Sentence examples for heroic exploit from inspiring English sources

"Ending 70 years of dictatorship will be a great heroic exploit for Mexico," he said, "something like when you Americans put a man on the moon.

12): Would the raging steward Steven Slater have received top international coverage for his "heroic" exploit if it had occurred in Tokyo, or even Paris, rather than in New York, the media capital of the world?

Poetry served to transmit all the traditional wisdom, which combined two currents: the ethic of the citizen expressed in the moralizing elegies of the 6th-century lawmaker Solon and the old Homeric ideal of the value of competition and heroic exploit.

A monument by the sculptor John Evan Thomas was erected in 1843 by public subscription in St Mary's Church, Shrewsbury, commemorating Benbow as "a skillful and daring seaman whose heroic exploits long rendered him the boast of the British Navy and still point him out as the Nelson of his times".

In retrospect, various heroic exploits now seem more dubious.

Most of Mr. Thor's books are yarns about the heroic exploits of Special Operations troops.

The men strove to be individualistic warriors and boasted of their heroic exploits.

It is mostly through valour and heroic exploits that the typical hero's personality is realized.

But he saw its roots in the former congressman's heroic exploits as a fighter pilot.

He frames every match as if he's Homer discussing Odysseus' latest heroic exploits, only in the first person.

Mexican drug smuggling has long had a musical component, most famously ballads about traffickers' heroic exploits known as narcocorridos.