Sentence examples similar to tainted hero from inspiring English sources
Sometimes they were tainted heroes, sometimes not.
When in the 1850s the Polish scholar Jan Baranowski discovered Copernicus's letter to the previous bishop apologizing for lodging a woman overnight, he suppressed it, not wishing to taint his hero with the slightest whiff of scandal.
In reacting to news that their cherished heroes are tainted, the court of public opinion has transitioned through phases of denial, anger, and acceptance of reality.
Lezard's disappointment struck a chord, however, and readers were soon reminiscing about other childhood heroes who'd been tainted by a big-screen adaptation.
This is also good for men looking to hero-worship Greg — there's no chance of Greg being tainted by other men or of Greg unwittingly hurting someone he interacts with.
Lead single "What Do You Mean?" tells of a courtship tainted by a female who simply cannot make up her mind, while our innocent hero suffers from good-hearted confusion.
The reception of "Stromboli" in the United States was tainted by the scandal; its reception elsewhere, as in Europe, where Rossellini was an artistic hero of the first rank, was tainted by Bergman.
He was tainted and exhausted.
