglect their humanity amounts to hero worship rather than admiration, and propagates false masculine ideas up to which no one can measure.
