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Sentence count:224+11Posted:2017-02-09Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: boldbravechivalrouscourageousgallantstalwartvaliantSimilar words: asteroidvoicestoicchoicerejoiceadroitbroilerembroilMeaning: [hɪ'rəʊɪk]  n. a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter. adj. 1. very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale) 2. relating to or characteristic of heroes of antiquity 3. having or displaying qualities appropriate for heroes 4. of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope 5. showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort. 
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61. Fathers have so rarely done the nurturing that their attempts are either portrayed as heroic or summarily dismissed.
62. Kalin is not being pressured to make his next film about a heroic gay cop.
63. That would mean the resumption of the heroic and successful anti-motorway battles of the past two decades.
64. Nevertheless an heroic effort is being made to lick Expo into shape before Easter Monday.
65. Skillfully using bathos, he emptied the story of any heroic dimensions and converted it into farce.
66. This is a crusading, flamboyant Marxism, emphasising the role of the supposedly heroic and glamorous armed struggle.
67. It would, to Rab, be an heroic deed if the man had fought.
68. During the brief voyage Tom lived in a peculiar atmosphere of doom and of heroic, unselfish courage.
69. Given this ambivalence towards political authority, there is little scope in the United States for heroic leadership.
70. Feeling that combat was more heroic than art they sacrificed their creativity in this way.
71. The conventional format and heroic pose of the sitter are perfectly offset by the incongruity of the costume and title.
72. The strategy developed by the revolutionary populists reflected the same mixture of heroic struggle for the peasantry's cause and utopian illusions.
73. Peter de la Billiere, will no longer be welcome at the table of the heroic fighting force he once led.
74. Whereas discovering you have a lump which is non-cancerous and operable means you are lucky rather than heroic.
75. At times, by dint of heroic effort[sentencedict.com], the Elves achieved a breathing space and cleared their lands.
76. He had a rare gift for casting presidential power in heroic terms.
77. The tilted eyes of the others gives the doctor his heroic, questing mien, his humourless nimbus.
78. The crags along here are heroic, offering sections of exhilarating scrambling if you want to keep to the crest.
79. He grew up reading the tales and legends of heroic deeds.
80. Daisy, ever hopeful and optimistic, however, still made heroic efforts to win Perdita round.
81. Mozart's heroic brand of oratory is very different from Beethoven's much more robust variety.
82. Like anyone else, I read these stories and think, my, what heroic beasts.
83. Second,(www.Sentencedict.com) our victory in the Cold War has reduced the need to make our leaders into heroic figures.
84. Roubiliac gives a heroic view of the composer gazing into the heavens for inspiration.
85. It was a heroic effort to try to evaluate business units using some notion of market valuation.
86. The Reich chapter, by contrast, draws us away from individual heroic figures towards collective creativity.
87. The film is a warm tribute to the heroic pilots of C Division.
88. Heroic couplets, the typical verse form of the Augustan age, were brought to perfection by Alexander Pope.
89. Eventually, the heroic locals would make several killing mistakes, the final score would look bad.
90. Between the wars the idea of modern architecture was a heroic adventure which could actually improve man's condition.
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