The pro-war side has the heroic profile, the moral certainty, the geopolitical washboard abs buffed by years in the ideological weight rooms of conservative think tanks.
Show them no pity"—for the tabloids to applaud, and eloquent enough—"We go to liberate, not to conquer"—for the quality press to compare him to Henry V and Churchill. Lieutenant-Colonel Collinss heroic profile may be among the many reasons why British public opinion has shifted so sharply (see chart).
The New Yorker, March 18 , 1985P. 35 A young woman writes: "Washington has always seemed to me to offer one, essentially heroic profile...until...the end of a recent stay I never really felt at ease there: I never really felt moved by it..
Mr. Washington brought a queasy erotic charge to his character's violence that seemed intended to erase every last trace of his stoic, heroic, Poitieresque profile in films like "Philadelphia" and "Remember the Titans".
He liked to take self-portraits, holding the camera out at arm's length – we got a lot of the artist's heroic chin and profile, and some striking nudes (Munch again, sucking in his tummy).
-- From a Village Voice profile of heroic young New Yorkers at this week's economic protests in Washington.
He boasts of his many sexual conquests, and he sings the praises of his own beauty: his Greek profile, his heroic height, his sensual lips.
EnCorps Educators are a heroic group, trading high-profile and lucrative professional careers for less visible work in disadvantaged classrooms.
The savvy Petraeus invited journalists everywhere, spawning the best kind of free publicity: profile after profile that portrayed him in heroic terms as a scholar-soldier always receptive to hard truths and willing to engage in self-criticism.
Featuring "Russian and Soviet Cuisine," this popular restaurant has décor to match: a bust of Lenin and an album of 78-r.p.m. records embossed with Stalin's profile, as well as heroic paintings of peasant life.
