Texas Tech (2-1, 0-1) added another touchdown later that was answered by a Texas field goal, but there would be no Crabtree-like heroics for the Red Raiders.
Rocks sit like heroic busts on a forest of metal pedestals.
If these sound like heroic attempts at self-consolation, that is because they are.
Since then, her byline has been on several exclusive articles under headlines like "Heroic Queens Nun Bags Flasher: Cops".
Mr. Wiley is known for paintings of young African-American men dressed in fashionable street wear posing against richly patterned backgrounds like heroic figures in Renaissance paintings.
But, as Hall details in this meticulously researched piece, Simon's methods were highly questionable and what looked like heroic determination begins to seem like a deeply misguided and narcissistic pursuit of answers at the expense of truth.
His long infatuation with her makes him seem even younger than he looks with his cowlick because Randism is a state of arrested adolescence, making its disciples feel like heroic teenagers atop a lofty mountain peak.
Yet, as a key player, it is inevitable that his account should in places read more like heroic than academic history, the harder questions of explanation and justification going unanswered.
The first instance was the show "Eternal Ancestors," in 2007, which, like "Heroic Africans," was organized by Alisa LaGamma, the museum's curator of the arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.
Those felt like heroic days for small presses and literary magazines, and Felice Picano, the founder of SeaHorse Press and one of the founders of Gay Presses of New York, was one of the most prominent and prescient of these publishers, giving a forum to the new gay literature and art.
The idea touted three years ago by David Cameron that holding a vote on Britain's place in Europe could ultimately enable the party to come together on the issue always sounded like heroic wishful thinking – a case of mistaking a sticking plaster for a cure.
