Sentence examples for grim hero from inspiring English sources

This grim hero of "24," the Fox television drama, regularly races the clock to vanquish terrorists, block assassinations and stave off catastrophe.

He is the grim anti-hero of the GOP, a cross between Richard Nixon and Batman.

As our grim-jawed hero seeks the inner sanctum of the eponymous syndicate, one ravishing location cues another, like so many time-stalling clues on a treasure map.

By the beginning of "Finest Hour," things are looking grim for our hero.

You can't help feeling Willis should have used those comic gifts more in his subsequent movie career, instead of gurning his way from one gutsy grim-faced action hero to another.

The young hero's grim circumstances seemed to mirror my own predicament.

The industrial accident that leaves Max in need of the kind of health care you can only get on Elysium apparently also turns him into a grim and one-dimensional hero.

In that golden age of darts, when the sport was swept from its pub origins to become a gladiatorial televised spectacle second only to soccer, he was a favourite on both sides of the border: the "wee hero" from grim grey Kirkcaldy, tiny and round, with a broad pasty face, a wide smile and a pint of lager in his hand.

When compared to Converge's similar previously released-tracks, (No Heroes's "Grim Heart/Black Rose" and Jane Doe's "Jane Doe") Dillon claimed that the song "never builds to anything" and "cuts off seemingly just as it should've started".

These few, who refer to themselves as "the disciples," await their hero with the grim determination of Pentecostals counting down the days until rapture.

If there is no improvement at Tottenham, Bruce faces the possibility of being sent down on the final day by Manchester United, a grim scenario for an Old Trafford hero.