How To Use Heroism In A Sentence

Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
There were periods of real heroism as Scotland tried to speed the game up, Gordon Simpson deciding to run a quick one at the outset.
England stood forth as the centre of opposition against Philip, and under the unwilling leadership of Elizabeth entered on its epic period of heroism, was stimulated to that remarkable outburst of energy and intellect and power which we call the Elizabethan age. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
There is no heroism in butchery, no heroism in suicide, no heroism in writing that invokes, and profits from, the war you have left behind.
After all, both in reality and cinema, heroism consists of self-sacrifice: the sacrifice of life and freedom.

The result is a gripping examination of generational change and a moving tribute to heroism. Times, Sunday Times
Such scenes work on the level of stylization and pure martial arts action, and may be appreciated wholly out of context, but the essence of heroism remains elusive.
Labanino, 46, is one of the Cuban Five, who have become a cause celebre in their homeland, daily lauded by the Cuban government for what it calls their heroism in purportedly helping derail attacks against the communist isle. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
I was going to make the point that Churchill's heroism was not dependent on his being a particularly pleasant or agreeable man.
The only talk in the ward was of the movement of troops, of victories and heroism here, of defeat and scabrous cowardly enemies there. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Highlighting the heroism and absurdity of war, it also illuminates a forgotten byway of African experience. The King's Rifle: Summary and book reviews of The King's Rifle by Biyi Bandele.
She became the virtuous focus of masculine desire, the unmoved mover who stirred her subjects to acts of gallantry and heroism.
Every year on the anniversary of D-Day, for example, we acknowledge the heroism and sacrifice of those who stormed the beaches of Normandy.
Petronio's attempt at alchemy -- converting superheroism into antiheroism -- simply fails. Chicago Reader
Far from being naive or credulous in the face of blind biology I say that it is our human experience of heroism and selflessness which best defines us.
It is at best but a pettifogging, pickthank business to decompose actions into little personal motives, and explain heroism away. Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
Bung Karno was drawn to paintings depicting heroism because he was always engaged in struggle.
My father has a streak of heroism in him that I admire, but that verges on foolhardiness.
Selt-trust is the essence of heroism.
As he pulled the dead body from the spring the water became agitated, and from the bubbles arose a vapor that gradually assumed the form of a venerable Indian, with long white locks, in whom the murderer recognized Waukauga, father of the Shoshone and Comanche nation, and a man whose heroism and goodness made his name revered in both these tribes. Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 07 : Along the Rocky Range
So, should you be cited for heroism or indicted for homicide?
There is doubt, though, about a medal Cotta received nearly three years ago in belated recognition of his heroism, the Distinguished Bruce Cotta
The stories of heroism from the epics involved the use of supernatural or divine powers by the avtats or incarnations of gods and goddesses.
Interesting, your point about IRON FIST being your favourite comic since maybe STARMAN, as both titles revivified third-string characters to the point of making them top tier -- bottom end of that tier, but up there -- and they both did it by putting the emphasis on legacy/generational heroism. Shane! Shane! Come back! | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
O'Grady's accounts of the Elizabethan wars find heroism only among the ordinary members of the warrior class as brave and honest pawns sacrificed to the intrigues of their self-seeking leaders.
His exemplary behaviour and supreme heroism are fully deserving of the nation's highest recognition. Times, Sunday Times
The 85 minutes of laboured monologues and unconvincing heroism are as entertaining as a pet's funeral.
Surprisingly, there is little heroism or drama in the routine of life in a combat zone.
Take it up where you will, and provided only sufficient time (the reading of a dozen stanzas ought to suffice to any one who has the necessary gifts of appreciation) be given to allow the soft dreamy versicoloured atmosphere to rise round the reader, the languid and yet never monotonous music to gain his ear, the mood of mixed imagination and heroism, adventure and morality, to impress itself on his mind, and the result is certain. A History of Elizabethan Literature
The play attracted a large audience among the young, who were greatly moved by Che's selfless heroism.
