Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen — who all fought in the trenches and, in the last two cases, died there — remained tied to the conventions of the nineteenth century while trying to convey the unprecedented horror of industrial warfare, a condition of existence so murderous and absurd that a romantic or heroic attitude became impossible.
The Socialists, the largest single party in France before the armistice, defend most of their party record, & the heroic attitude of Leon Blum since his arrest, especially at the Rion trial, Blum, like Eouard Herriot, has become a martyr in his own lifetime.
Lorieux reflected on the challenge of dancing Ali, whom he characterized as "a really strong guy, with mind-blowing energy and a heroic attitude".
Psychological gratification and a heroic attitude about their ability and competence to creatively and persistently solve problems and care for their patients without having to depend on a colleague's help, causes many nurses to workaround rather than employ second order problem solving [ 24].
Such optimistic, heroic attitudes may seem incompatible with a tragic view of the world; indeed, Corneille provides the key to his originality in substituting for the traditional Aristotelian emotions of pity and fear a new goal of admiration.
Comedy, by contrast, embodies an anti-heroic, pragmatic attitude toward life's incongruities.
Call it heroic hypocrisy — an attitude, long popularly associated with medical practice, that exalts certain vocations to shield them from moral taint.
For him, blues music, with its demands for improvisation, resilience and creativity, is at the heart of American identity -- it represents the heroic and affirmative attitude toward life that is, in his view, the genuine legacy of slavery.
Does this reflect what Fox and Swazey described as the ethos of the transplant physician, which involves a heroic, pioneering, optimistic attitude and a refusal to accept limits [ 4]? Does it also reflect a division between transplant surgeons, who are mostly concerned with organ recipients, and internal medicine physicians, who focus on organ donors (living or deceased)?
The effect is less one of attitudes becoming form than one of form becoming, in the sense of enhancing, attitudes of heroic initiative.
It is not an angry or despairing indictment... though without Vietnam and the bitter films it inspired, "Saving Private Ryan" would not have been thinkable... "Saving Private Ryan" honors the dead and the survivors of Normandy, not by showing them in attitudes of heroic glory but by acknowledging the terror and sadness to which duty and happenstance delivered them.
