Sentence examples for heroic idea from inspiring English sources
A more optimistic, heroic idea of trees as American monuments — natural versions of Europe's ancient cultural ruins — was picked up by later generations of Hudson River School artists.
But while white men ever since have embraced the heroic idea that they were independent individuals under attack by a government that catered to minorities, the reality has always been that Americans actually believe that the government has a key role to play in business regulation and social welfare.
As we stared at the huge cones in the distance, we gave up that heroic idea in favor of seeing wonders closer to the lodge.
The tears were shed not for the end of a glorious, heroic life but for the end of glorious, heroic ideas and hopes.
Astronomers say COBE signaled a transition in which heroic ideas about the universe began to be replaced by heroic data, as long-planned new telescopes and other instruments went into operation.
We have a moral obligation to be precise about what the problems in American education are — like subpar schools for poor and minority children — and to resist heroic ideas about what would solve them, if those ideas don't demonstrably do that.
His way of life describes an almost heroic devotion to ideas.
Still, the idea of heroic yet possibly ineffective design would have disturbed some of Ms. Antonelli's predecessors at MoMA.
Close to the heart of the Romantic ethos was the idea that heroic individuals could attain the freedom to make their own laws, in defiance of society.
Giant satellites collecting sunlight and beaming the energy to Earth as microwaves are an idea of heroic proportions, but enough sunlight gets through the atmosphere to make them irrelevant.
Long-out-of-print comics are reappearing one by one, as well; the vogue for tuxedoed hardcover editions of 12-cent newsprint oddities has thankfully reached Richard E. Hughes and Ogden Whitney's daffy little 1960s series "Herbie," which took the idea of heroic wish-fulfillment to its natural conclusion.
