Sentence examples for heroic determination from inspiring English sources

Onscreen, Lane has a masklike dissatisfaction and a heroic determination to cheer herself up.

What linked them together, Wilkerson writes, was their heroic determination to roll the dice for a better future.

"King Gimp," an Academy Award-winning portrait of an artist with cerebral palsy, bluntly recorded his perpetual motion and sputtering as well as his heroic determination.

The No 10 line is that Blair didn't blink and, confronted by his heroic determination, everyone else, including the Brownites, was forced back into line.

But, as Hall details in this meticulously researched piece, Simon's methods were highly questionable and what looked like heroic determination begins to seem like a deeply misguided and narcissistic pursuit of answers at the expense of truth.

In Juliet's struggle with her parents, who are determined to marry her off to the wealthy, aristocratic Paris, Van Patten conveys the fragility of Juliet as well as her heroic determination.

His heroic scientific determination and his adventurous spirit and love of people inspired Tomatis to live life to its fullest.

Coski, the historian at the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va., delves into the history of the St. Andrew's cross battle flag, which remains an emblem of heroic self-determination and has also served as the banner of white supremacy.

Ulysses is thus seen as an heroic character whose determination to seek "some work of noble note" (52) is courageous in the face of a "still hearth" (2) and old age.

Plus a liking for the classics and heroic characters, and a determination to survive.

Love her or loathe her, it is a heroic odyssey: her phenomenal determination and inexhaustibility, her combination of blazing certainty with intense practicality, leave the reader repeatedly awestruck.