Sentence examples for moral heroism from inspiring English sources
Moral courage and moral heroism are rare enough, but Malala Yousafzai's story is especially moving.
His moral heroism lies in his resilience in retreat, which allows him to remind us of our capacity to persevere.
But when Terry applauds the moral heroism of, say, Emilia in Othello, there is a double value.
Anyone who can maintain an expression of interest through nine series of Waking the Dead deserves recognition for a rare kind of moral heroism.
A deep sense of his mother's moral heroism seems to underlie his refusal to believe that cultured people are better, that "literature has anything to do with virtue".
More important, Thoreau's life, so fully expressed in his writing, has had a pervasive influence because it was an example of moral heroism and an example of the continuing search for a spiritual dimension in American life.
Henty, widely accused of xenophobia in his own lifetime, had a small renaissance in the 1990s among conservative American home-schoolers who apparently thought his books provided excellent moral lessons in heroism, patriotism and religious observance.
The problem with Davos is that it provides "a moral glow of heroism to people who should be begging for society's mercy for their role in breaking our social contract," said Giridharadas.
This is a society that mourns, naturally, its more than 40 soldiers who were killed, but at the same time hardens its heart and mind in the face of all the suffering and moral courage and heroism of the people we are attacking.
Back then, I don't remember thinking much about moral fire and social heroism.
Instead of howling around bonfires and turning stagecoaches into porcupines, they were figures of heroism and moral authority.
