In view of Eisenhower's reluctance to concede that anything was amiss in the Terror, it is doubtful that heroic intervention by Dulles could have produced anything but disaster for him and the country's foreign policy.

" The book does not focus on heroic stories of bravery, but rather gives a view of the conditions in which the soldiers find themselves.

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.

The official view aimed to separate Mao's actions during the Cultural Revolution from his " heroic " revolutionary activities during the Chinese Civil War and the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Näsström comments that " still, we must ask why there are two heroic paradises in the Old Norse view of afterlife.

One view considers the account to have kept alive by the oral tradition of heroic poetry until it was included in the epos.

From a technical point of view, few poets have ever approached Alexander Pope's perfection at the iambic pentameter closed couplet (" heroic verse "), and his lines were repeated often enough to lend quite a few clichés and proverbs to modern English usage.

A painting reflecting a British view, assigning the main heroic role at the Acre siege to Admiral Smith and relegating the Turks to a secondary role

These works began to present a less heroic view of soldiers, who often represented a considerable threat to civilian populations even in peacetime, though the extravagant costumes of the Landsknecht are often treated as glamorous.

This stance angered many officers in the Royal Navy, who believed such a view lacked the heroic aspect of Lord Nelson's strategy in the Napoleonic Wars.

Even though Alexander Pope made her a centerpoint in the heroic games of The Dunciad in Book II — she is, in Pope's view, " vacuous "– he does not dismiss her for being a woman, but for having nothing of her own to say.

Jennifer Burns expressed a similar view, stating that the play's attempts to portray individualism had " dubious results ... Rand intended Bjorn Faulkner to embody heroic individualism, but in the play he comes off as little more than an unscrupulous businessman with a taste for rough sex.

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.

The view advanced by O ' Rahilly was that Lugaid Riab nDerg is yet another emanation of the heroic mytho-dynastic figure Lugaid, closely associated with the prehistoric Érainn, a population of late Iron Age Ireland who provide Irish legend with its earliest known Kings of Tara.

A related point that has been widely debated is whether Hemingway intended the reader to view Robert Wilson as a heroic figure, embodying Hemingway's ideal of the courageous, hyper-masculine male.

Keating produced a considerable number of paintings related to this scheme, as with all his paintings, these are realistic in style, some are literal and some are allegorical compositions seeking to communicate his view of the construction work as an heroic, even mythological, act.

In the Kalewala and the Traditional Poetry of the Finns ( English translation by IM Anderton, 1898 ) he discusses the national epic of Finland and its heroic songs, with a view to solving the problem whether an epic could be composed by the interweaving of such national songs.

From the point of view of the techniques of ( four-dimensional ) quantum field theory, and as the numerous and heroic efforts to formulate a consistent quantum gravity theory by some very able minds attests, gravitational quantization was, and is still, the reigning champion for bad behavior.

Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum was not finished until after the death of Absalon, but Absalon was one of the chief heroic figures of the chronicle, which was to be the main source of knowledge about early Danish history.

Epic: a long narrative poem in elevated style presenting characters of high position in adventures forming an organic whole through their relation to a central heroic figure and through their development of episodes important to the history of a nation or race.

Noted psychologist William James called the studies “ heroic ” and said that they were “ the single most brilliant investigation in the history of psychology ”.

This ambivalence appears to underlie his presentation of human history in Works and Days, where he depicts a golden period when life was easy and good, followed by a steady decline in behaviour and happiness through the silver, bronze and Iron Ages – except he inserts a heroic age between the last two, though representing its warlike men as better than their bronze predecessors.

Other artists depicted scenes, regardless of when they occurred, in classical dress and for a long time, especially during the French Revolution, history painting often focused on depictions of the heroic male nude.

* The role-playing game Space: 1889 ( 1988 ) features an alternate history in which a heroic Mars, complete with natives, is being colonized by the European empires of the 19th century.

* Emperor Shaka the Great-a heroic epic poem based on Zulu Oral history collected by Mazisi Kunene

Generally however, most Sandinistas associated Sandino on a more practical level, as a heroic and honest person who tried to combat the evil forces of imperialist national and international governments that existed in Nicaragua's history.

A detail from Benjamin West's heroic, neoclassicism | neoclassical history painting, The Death of General Wolfe ( 1771 ), depicting an idealized indigenous peoples of the Americas | Native American.

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.

The term cliometrics was originally coined by Jonathan R. T. Hughes and Stanley Reiter in 1960 and refers to Clio, who was the muse of history and heroic poetry in Greek mythology.

The battle for Luding Bridge has been portrayed as a glorious and heroic moment in Chinese Communist history, analogous to the U. S. battle of the Alamo.

For example, the battle at Xiang River “ which the official history of the Long March identifies as the longest and most heroic battle of the entire campaign, was in fact a major defeat for the Communists, with casualties and desertions reducing the First Army from 86, 000 to 30, 000 people .”< ref > Pye, Lucian.

The legacy of Saxo Grammaticus is the sixteen book heroic history of the Danes called Gesta Danorum.

In the preface to the work, Saxo writes that his patron Absalon, Archbishop of Lund had encouraged him to write a heroic history of the Danes.

Saxo's work was not strictly a history or a simple record of old tales, rather it was " a product of Saxo's own mind and times ," he combines the history and mythology of the heroic age of Denmark and reworks it into his own story that exemplifies the past of the Danes.

Clio is the muse of heroic poetry and history in Greek mythology.

Emmet became an heroic figure in Irish history.

His main focus was to restore Quebeckers ' pride in their identity by knowledge of history, both the heroic acts of New France and the French Canadian and self-government rights obtained through a succession of important political victories: 1774, the Quebec Act recognized the rights of the Quebec province and its people with respect to French law, Catholic religion and the French language ; in 1848, responsible government was finally obtained after decades of struggle, along with the rights of the French language ; in 1867, the autonomy of the province of Quebec was restored as Lower Canada was an essential partner in the creation of a new Dominion through Confederation Confederation canadienne, Montreal, Quebec 10 / 10, 1978 ( 1918 ).

Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, the national epic of Iran, is a mythical and heroic retelling of Persian history.

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.

In the early nineteenth century, as the Abolitionist movement gained momentum in Boston, supporters lauded Attucks as a black American who played a heroic role in the history of the United States Because Attucks had Wampanoag ancestors, his story also holds special significance for many Native Americans.

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.