As with the English heroic, each couplet usually makes sense on its own, while forming part of a larger work.

In the symbolic sense, this is the implied rebirth of the spirit of the great and heroic nation of South Africa.

The character Gaston Lagaffe is often hailed as the first anti-hero ( in the sense of a protagonist lacking all heroic qualities, not a villain ) in the comic's history.

A staunch traditionalist, Londo has a profound sense of pride which is very heavily tied to the heritage of the Centauri imperial history, when the republic was a vast empire with tremendous influence across the known galaxy ; Londo himself was once a military officer with several heroic accomplishments, which he relishes and often reminisces when intoxicated.

A French contemporary, lacking the term " Baroque ", said, " In his time the art of painting began to be practiced here in a nobler and more beautiful way than ever before ," and the allegory of " Riches " left demonstrates a new heroic sense of volumes, a breadth and confidence without decorative mannerisms.

Unlike many of his Victorian predecessors, Hermann was no fan of horned helmets and the Boy's Own view of the heroic north: his translations are characterised by common sense and accessibility – in the jargon of modern translation studies, he was a domesticator rather than a foreigniser.

In other words, while Milton's Satan embodies a spirit of rebellion, and, as Maud Bodkin claims, " The theme of his heroic struggle and endurance against hopeless odds wakens in poet and reader a sense of his own state as against the odds of his destiny ".

I have in the past played with the double sense of Archimago's name — Archi-mage, the preeminent enchanter, and Arch-image, the preeminent illusion — and on this basis asserted that the name authorizes a cultural imagination corrupted by its own impossible aspiration toward wholeness / holiness — toward heroic autonomy and tyrannical power — and thus torn by deprivation, anger, and the perpetual fear of impotence.

He is different from most other villains in the sense that he has noble and heroic qualities.

Rand's fiction displays a self-consciously Promethean sense of life, declaring through her characters the heroic value of

Jean Guillaume Moitte created a pediment sculptural group The Fatherland crowning the heroic and civic virtues that was replaced upon the Bourbon Restoration with one by David d ' Angers.

Even if we cannot agree with him in everything ; we all none the less owe him a debt of gratitude for setting an example of unswerving honesty, for his incorruptible conscience, and for his heroic view of his duty as a writer.

He also subverts typical space opera clichés ( such as the heroic soldier influencing battles through individual acts ) and " demonstrates how absurd many of the old clichés look to someone who had seen real combat duty.

A second historical tragedy, A faithful Servant of his Lord (, 1826, performed 1828 ), attempted to embody a more heroic gospel ; but the subject of the superhuman self-effacement of Bankbanus before Duke Otto of Meran proved too uncompromising an illustration of Kant's categorical imperative of duty to be palatable in the theatre.

He died in heroic performance of duty.

His indomitable spirit, dauntless initiative, and heroic devotion to duty were an inspiration to those with who he served and were in keeping with the highest tradition of the United States Naval Service.

Olshansky saves many lives and people by going above and beyond the call of duty, becoming a kind of heroic vigilante.

The Silver Medal of Valor is awarded to active CAP members for " distinguished and conspicuous heroic action, at the risk of life, above and beyond the call of normal duty.

An ordinary prudent person is not under any obligation to undertake a heroic duty at the risk of his own life.

Apart from brake wear in the Porsche and the decision not to change pads so close to the race end, the winning combination was relaxed driving by both GT40 drivers and heroic efforts at the right time by ( at that time Le Mans ' rookie ) Ickx, who won Le Mans five times more in later years.

Burl Barer reveals that an obscure early work, Daredevil, not only featured a heroic lead who shared " Saintly " traits ( down to driving the same brand of automobile ) but also shared his adventures with Inspector Claud Eustace Teal — a character later a regular in Saint books.

The belief in gods as embodiments of power, the heroic outlook inherited from a distant past together with the local chthonic cults, were later fitted into the frame of the city-states and his demands into an elastic system.

In English the phrase first appeared in the 17th century in John Dryden's heroic play, The Conquest of Granada ( 1672 ), where it was used by a Christian prince disguised as a Spanish Muslim to refer to himself, but it later became identified with the idealized picture of " nature's gentleman ", which was an aspect of 18th-century sentimentalism.

The tradition of tracing Chinese political history from heroic early emperors to the Xia to succeeding dynasties comes from the idea of the Mandate of Heaven, in which only one legitimate dynasty can exist at any given time, and was promoted by the Confucian school in the Eastern Zhou period, later becoming the basic position of imperial historiography and ideology.

Charles's flight from Scotland after the uprising has rendered him a romantic figure of heroic failure in later representations.

* In the 1956 film Helen of Troy, Paris, as the main character, is portrayed as a heroic character who at first worships peace and love but is later forced to take up arms against the treacherous Greeks.

During the early eras of tokusatsu, " heroic " monsters were rarely seen in Daikaiju Eiga films, and it was not until later when television tokusatsu productions began using kaiju which aided the hero, saved civilians, or demonstrated some kind of complex personality.

This Athenian soldier first completed a two-day run to seek Spartan help against the invading Persians in the Battle of Marathon, and then ran from the town of Marathon to Athens days later to announce the victory, dying as a result of his heroic efforts.

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ISBN 0-7642-2921-4 ; fictional account of Rahab's heroic act and later life among the Hebrews.

Along with Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda is the most important extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends, and from the early 19th century onwards has had a powerful influence on later Scandinavian literatures, not merely through the stories it contains but through the visionary force and dramatic quality of many of the poems.

These books are very different from his later, more famous pieces: they are inspired by Spanish romances and the heroic novels of the preceding century, with a certain intermixture of the marvellous.

The dithyramb, a genre of lyrics traditionally sung to Dionysus, was later developed into narratives illustrating heroic myths ; Simonides is the earliest poet known to have composed in this enlarged form ( the geographer Strabo mentioned a dithyramb, Memnon, in which Simonides located the hero's tomb in Syria, indicating that he didn't compose only on legends of Dionysius.

A bronze statue was later erected to him in the comitium because of his heroic act ; he was given " as much of the public land as he himself could plow around in one day with a yoke of oxen.

A second Navy Cross came later for heroic service in Nicaragua.

As a young man he composed the ballads Ivry and The Armada, which he later included as part of Lays of Ancient Rome, a series of very popular ballads about heroic episodes in Roman history which he composed in India and published in 1842.

A decade later, however, Whitman had a memorable foray into television for a single season in 1967, playing the heroic Marshal Jim Crown in the lavish western TV series Cimarron Strip.

He earned fame for his heroic performance in the border war with Mali, but years later would renounce the war as " useless and unjust ", a reflection of his growing political consciousness.

The story of Decius as preserved has been patterned after that of the military tribune of 258, but Decius could still have performed some heroic act in 343, the memory of which became the origin of the later embellished tale.

Although the epic was left unfinished, it was an example of mathnawis in the heroic style of the Shahnameh written later on for the Safavid kings.

Each heroic player character ( aside from Gamma ) also has an instrumental motif that later translates into a vocal theme song that plays during the end credits of their story.

Originally used for long poems on heroic themes, it later came to be popular in the writing of mock-heroic works.

This tale went on to achieve greater currency because its inventor linked Brutus to the diaspora of heroes that followed the Trojan War, and thus provided raw material which later mythographers such as Geoffrey of Monmouth, Michael Drayton, and John Milton could draw upon, linking the settlement of Britain to the heroic age of Greek literature, for their several and diverse literary purposes.