In hypnotic style, White Tears punctures the fantasy of a white male musical hero championing black artistic traditions, uncovering a dark and ugly underbelly.
Taking inspiration from Howard's "Black Colossus" and "A Witch Shall be Born", Stone proposed a story, four hours long, in which the hero champions the defense of a princess's kingdom.
He becomes a bandit-hero, championing the landless poor against their corrupt oppressors.
They're heroes, championing the cause of good grammar at their own expense.
The revolutionaries who won the war were heroes, champions of freedom standing up against an oppressive, murderous Ethiopian regime backed by the Soviet Union and tacitly supported by the West.
I guess every county has their cult heroes, their champions of the grandstands.
Individuals within a company are held up as heroes who championed key ideas, fought bureaucracies, and instituted significant changes.
He also took on Marvel in a landmark lawsuit to claim ownership of his web-footed anti-hero and championed the cause of comic creators' rights.
The directors who have taken their place — the Nokia and ExxonMobil executives, a banker from Wachovia — are not the Silicon Valley heroes Perkins championed but managers from large public companies, exactly the kind of director sought by Dunn.
