Sentence examples similar to plain heroism from inspiring English sources
redefines the nature of screen heroism". "High Plains Drifter" doesn't redefine the nature of American spaghetti westerns.
In the 11 minutes between the start of "Congress on Your Corner," and the first 911 call to the sheriff's office, at 10 11 a.m, there were moments of heroism, charity and just plain luck that might have avoided even greater carnage, as became clear Sunday when survivors shared stories of those harrowing moments.
Great managers are distinguished by something more than insight, integrity, leadership, and imagination, and that something more (part of it is tenacity; much of the rest is plain courage) bears a close resemblance to heroism.
The film made plain that the War of Independence, for all its heroism, involved a crime and, for many people, that implicit acknowledgment was impermissible for the public airwaves.
But it is, in fact, one of the clearest — and most troubling — lessons to be drawn from the Fukushima story: plain old luck, along with a colossal dose of heroism and quick-thinking, prevented the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns from wounding Japan even more thoroughly than they did.
"I am perpetually searching for meaning," he muses, "but what in fact is meaning?" He seems torn between marginality and heroism, as both "a refugee from birth" and a plain dealer who suffers for his sincerity.
Make it plain that, in him, abhorrence of the war of the moment is as true an expression of devotion to patriotic duty as heroism in uniform.
