Sentence examples for time of heroes from inspiring English sources

Ours is not a time of heroes, and perhaps we are the better for it.

That morning, he was quoted in The New York Times thusly: "We're not living any more in a time of heroes….

In the time of Hero (probably 1st century ad), a simple jet-type compressor was used to provide air for smelting and forging.

"This is a time of clear heroes, clear villains," said Daniel Silva, the author of "The Unlikely Spy".

The Time Of The Hero made him famous overnight.

The one-time Peruvian presidential candidate has been a leading Latin American voice since his 1963 breakthrough novel The Time of the Hero.

The school provided the setting for Vargas Llosa's first novel, "The Time of the Hero" (1962), the story of cadets who demonstrate all manner of gross, and even murderous, cruelty.

His work found an international audience in the 1960s with the publication of "The Time of the Hero," a novel based on a Peruvian military academy that aroused some controversy in his home country.

La ciudad y los perros (1963; The Time of the Hero), by Vargas Llosa, won the prestigious Seix Barral Prize in Spain and centres on the brutal life of cadets in a military school.

"La Ciudad y los Perros", whose poorly chosen title in English is "The Time of the Hero", is a clammily claustrophobic fictional account of the author's unhappy experience as a teenager in Lima's Military College.

(His first novel may have reached English-language readers as "The Time of the Hero," but in Spanish it was "La Ciudad y Los Perros" — "The City and the Dogs").