Pixar's 13th title is its first with a female lead, and with its heroic themes focusing on a rebellious, bow-wielding girl, voiced by the Trainspotting supporting actress Kelly Macdonald, some suggest it may even be a feminist epic.
His conviction and his commitment to the club is unquestionable, his selflessness and his single-minded focus heroic.
Where Chandler, like Hammett, centered most of his novels and stories on the character of the private eye, Cain featured less heroic protagonists and focused more on psychological exposition than on crime solving; the Cain approach has come to be identified with a subset of the hardboiled genre dubbed "noir fiction".
The focus on heroic leadership, key traits, and self-justification in leadership development within business schools arises due to the assumption that captains of industry must control, rather than liberate, people and nature.
But after the victory over Irish, that perhaps inevitably failed to reach the heights of Wasps' recent European heroics, Young preferred to focus on the collective.
These boys are focused and heroic.
"And in the media there's been a lot of focus on the heroic side.
The publisher said that the book would again focus on the heroic Harvard professor Robert Langdon and would chronicle his adventures "in the heart of Europe," where he "is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces".
"The goal there is to take what you have and bring an age-relevant message, which is to get away from the battle and the fighting and focus on the heroic nature of Transformers," said Jay Duke, global vice president for the Transformers brand at Hasbro.
Rather than foster an urban form that demands heroic survival, perhaps we should focus on ways to create cities that offer a more healthful and even pleasant life for their citizens.
