Sentence examples for heroic assertion from inspiring English sources
In the real world, America seems to have lost its taste for heroic assertion.
Ignoring their instructions thus becomes a heroic assertion of liberty, a way of striking out against illegitimate and arrogant authority.
Like many other Abstract Expressionists, Still saw the act of painting as a heroic assertion of being and freedom in an age still recovering from the impact of World War II (1939 45).
And that's exactly why, in this context, smoking becomes an oddly heroic gesture, an assertion of personality in the impassive face of fate.
It also requires, for us to see such acts as heroic, getting past the language of masculinity and assertion that had entrapped both the prisoners who took hostages and then the guards who would kill them.
Such erasure of massive crimes continues in the assertions that the Colombian military is "heroic" and its expertise should be exported to police and military forces in Central American and Caribbean countries.
His acts of self-assertion, while generally rude and frequently disastrous, are nonetheless heroic.
Such examples are heroic.
Stella thought him heroic.
