(a.) Of or pertaining to, or like, a hero; of the nature of heroes; distinguished by the existence of heroes; as, the heroic age; an heroic people; heroic valor.
(a.) Worthy of a hero; bold; daring; brave; illustrious; as, heroic action; heroic enterprises.
(a.) Larger than life size, but smaller than colossal; -- said of the representation of a human figure.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The performance of Italy and France kind of puts Ireland's heroic non-qualification in context," suggests Sean DeLoughry, giving everyone pause for thought.
(2) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
(3) Sudden cardiac death is frequently an unexpected first clinical manifestation of coronary artery disease and, despite heroic efforts, treatment of sudden death victims is frequently unsuccessful.
(4) The popular appeal of the "School Shield" program hinges on believing in heroics; good public policy depends on preventing the need for them.
(5) As part of Return of Forces to Germany 1990, a number of Second Armored Division soldiers participated in the heroic rescue of German and American civilians injured in a 32-vehicle crash on an autobahn in West Germany.
(6) The first unstable six years of his presidency may not have provided a heroic record, but his second term proved to be important in the restoration of democracy to his country.
(7) As a result of the blast, there were martyrs and wounded among our heroic armed comrades,” the military said.
(8) At a press conference held outside the temple on Sunday, Oak Creek police chief John Edwards said the "heroic actions" of the two officers "stopped this from being worse than it could have been", noting that many people had gathered for worship at the time of the attack.
(9) Such approaches, while often heroic and unusually creative in character, have limited the exportability of hardware or software products to the larger biomedical community.
(10) Consequently, the assumption or normative postulate of a 'rational' (scientific) risk assessment and risk management appears to be utterly heroic and, in the end, misleading.
(11) Point one read: “Create the rebirth of heroical behavioural ideals of an artist-intellectual… the artist as romantic hero, who prevails over evil.
(12) It is part horror-show, part cautionary tale, and partly heroic example.
(13) Manufacturing is weak and weakening ; the employment gap between the rich and the poor is the widest on record ; the economic recovery is actually more like an extended stagnation with 12 million people unemployed; the housing "recovery" will be stalled as long as incomes are low and house prices are high ; and quantitative easing as a stimulus, while a heroic independent effort by the Federal Reserve, is past its due date and is no longer improving the country's fortunes beyond the stock market .
(14) And I think Chinese media are going to play it out in a very heroic way."
(15) Yet there was heroic virtue in the man, in the way he answered the demands of his day job as a civil servant and then devoted what ought to have been free time for his own work to responding to the work of others.
(16) The diplomats told Washington that certain themes in American movies seemed to appeal to the Saudi audience: heroic honesty in the face of corruption (George Clooney in Michael Clayton), supportive behaviour in relationships (an unspecified drama that was repeated during an Eid holiday featuring an American husband dealing with a drunk wife who smashed cars and crockery when she wasn't assaulting him and their child), and respect for the law over self-interest (Al Pacino and Robin Williams in Insomnia).
(17) And then there's her heroically blunt songs, such as You're Gonna Die Soon , performed to a group of octogenarians.
(18) Comrades from the heroic anti-colonial days retired, drifted away or were pushed out – in the case of President Devan Nair in 1985, after a humiliating allegation of alcoholism that he contested.
(19) On Tuesday Khamenei used the expression "heroic leniency", which is being interpreted as a euphemism for a softer stance on foreign policy.
(20) "This heroic gesture by Hazara families [in Quetta] has inspired ordinary citizens and Pakistan's scared civil society to come out and be counted and basically put an end to terrorism.
Paladin
Definition:
(n.) A knight-errant; a distinguished champion; as, the paladins of Charlemagne.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paladin Energy, which mines uranium in Malawi and Namibia (the largest sources of uranium oxide, or "yellowcake", after Kazakhstan, Canada and Australia), has warned that if the price stays depressed, supply will dip by 25% by 2020.
(2) Laura Richards is founder of the Paladin National Stalking Advocacy Service.
(3) I like to think of Childe Roland, the paladin whose journey to the Dark Tower forms the basis of my new book The Broken King , as on the fringes of the Arthurian court: perhaps he pricked past Arthur on the plain, had a friendly joust, and galloped off again, his helm glinting in the sunlight.
(4) Laura Richards, chief executive of Paladin, which supports stalking victims , welcomed the guidance but said: "Specialist led training is vital and the lack of investment in prosecutors' training to date has resulted in many of our victims being continually let down and put further at risk.
(5) In my work as the chair of Paladin , the national stalking advocacy service, and in my role as a solicitor specialising on stalking, I see so many victims being treated equally appallingly on a regular basis.
(6) Not many things shock me because we see so much at Paladin National Stalking Advocacy Service , but the situation Lily Allen found herself in is disgraceful.
(7) In fact, by the late 1960s Frost was already making programmes with his own production house, David Paladine Ltd (Paladine was his middle name), again pioneering something now common in TV.
(8) The efficacy was evaluated according to the criteria of Paladine et al.
(9) Laura Richards of the stalking advice service Paladin has called stalking “murder in slow motion”.
(10) In an ideal world there would be no need for charities such as Paladin or lawyers like myself trying to plug the gaps in the criminal justice system, but we are a very long way from this.
(11) Lily does have the means and the wherewithal and she was hugely resilient, but advocacy within the system is needed, and that’s what Paladin is for.
(12) • Tina, not her real name, has been supported by the advice service Paladin which supports high-risk victims of stalking.
(13) Craving intellectual and political prestige, the DIY jihadists receive helpful endorsements from the self-proclaimed paladins of the west, such as Michael Gove, Britain’s leading American-style neocon.
(14) The Women’s Equality party has taken up Paladin’s campaign for a serial stalkers “register and order”, which would place positive obligations on the perpetrator rather than simply waiting for his next victim to make a complaint.