Sentence examples for its heroic phase from inspiring English sources

"Israel's in its heroic phase," Friedman recalled.

At this point Mr. Samuelson's story enters its heroic phase: Ronald Reagan and Paul Volcker stepped onto the stage and seized control of history.

Even the British prime minister, David Cameron, who on Thursday said the G-20 was past its "heroic phase," called the forum essential.

It's music that winds up reconfiguring what a symphony might be at the end of the 20th century, by which time the form had been battered, bruised and contorted out of all recognition to its heroic phase in the late 19th century; and which does so, paradoxically, because it defies, ignores, or flat-out contradicts the conventions of symphonic discourse.

Death has never been a stranger in Mr. Eastwood's cinematic universe: the lone riders and taciturn gunmen that defined his heroic phase as an actor were frequently pitiless avatars of mortality, and the grave has often been the horizon toward which both the righteous and the wicked in his movies are drawn.

So, when the un-Clinton meets the un-Yeltsin tomorrow, post-cold-war diplomacy officially enters its post-heroic phase.

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Notwithstanding the many attractions of high theory as an intellectual pursuit, the heroic phase of "applied ethics" was short lived; indeed, it was practically stillborn.

This heroic phase helped precipitate the collapse of the Modern Movement by detaching architecture from the history of places and isolating its practitioners within the world of ideas.

Moreover, Mr. Muschamp also says that the "heroic phase" of Modernism -- exemplified by Brasilia and the United Nations headquarters -- "helped precipitate the collapse of the Modern Movement by detaching architecture from the history of places and isolating its practitioners within the world of ideas".

And she talks about how the "heroic phase" -- the "first phase following the shock of a shared trauma, when everyone is on his and her best behavior" -- quickly gave way to a "disillusionment phase, when people's anger often shows in outbursts of irritability".