Sentence examples for on heroic dimensions from inspiring English sources

Love takes on heroic dimensions in the songs of Melissa Etheridge.

While its true that vice presidents have rarely taken on heroic dimensions in the American narrative, their role seems to have grown in real life while shrinking in the popular imagination.

Photography, in everything from 19th-century immigrant snapshots to the battlefield photographs of Matthew Brady, elevated the experience of everyman to heroic dimensions.

In recent decades, as this opera has gained a rightful place in the repertory, Idomeneo has been taken on by powerhouse tenors who emphasize the heroic dimensions of the role as conceived by Mozart.

So "Mars," which gradually assumed heroic dimensions, was the perfect showcase in more than one sense.

His version of Mr. Carter has heroic dimensions, but with a weary common-man lilt.

Two other themes in this exhibition might also have been thought to weaken its heroic dimensions but end up having another effect.

Her earthly prison, part of a desolate Teton-like range conceived with brilliance by Tom Pye (set) and Jean Kalman (lighting), has heroic dimensions.

Mr. Begley's burnished, sizable voice lent a heroic dimension to the captain's torment.

But there is a heroic dimension to the music that Mr. Domingo convincingly projects.

My Lives by Edmund White 356pp, Bloomsbury, £17.99 Gay lives today, at least in most western democracies, have lost their heroic dimension.