How To Use Heroics In A Sentence
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Thus, we get both the boiling guitar heroics and songs that bristle to the point of bluntness.
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Maybe we can keep my TV heroics from escalating into killing, which otherwise I'm afraid they might.
STONE CITY
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Directors have shied away from making gory movies of this genre assuming that audiences find heroics in historical garb unexciting.
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They recall the heroics of the Ukrainians with one important difference.
The Mexican People: Heroes of Democracy
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This is romance without the gauzy focus and war without the heroics.
Christianity Today
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But it came down to last-second heroics and breathless moments provided by the rarest of talents.
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Quick with a quip and so square jawed that he actually dreams about his supersonic flying automobile, his heroics help keep the Supercar staff safe and sound.
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Pints were raised, toasts made and car horns worn out as Ireland celebrated this famous victory, this piece of sporting history that will rank alongside the heroics of both 1990 and 1994 in the football annals.
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Their makeshift pack performed heroics, and the backs found the spirit of adventure whose absence was so often criticised Down Under.
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Miguel Tejada, despite his heroics, is at just .087.
USATODAY.com - By any measure, Bonds on top
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In the wake of this devastation - which the show documented with artworks in various styles, from academic heroics to the symbolist fabulations of Moreau and Puvis de Chavannes - Impressionism emerged as an art of the quotidian, a painting that did not reassert eternal verities but documented the changes and variations that comprise ordinary life.
Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: First Impressions
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Otua had been greatly surprised as she watched Queen Chelsea's heroics.
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Suddenly, before I could perform any heroics, I was grabbed forcibly from behind.
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Missionary couples became the new saints; children in Sunday schools enjoyed their heroics.
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There's certainly a tendency in history to romanticize the heroics of the past.
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I could envision him performing the heroics described in the article.
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It was too little, too late but the home support were appreciative of the late heroics even if their championship dreams were over.
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The Rig Veda is a collection of hymns praising the gods and glorifying the conquests and the heroics of the aristocratic Aryan cult.
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VOICE OVER: Hancock ` s latest batch of so-called heroics take a hefty financial toll.
CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2008
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The day dawned misty and drizzly so we went to have a look, confident heroics would not be called for.
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It is these issues that should have been the focus of the press coverage from the start, not the mock-heroics of aircraft carriers, special forces and the stunt work of the young pilots in the sky.
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However, he performed these so-called heroics against a team that offered relatively weak resistance on defense because of their old legs, and blew opportunity after opportunity on offense probably because their point guard was playing with one good arm.
Tom Pappalardo: Why the Bulls Will Beat the Heat in Eastern Conference Finals
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Maybe we can keep my TV heroics from escalating into killing, which otherwise I'm afraid they might.
STONE CITY
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Many, probably all, men have had fantasies of wartime heroics.
Times, Sunday Times
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The only things more impressive than her heroics are her magnanimous spirit and ability to bring people together.
Swimming to Antarctica by Lynne Cox: Book summary
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Selleck made a smart call when he gave the hang-glider heroics a pass in favor of Bellisario's more down-to-earth approach.
Static
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One again there was a bumper crowd at Cougar Park with an attendance of 252 people urging the team to continue their cup heroics.
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Though there have been tragic accidental deaths, and unsoldierly-like, inhumane, and unacceptable acts perpetrated by a few misguided, possibly psychologically damaged soldiers -- the heroics of the many young men and women attempting to bring about positive changes for the oppressed people across the globe should not be forgotten, and their sacrifices cannot be taken lightly ... especially by those of us sitting here safe at home.
Cheryl Saban: True Colors
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West Ham gave it both barrels, as they say in cockney crime caper films, but somehow Liverpool fluked another trophy thanks to Steven Gerrard's heroics.
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You won't be performing such indoor heroics this time around.
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I wasn't sure how director Gore Verbinski Pirates of the Caribbean would fair by leaving the swashbuckling heroics of Captain Jack Sparrow for the much scalier territory of Rango, but he greatly benefited from an amazing animation department.
Richard Karpala: Review: Rango
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In the circumstances both matches reached a remarkably high standard with all four players performing heroics as they produced high class tennis.
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It is a decision that lames all of the Olympian power plays and faux heroics into a pale revenge story and transforms Perseus into a brooding modern action hero in the mold of Charles Bronson or Jean-Claude Van Damme (but with neither the sleazy presence of the former nor the vacant cheesiness of the latter).
MOVIE REVIEW: Clash of the Titans (2010)
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He captures with equal panache the drag-queenish vanity of Amalfi and the witty heroics of Count Sirocco.
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Jig's scrawny (even for a goblin) but smart (for a goblin), and as he gets himself further and further into heroicstrouble his main priority is just keeping himself alive while coping with the totally alien (and to his gobliny viewpoint, * incredibly stupid* and yet somehow effective) adventuring party.
Argh.
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Thanks to Bateman's heroics in the second half, the team won 20.
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Furthermore, in case you decide to emulate your crackbrained captain and his crazed heroics, I am giving you a direct order: No matter what happens, you are not to come after me.
