Sentence examples for heroic with from inspiring English sources

The broadcast depicts the actions of the Algerian army as heroic, with repeated promptings by the interviewer for the former hostages to praise the military's actions.

But her image in that book is considerably less heroic, with some other figures, like a French photographer who was with her when she was kidnapped, complaining that she was "very arrogant and difficult to be around".

While the violence is horrifying, the encasing narrative is perversely "heroic", with corn-fed dialogue presented as solidly non-ironic, and images of the real-life combatants used to stirring, manipulative ends.

Anquetil, the so-called automaton, was in agony – but he would not yield, becoming more human and more heroic with every metre that he kept up with the exasperated Poulidor.

The First Quartet (1951), with an episodic 40-minute span, was by turns melancholy, discontent and heroic, with a final violin cadenza (played by Simin Ganatra) of melting beauty.

Everton were left in backs-to-the-wall mode but their defence bordered on the heroic, with the reserve goalkeeper, Jan Mucha, distinguishing himself with a stunning double save to deny Tevez and James Milner and then another intervention from the top drawer to thwart Pablo Zabaleta close in.

Though admittedly inexact and subjective, it combines the scope of heroic epic with the closeness of autobiography.

Heroics with honesty and humility and not a whiff of hokum.

The Rockies didn't need heroics with Jimenez on the mound -- just some early offense and four hits from Jason Giambi.

MAGIC 84, 76ERS 81 Hedo Turkoglu answered Philadelphia's late-game heroics with a big shot of his own.

After Harbhajan's heroics with the bat yesterday, Indian stock rose during the morning session as the tail wagged resolutely.