(1) Where the most heroic character in the piece also happens to enjoy sadistic torture it's never going to be cheery and relentlessly upbeat, is it?

(2) Dutt's heroic deed on the set of Mother India changed the course of his life.

(3) The project stemmed from a critical look at the tradition of heroic , nationalistic exposition architecture.

(4) The massive and heroic piece was designed to be placed on top of the cathedral, but the city officials decided to place it in a more visible location.

(5) The complete dominance of the composition by the figures, themselves projected on so heroic a scale, was a major influence on the course of High Renaissance art.

(6) This heroic , nationalist saga has been recapitulated in hundreds of books, articles, and school-texts ever since.

(7) He writes of the attempt to create a new myth around the heroic individual.

(8) She gives her character's heroic fantasies about the scoundrel Earnest an honest dignity without becoming farcical.

(9) I do not mean to suggest that every heroic act must represent some form of collusion between the will of the achiever and the finger of God.

(10) His new work for the Commons at Metro Tech is based upon the traditional heroic monument.

(11) They bring the highfalutin heroic language back down to earth and make it palatable.

(12) With his Eroica symphony he inaugurated what is often known as his heroic style, producing a work of unprecedented scale and power.

(13) The heroic Greece of the Homeric poems is already a Greece fragmented into independent city-states.

(14) Kit's lunchbox is decorated with WPA-style heroic locomotives.

(15) But it was not the grand heroic altarpieces that gave the show its real soul.

(16) It must have been during the Dark Age that heroic poetry developed and spread, even if (as seems probable) it originated in the Mycenaean age.

(17) Otherwise, his talent for timing, body language, and heroic drama are as solid as ever.

(18) Plucky firefighter Mark Murphy is back home from his heroic mission to help rescue people trapped in the Algerian earthquake.

(19) Written in heroic couplets, many are elegies or stress the theme of Christian salvation.

(20) Every single one of them represents a heroic defeat.