Sentence examples similar to heroic akin to from inspiring English sources
War in these essays isn't dramatic or heroic, but something akin to rain in the British summertime, just a miserable backdrop against which the rest of life is played out.
The 1990's may well be remembered as a heroic age of Taiwanese art cinema, a period of creative ferment akin to the French New Wave of the late 50's and early 60's.
In "The Marriage Plot," Jeffrey Eugenides (whose virgin suicides were Catholic girls) used his hero's sojourn in India with Mother Teresa's nuns as mock-heroic counterpoint to the serious business of a depressed genius akin to David Foster Wallace.
To improve this narrative, combining a heroic character with a clear moral, or solution, could move this narrative from simple critique to something more akin to a forceful call-to-action.
No it's not akin to the treatment of Vietnam veterans, but Hayes' ambiguity about seeing soldiers killed in battle as heroic is unsettling nonetheless.
With eagerness akin to love,.
But I felt more akin to Estraven.
I felt very akin to him".
"They are akin to a political appendix.
It was akin to that ordeal".
