Sentence examples for heroic conduct from inspiring English sources

For the spectator knows quite well that actual heroic conduct such as this would be impossible for him without pains and sufferings and acute fears, which would almost cancel out the enjoyment".

The immigration officials disputed this and said he voluntarily departed with the F.B.I. because he wanted "to join with his comrades in the glory of being tried for their heroic conduct and, God willing, to die for the cause," the ruling quoted them as saying.

Temeraire was particularly popular on her arrival, being the only ship singled out by name in Collingwood's dispatch for her heroic conduct.

If his pontificate is to be deemed a failure, it was a very Polish failure, on a vast, magnificent, heroic scale, conducted with zest and panache, comparable to those mythical Polish cavalrymen charging the German tanks in 1939.

Still, Maria Guleghina, the Lady Macbeth, erupts with volcanic sound, and the tenors Dimitri Pittas and Russell Thomas, as Macduff and Malcolm, offer exhilarating vocal heroics; James Levine conducts.

However, they do not seem on the information given to rise to the level of heroic or saintly conduct.

The standing ovation, went of course to the heroic Daniel Barenboim, who conducted for two hours 40 minutes without a bar's rest or a sip of water.

Sheriff Lee Baca of Los Angeles County said that emergency responders had conducted a heroic and "dignified" rescue effort and would be prepared for any future rail accidents.

The Sun King conducted a heroic and public struggle against an anal fistula — he underwent a hideous, well-documented operation — which was taken by the people of France as an example of his political fortitude.

Malher's division conducted several heroic attacks against the Austrian positions, but all failed.

Luchini, in a deft performance, almost renders his character's prissy demands and brushoffs heroic – the flourishes of a man busy conducting the ensemble of judicial impartiality.