Sentence examples for shining hero from inspiring English sources

In the bizarre world of big-time college sports, one university's castoff coach is often another's shining hero.

At Pennsylvania Station, I carried the shining hero under one arm up the escalators to Seventh Avenue without receiving so much as a glance from a passer-by.

He died unknown, at age 37, and you suspect he will always be a shining hero not only to people who worship art but to those who feel their own talents remain insufficiently acknowledged by their peers — meaning, most everyone.

In telling the story of a figure canonized in the mediascape as an unsullied and shining hero, Eastwood looks past the media representation to seek the essence of heroism, shattering the shining heroic veneer and restoring its tragic nature through the looming terror of death.

Clint Eastwood's film pulls tragedy from the jaws of triumphalism and turns a shining hero into a horror-haunted obsessive; Berg's film turns heroes and survivors into hearts-and-flowers sentimentalists, and dilutes powerful, strange, and complex incidents into prepackaged prompts for fist pumps and hugs.

There are no shining heroes here, but the quietly frantic striving for tenderness comes off as a noble, doomed quest.

It's a kind of fiction, he suggests, uniquely suited to a country often shaped by "a symbiotic tension between a rigid, obsolescent order of values and a more 'modern,' disenchanted, pragmatic, and intellectually mobile emergent one exemplified by the observer(s)." The narrators are plain modern guys, and they look in wonder at the shining archaic hero.

But about that Philly offence: If the Penguins-Flyers series was some kind of glimpse into the apocalyptic future of hockey where all is a dry, sandy moonscape dotted with arenas here and there, Claude Giroux would probably emerge the shining archetype hero who would remind us all what we'd lost and suddenly right the world again.

Vidal does not present him as a shining progressive hero.

You're talking playwrights,you got Mamet, you got Shakespeare.. He's up there with the boys, but even for a David Mamet script, you just can't get the money.' Neither Self nor Edmund will make shining cinema heroes.

Even better, Lady Murasaki set much of the amorous action involving her decadent hero, the "Shining Prince," in the mansions and palaces of Heian-kyo, as Kyoto once was called.