What is "heroic"

Usage examples of "heroic".

But their wants soon reduced them to stock-raiding and other predatory practices, with the result that in the end the whole countryside made common cause against them, and so the last phase of the fratricidal struggle deteriorated into a man hunt away in the backblocks north of Perth and the southern districts, full of heroic incidents, but devoid of historical interest except as far as serving, by reason of its sordidness and cruelty, to extinguish thoroughly any lingering sympathy which the coastal population might still cherish for the lost cause of Western Australia.

Among the events of that disastrous night, the heroic, or rather desperate, courage of John, one of the principal officers of Basiliscus, has rescued his name from oblivion.

Tracey was probably making the rounds, telling all the chits stories of his heroic deeds in the Peninsula.

It consists in the elevated, heroic, or historical theme, academic form well drawn, some show of bright colors, smoothness of brush-work, and precision and nicety of detail.

Jack is drawn toward occasions of existential self-fashioning, heroic moments of vision in a commodified world.

The story is not without a certain bitter irony, however, for Gorgo, who may be considered the first woman cryptanalyst, in a way pronounced a death sentence on her own husband: Leonidas died at the head of the heroic band of Spartans who held off the Persians for three crucial days at the narrow pass of Thermopylae.

Faithful gives an engrossing picture of the heroic men and dogs involved in the battle to recapture the island of Guam during WWII.

We would see that the dogs were properly placed on night security duty and go on all patrols, to make sure that the handlers called on the troops that supported them to engage the enemy wherever possible rather than putting themselves and the dogs at risk with unnecessary heroics.

All personnel will divert their energy and experience to a successful detraining and rehabilitation program so that the Marine War Dogs of World War II will continue to be regarded with the sincere high respect and admiration for their valorous and heroic deeds which they have contributed to the defeat of the enemy of the United Nations.

Whatever desperate enterprize kindled the young Spaniards to heroic frenzy, found the English pair among their numbers.

Lastly the goddess endows him with trembling fear: that heroic son of Autonoe flees, astonished to find himself so swift a runner.

The very hour of the trial, when this unfortunate, heroic girl is thrown entirely on herself--wounded by her absolute friendlessness, yet disdaining to complain.

Surely you did not imagine for one minute that I would demean myself by entering into the mock heroics and absurd gunplay of an ancient Western.

Odysseus meets the shades of his comrades Agamemnon and Achilles in Hades, Iliadic material is avoided: Agamemnon tells the story of his death at the hands of his wife and her lover, Odysseus tells Achilles about the heroic feats of arms of his son Neoptolemus and later talks to Ajax about the award of the arms of Achilles.

But the spirit of the time -- the industrially heroic time in which we live -- is opposed to these retirements, these handings over of life to footmen.