Sentence examples for heroism like from inspiring English sources
That word, "heroism," like "leader" or "courage," is inadequate.
He is still young enough to believe that the glory can be restored, by acts of heroism like those of the Greeks at Thermopylae.
They don't tower over you, invoking the ideals of Classical Greece or the glories of Romantic heroism like the Lincoln Memorial.
Whenever the Hound edged towards heroism – like saving young Sansa Stark from sexual assault – it sparked off a new round of breathless fan fiction.
"It's been true heroism like I've never seen before," Coturri said.
"Acts of heroism like this were repeated over and over in the Lodz ghetto," said Geoffrey Brahmer, a Holocaust educator who spoke about the Lodz ghetto at the meeting.
As Bronislaw Geremek, another ghetto survivor, said once, he was "a hero who didn't like heroism".
The rest of the film is humdrum macho heroism – made, like Captain Phillips, with help from the US military.
For what real heroism looks like, check out the YouTube clip of the Saudi singer Shams Bandar telling a smoothly coiffed bonehead of a male interviewer exactly why the west is worth fleeing to.
But that's what heroism looks like.
Her Cordelia-like heroism is alien to the novel's plot and thus a moving but pointless anomaly.
