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If something you do is heroic is like something a hero would do; it is very brave or difficult to do. To win while wounded was truly heroic. Though his efforts were heroic, his failure could not be avoided. If you are heroic you are a hero or like a hero; you do heroic things. The soldiers who fought in World War II were heroic men. If story or poem is heroic, it is about a hero or heroes doing great things. "Beowulf" is the best known heroic epic of early British literature. If a society is heroic it is at a stage where stories of great heroes are common and wars are won by single heroic warriors. This is often a society with tribes or technology is bronze age or iron age. Comparisons have been made between the heroic societies of ancient Greece and modern heroic societies such as the Zulu. A heroic age is a time when great heroes were said to have lived. This is often early in history. Homer's heroic age was hundreds of years before Homer live, around 1000 B.C.E.

heroic

(= epic) very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale) an epic voyage of heroic proportions heroic sculpture relating to or characteristic of heroes of antiquity heroic legends the heroic age having or displaying qualities appropriate for heroes the heroic attack on the beaches of Normandy heroic explorers (= expansive, grand) of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope an expansive lifestyle in the grand manner collecting on a grand scale heroic undertakings (= desperate) showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort made a last desperate attempt to reach the climber the desperate gallantry of our naval task forces marked the turning point in the Pacific war — G.C.Marshall they took heroic measures to save his life a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter

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He is heroic.
Tom is heroic.
Tom was heroic.
The heroic deed is an act of the man frightened to death.
Am I supposed to, single-handedly, strengthened only by the mythical magic of my forebears, in heroic fashion smash his armies and save the beautiful princess from his clutches to finally deliver him to.
Tom died a heroic death.

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You're being very heroic about something.
She has heroic stuff in her.
I'm neither noble nor heroic.
When you talk about it, you make it sound exciting and heroic.
Is he exciting and heroic too?
I'm not heroic. I don't think there's anything worse than death.
Your Occidental poet is won't to describe grand passions and heroic events.
So among Florida's heroic salvage masters. appear lawless captains. who plot to destroy, for their own profit. the great ships they are pledged to save.
Have you ever dreamed of Laura as your wife. by your side at the policeman's ball, or in the bleachers. or listening to the heroic story of how you got a silver shinbone. from a gun battle with a gangster?
I can be heroic if I must.
He was a man cast in heroic mold.
Your love affair with yourself has reached heroic proportions.
There were massed columns of Apaches in their war paint and feather bonnets and here was Thursday, leading his men in that heroic charge.
Then you'll be proud to know that you are making a heroic stand.
I had hoped to avoid bringing to court a brave young officer recently blinded in the course of heroic duty.
Everybody can't be simple and heroic, Aage.
Yes, it was heroic.
Heroic, is it?
Can they subsist upon laurel wreaths from your heroic brow?
Like a vision of Asian history, like an image from heroic Asian times, they ride along.
Or become a heroic martyr.
Have you ever dreamed of Laura as your wife, by your side at the policeman's ball, or in the bleachers, or listening to the heroic story of how you got a silver shinbone from a gun battle with a gangster?
And then this heroic boy actually went back into that awful darkness and somehow, some way, brought our Becky out to safety.
Summoned in the best heroic tradition by the faithful little cripple.
The most amazing, heroic thing so far. is that this man, Charles Dunnigan, is a traffic cop- just one of New York's average, hard-working traffic cops.
There's nothing heroic about selfishly grabbing for glory.
You're heroic.
You did a magnificent, heroic job.
You seem to have fulfilled your hunger for heroic deeds.
In these heroic times, it should be everybody's beverage.
Just what one needs to die a heroic death.
This joke can not compare his with the heroic escape of Lieutenant Zawistowski. but added a glorious story to the chronicles of our camp.
The Defense Department of the United States would like you to know that you heroic fighting men have not been forgotten.
And you Beta, foreigner to Venus, daughter of Ur, planet of shadows, you've been assigned as a companion to Gamma on this heroic quest.
If. no. when you win your victory tomorrow. presumably the survivors will be auctioned off. in order to pay for the expenses of this heroic expedition.

News and current affairs

It was an era of integration based on the heroic drive to reconcile post-war Germany and France and establish a Pax Europea, as well as the threatened expansion of the Soviet Union.
When Clinton came to office there was no need for heroic stabilization policies.
No state is static, and Israel has changed a great deal since the heroic decades after its founding in 1948.
Far from intimidating the Palestinians by bombing Gaza and mobilizing troops, the Israelis made Hamas look heroic in its resistance.
This would be a heroic task at the best of times, but more than heroic in the face of the hostility of several member states.
Rather than defending the truly heroic work of the UN, Malaysia's Government correctly called on the US to leave Iraq.
Even so, one effect of the traditional heroic warrior approach to leadership has been to support the belief that leaders are born rather than made, and that nature is more important than nurture.
Genetics and biology matter in human leadership, but they do not determine it in the way that the traditional heroic warrior approach to leadership suggests.
Most countries fabricate at least some of their history; or they simply whitewash the bits that do not match their heroic idea of themselves.
They gave themselves over to huge, dangerous, and heroic deeds.
Until recently, too, many Europeans believed in their kings and queens, flew their national flags, sang their national anthems, were taught heroic versions of their national histories.
But if the douceur of sports can channel aggressive passions into benign, if trivial pursuits, why should we deny our star performers their heroic stature?
This figure, calculated from the prices of different types of indexed and non-indexed five- and ten-year bonds, is based on the somewhat heroic assumption that all of the markets for these bonds work efficiently.
And can Aung San Suu Kyi, the heroic opposition leader, and Thein Sein, Burma's new president, engineer a political transition as skillfully and peacefully as Mandela and de Klerk did for South Africa in the early 1990's?
At least it's a recovery, they claim, and a sign of healing that can be attributed mainly to the heroic, unconventional efforts of the US Federal Reserve.
Even under the now seemingly heroic assumption that the eurozone will survive, the outlook for the European economy is bleak.
The shrug of Rand's heroic entrepreneurs is to be found today within the tangled ciphers of corporate and government balance sheets.
It may have a population of less than one million, but it has a proud, heroic history and a rich culture built up over centuries of diverse ethnic and colonial influences.
The officially prescribed musical diet of North Koreans consists of patriotic hymns to the Communist Party, odes to the Dear Leader, to his father, the Great Leader, Kim Il-Song, and to the heroic spirit of the Korean people.
The role of heroic leadership in war leads to overemphasis of command and control and hard military power.
The Global Fund has brightened the futures of hundreds of thousands of children across Africa and Asia - a heroic achievement that should make donor countries' citizens proud.
They were told that North Korea was a heroic little country besieged by Satanic enemies, led by the United States.
In modern societies, institutional constraints such as constitutions and impersonal legal systems circumscribe such heroic figures.

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