Sentence examples for heroic exploits from inspiring English sources

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.

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

Folk epics, known as cantares de gesta ("songs of deeds") and recited by jongleurs, celebrated heroic exploits such as the Cid's.

"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.

I read about his legendary -- heroic -- exploits off the diamond, too.

After heroic wartime exploits (his Victoria Cross is modestly blurred as simply "the great medal") he has spent two years trekking across China to look at the effects of modern war on an ancient society.