Sentence examples for hero role from inspiring English sources

Belcher was no hero, role model or sympathetic figure.

Maybe the hero role will fall on Dustin Pedroia or Jacoby Ellsbury or Mike Napoli, or Jonny Gomes.

Matsui played the action hero role wonderfully by giving the fans who adored him for a decade the home run they wanted.

With MIA, two mighty machineries of hype – the quaint, lumbering rock critical process of nominating candidates for the hero role versus the lateral networks of online buzz – meshed perfectly.

James Sloan Pulborough, West Sussex Bill Nighy is right to say it's likely the Robin Hood tax is about to become a reality (A hero role for bankers?, 29 September).

His self-styled hyper-local hero role, however, contrasts with the "social cleansing" accusations that have been levelled at his administration – he has been accused of bulldozing the estates of poor people in favour of mixed-tenure developments for more wealthy residents.

Recently actors Colin Farrell, Clive Owen and James McAvoy have all tried out action hero roles for size, but they have hedged their bets with straight drama too.

David Oyelowo has said he treads "with caution" around the possibility of taking on super hero roles, as "it could become tougher for audiences to believe you in other roles".

"When you're born with a 10ft long face, you don't get hero roles," said Grant, reflecting on playing the villain – who in this case recruits an army of evil and hungry snowmen to carry out his plans.

"Unlikely as it seems to me, I've been doing a lot of action hero roles.

British actors have landed big-budget action hero roles like Batman Christian Balee) and Spiderman (Andrew Garfield) and even the leads in quintessential American stories like 12 Years a Slave and Selma (Chiwitel Ejiofor, and David Oyelowo and Carmen Ejogo).