Sentence examples for heroic devotion from inspiring English sources

His way of life describes an almost heroic devotion to ideas.

Non-waterproof mascara in a snowstorm: Heroic devotion to beauty or tragic mistake?

In the old as in the new world he was henceforth fated to become the instrument of further revolutions, and ere the close of his brilliant but ephemeral career in the land of his fathers, to atone amply for the errors and follies of his former life, by his chivalrous and heroic devotion in the cause of civil and religious freedom".

"Romantic constancy," "heroic victim," "devotion and chivalry," "true romantic hero" — these words are there, even in The New Yorker's snide assessments.

Heroic in their devotion to patients when they are at their best, surgeons inexplicably seem to transform when they are at their worst.

What used to seem a heroic sign of devotion now just seems tragic.

As we grew closer and closer to Kyle during these past agonizing weeks and observed a near-heroic level of devotion, our own ignorant musings melted away.

"The Sea of Trolls" conveys, more vividly than any textbook, the vikings' storied fatalism, their devotion to heroic death and to a savage afterlife in Valhalla.

One quarrel I'd pick with both Leopardi and Robert: "Except for moments of childhood wonder, a modern person does not possess the ancients' natural sentiments, their capacity to believe in deities, their embrace of illusions, or their devotion to heroic ideals.

Her devotions are heroic because she makes things better for children one day at a time.

But the irrelevance of this project makes Mr. Mann's quixotic devotion to it seem perversely heroic.