Sentence examples for half a hero from inspiring English sources
In other words, half a hero is no hero.
His film credits include "Just This Once" (1952), "Half a Hero" with Red Skelton (1953), "The Affairs of Dobie Gillis" with Debbie Reynolds and Bobby Van (1953), "The Gene Krupa Story" (1959), "Critic's Choice" with Bob Hope and Lucille Ball (1963) and "Billie" (1965), starring Patty Duke, for which he also served as producer.
For New York boss Jason Kreis, he had seen his team on the back foot for much of the game, struggling to get out of their half for long stretches and with Saunders – bleeding from a head wound after a nasty clash with the goalpost in the first half – a bloodied hero between the sticks.
Torres returned to Atlético seven and a half years on, a hero gratefully heading home and determined to repay them.
He died as a hero," Half Jadhe Half Kyuk wrote on the KenyaList.com message board.
"Hans My Hedgehog" features a hero — half-boy, half-hedgehog — who is so vexed with a young woman who refuses to marry him that he takes off her beautiful clothes and pricks her with his quills until she bleeds.
When the Republican congressman from South Carolina shouted out "You lie!" to the world's most powerful man during Obama's recent health care reform speech, half the world was appalled at the rudeness -- and the other half [presumably the less-mannered half] fawn him a hero, to the tune of $1 million in campaign funds culled in just one week.
A century and a half of hero worship has left Bolívar's real legacy shrouded in layer after layer of mythology.
After proving he could effectively juggle half a dozen heroes in 2012's "The Avengers," writer-director Joss Whedon drops even more characters into this blockbuster sequel.
The play was written in 1959, but no French producer would risk it during the Algerian war, since it's main male character, Said the Arab, was a half local hero half traitor who sold out to the French.
He understood, as Bogart did before him, that a half-reluctant hero, with a fondness for cash payments, is sexier and more plausible than any pink-cheeked enthusiast who gets turned on by the dream of doing good.
