Sentence examples for heroic narratives from inspiring English sources

Other heroic narratives are fragmentary.

That isn't sexy, but it's truer than the heroic narratives that fill "The Star Machine," exemplified by chapter titles like "Disillusionment" (Tyrone Power), "Disobedience" (Lana Turner and Errol Flynn) and "Defection" (Deanna Durbin and Jean Arthur).

His thesis is that even in a morally clear, entirely just and necessary conflict like World War II, civilian suffering was tremendous, much greater than our standard heroic narratives of the war tend to indicate.

Heroic narratives partially recovered include Los siete infantes de Lara ("The Seven Princes of Lara"), El cerco de Zamora ("The Siege of Zamora"), Bernardo del Carpio, and other themes from Castile's feudal history, subject matter that echoes remote Visigothic origins rather than French epics.

The officially recognized number of Russian military personnel killed in Syria is small forty-six people and the deaths the state has publicly acknowledged have tended to come with heroic narratives, such as that of the Russian fighter pilot who blew himself up with a hand grenade as ISIS fighters encircled him when his plane was brought down over Syria, earlier this month.

Moreover, this is where terrorists attempt to suppress the realities and horrors of war and replace them with fantasy and heroic narratives [9].

John McCain comforts the classic heroic narrative.

Was the heroic narrative of World War II entirely false?

It creates a solid heroic narrative around an awful lot of aesthetic and spiritual information.

Bylina, plural byliny, traditional form of Old Russian and Russian heroic narrative poetry transmitted orally.

This, too, is a heroic narrative, but it's a heroism of defense.