THE RIFT
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This is more a symphony in which the piano takes a leading role, rather than an opportunity for individual heroics or display.
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Other sets may highlight his humor heroics, but the majority of the material here is below average and borderline dull.
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Despite his tinsel heroics, Jeremy wasn't able to overcome his fear and says he won't be doing it again any time soon.
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stagy heroics
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This lack of self (not one illustration is of the author) does have the advantage of lending credibility; and with no heroics or intrusive personal antics, and certainly none of the backpackers 'dreaded "inner journey", Jacobs's unmannered style and easy erudition is a delight.
Andes by Michael Jacobs
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Philip Roth, in a 1973 New York Times essay on baseball, called "its longueurs and thrills, its spaciousness, its suspensefulness, its heroics, its nuances, its lingo, its 'characters,' its peculiarly hypnotic tedium.
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Neither in his sonnets, nor in his various stanzas composed of heroics, nor in what may be called his doggerel metres -- the fatally fluent Alexandrines, fourteeners, and admixtures of both, which dominated English poetry from his time to Spenser's, and were never quite rejected during the Elizabethan period -- do we find evidence of the want of ear, or the want of command of language, which makes Wyatt's versification frequently disgusting.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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Laidlaw kicked a 22nd-minute penalty from close range but Halfpenny, retained as first-choice goalkicker following his late heroics in Dublin, drew Wales level 10 minutes before half-time through an effortless strike from 40 metres.
WalesOnline - Home
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The film lacks sentimentality or heroics, and that makes Pollock as strong as its subject matter.
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At the same time, it sets up a clear formula, so that we can delight in the heroics of the good guys and the devilish mischief of our main man.
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On the plus side, the temperaments and personalities of the 'firies' are starkly highlighted (no heroics, only teamwork is tolerated), as are current firefighting and rescue tactics.
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This time around – and I think we're on the 22nd remake now – they've steampunked it, gussying it up with much retro-futuristic silliness and cheap-looking CGI, anachronistic weaponry and ordnance, by-the-numbers action-heroics, and a sky teeming with armadas of heavily armoured hot-air balloons reminiscent of Zeppelins.
This steampunk take on The Three Musketeers doesn't buckle my swash
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This piece requires non-stop brio and a kind of splashy physical heroics.
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But time for late heroics is growing short.
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No one like Rambo is going to help Americans discover the fate of missing soldiers in Southeast Asia and popular movies portraying such single-handed heroics are a disservice to the country, according to a former prisoner of war.
Heroes or Villains?
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Also a special word for Steve Bacon, who added to his recent heroics in the varsity match to ease his way to the singles cuppers championship as well.
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No antibiotic heroics, no psychosurgical wizardry, just ordinary everyday caring.
Beyond Meds
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In ways, the music is very Bachian but there is also a touch of Haydnian heroics that makes the music very approachable.
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I made a face, and glanced back towards the heroics in bay two.
NIGHT SISTERS
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Gordon has been the Bulls' clutch man off the bench, a 42.7 percent 3-point shooter who already is known for his fourth quarter heroics.
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The director delivers a film that harkens back to a golden age of solid storytelling and bold heroics, without the falsely pumped-up bravado of so many "major" pictures these days.
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Operacion Puerto and its onomastics is not related to heroics, but to bags of frozen blood, and the mystery of their identity and the performances they produced - Names such as Birillo, Amigo de Birillo, USA, Hijo de Rudicio, and Piti, treatments such as Siberia, Vino,
Interactivist Info Exchange - A Project of Interactivist.net and Autonomedia.org
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Woolfolk says poise and comeback heroics are nothing new for McNair.
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heroics are for those epic films they make in Hollywood
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a 10-minute misconduct and watched Kamensky's heroics from the runway next to the Rangers 'bench.
National Hockey League - Rangers vs. Flames
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But Losman carved up the secondary en route to the Jackson touchdown, setting up the late heroics from the Jets defense.
The Tail Section » Season 5 Predictions
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There are stories of mythical fish, giants, time-warped towns, war heroics and bank robberies.
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Byrd, thanks to some ninth-inning heroics from the Kansas City offense, moved into a tie for the American League lead with 13 victories.
USATODAY.com - A's pitchers starting to dominate again
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For people who aren't sick of Battle Without Honor or Humanity the full CD of guitar heroics from the Japanese master.
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It is an ‘ordinary’ girl, not a magic man, who performs the real heroics.
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Huddersfield, who had only briefly flickered in the first-half, came out a side reborn after the break and would have grabbed an equaliser just minutes after the restart but for some more penalty heroics from Collinson.
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The stories of heroics performed in war zones to get the story home to breakfast tables will only sound more resounding in the weeks ahead.
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Despite regional variations Biedermeier style is therefore staid, sober, and particular, eschewing heroics and drama.
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But I did notice one thing. Her breathing seemed to become less labored after Wade's heroics.
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Here there were none of the accustomed party cant or heroics about the Revolution.
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He had been more interested in stories, in tales of adventure, in epics and sagas and heroics.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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Perrin performed heroics to pluck it away from the top corner.