Sentence examples for moral hero from inspiring English sources

Wexler, however, turns the protagonist into an incipient moral hero, whose future course of action the ending leaves fascinatingly open.

The moral hero is a biologist, Barmin, a Siberian who lives with his daughter Lena at the lake.

H.W. becomes a victim of the oil rush, and Anderson drops Sinclair's moral hero, a Communist who organizes the oil workers.

Lacking evidence of abusive behavior on Carroll's part, we may deem him an odd kind of moral hero, quite apart from the literary glories that his obsession yielded.

Yet Kim's story remains one of unusual persistence and bravery in the face of death, and he will be remembered as a moral hero of modern Korea.

As seen through the eyes of the orphaned nephew he has taken in, McCrea's Josiah Grey is an isolated moral hero who anticipates Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird".

Where we had moral heroes, he can find none.

This comparison will aggravate many who, like me, hold up the Little Rock Nine as moral heroes.

They are moral heroes; they must not be made medical dupes.

Hit films such as "Erin Brockovich" have pitched downtrodden, moral heroes against the evil of faceless corporatism.

In particular, gentle moral heroes in cinematic cut-scene movies are often, in the next breath, killing enemy henchmen without a second thought.