Sentence examples for hero up from inspiring English sources

He suggested that Mr Polly did not succeed popularly at the time because "I was a blue-eyed hero up to then and audiences hated seeing me as a little wizened chap with smarmed hair, being a henpecked husband.

Heroes just grit their teeth and get on with the job.' 'And they tend to die early.' 'You looking for immortality?' 'Maybe I'm just not a hero.' 'Better hero up fast then: this is no time to show the white feather, OK? Let's do this thing already.' 'We've been getting some curious glances from passers-by.

But, as anyone who remembers when John Kerry went from war hero up by double digits to alleged war criminal who lost the election knows, political smear campaigns are not known for being fair.

Paul Simon sang that every generation throws a hero up the pop charts and, at this moment in time, he might be talking about Ke$ha, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga or Taylor Swift.

The thrill, the glamour, the sheer difference of the racing world to my own appealed immensely to me, as did the "lonely hero up against a host of more powerful enemies" theme which seemed to be part of them all.

TO paraphrase Paul Simon, every generation sends an action hero up the box office charts, whether it was the swashbuckling Douglas Fairbanks in the silent era, the stoic John Wayne midcentury, the hip Steve McQueen in the 1960s and '70s, or the musclebound Sylvester Stallone in the '80s.

For the hometown fans, the nicest part of the day came when they got to eyeball their heroes up close.

When Franklin gets to see his pro football player heroes up close, they're flinging eggs at the bus in which he and the other scabs are traveling.

He recites the key lyrics -- "Don't lift your heroes up so high / That you can't touch" -- in the swelling chorus.

Our hero walks up the wall.

A hero stepped up at the end in a proverbial cape (LeBron James).