Thus it is that the whiteness of white men resides in the tragic quality of their giving way to darkness and the heroism of channeling or resisting it.
Yesterday the Prince appeared unruffled as he handed out medals for heroism in Afghanistan. The Sun
For some time now, firefighters have been portrayed as the last bastion of unquestioned heroism in the public psyche.
The screaming, the heroism and reasonable panic, the fumbling in semi-darkness for mobile phones - it was our safe distance from it all that was so horrifying.
Band pals told him of the heroism of people who helped the injured and dying. The Sun
The fight with Goliath is the culminating stage in this paideia, where David proves his worthiness to be king through his personal heroism.
The Christian concept of passive heroism places a high value on endurance, which in Shakespeare's ethic is cognate with constancy and hence with truth.
It is the kind of quiet heroism that builds nations. Times, Sunday Times
The heroism and suffering of the common soldiers who served under him moved him deeply. Times, Sunday Times
In these enthusiasts we shall find striking examples of one of the morbid forces of human nature; yet in candor let us do honor to what was genuine in them, -- that principle of self-abnegation which is the life of true religion, and which is vital no less to the highest forms of heroism. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century
It dissects (a shade too scientifically and cold-bloodedly at times perhaps) the sentiments and emotions associated with attack and defence; the impulses that eventuate in heroism; the alternating super-sensitiveness and callousness of the nerves; fear and the mastery of fear; the 'hope deferred that maketh the heart sick'; the devious stratagems of the terrible 'cafard' (blues). The Jervaise Comedy
Somewhat more surprising is that some find inspiration for heroism.
But it is the emerging heroism of Hecuba that Castle may find most inspiring.
The universality of the mouse fear roves its prehistoric origin, showing how consistently and successfully women have been educating men in heroism; in earliest times it probably required a whole dinotherium ramping at the cave-mouth to induce primitive man to draw weapon in his mate's defense, but now to evoke the quintessence of chivalry, all a woman has to do is to hop on a chair at sight of a mouse. The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers
In general, the prominent characteristic of Stoic philosophy is moral heroism, often verging on asceticism.
They can be made by a young conscript who chooses to tell her family about the horrors to which she contributed, rather than maintain the silent lie of false heroism.
One recalls the heroism and dynamism of the founding fathers of the labour movement such as Uriah Butler, George Weekes and Cola Rienzie.
Within its story there's ample room for patriotic heroism and an enterprising remaker could add flashbacks if an action bent were desired as well as the Hollywood-de-rigeur "questioning authority" angle, which is plenty explicit in the original. America proven frivolous.
The Resistance included individuals of supreme heroism and patriotism. Times, Sunday Times
In that imaginary reality what drives people to act in one way or another is ideas of honour, chivalry, nobility and heroism.
When we have gone to sleep with a maddening toothache and are conscious of it only as a little girl whom we attempt, time after time, to pull out of the water, or as a line of Molière which we repeat incessantly to ourselves, it is a great relief to wake up, so that our intelligence can disentangle the idea of toothache from any artificial semblance of heroism or rhythmic cadence. Swann's Way
He deals in good old-fashioned American tales of heroism.
Some call it 'clicktivism'; some call it the new politics or 'hashtag heroism'. Times, Sunday Times
But he did want to bring them into the White House so that he could personally thank them for what he calls heroism during that 11-day standoff with China. CNN Transcript May 18, 2001
This was not because the virtues of the person, in whose honour it was raised, were so conspicuous, or because they so far outrivalled those recorded on the other arches, that men were constrained to stop and ponder over a life so remarkable for its heroism. Chinese Folk-Lore Tales
Though he notes occasional heroism, his general verdict on the working classes is unfavourable.
This book is a tribute to his own heroism, but Keates also indicates his hesitancies which flowed from his class position.
That sharp-featured but charming face failed to conceal his idiocy, but apparently the looks and rumors of heroism was enough for the equally idiotic public.
Selt-trust is the essence of heroism.
There is something vaguely fascist in that utter blankness and justification by heroism.
Jean may be an army deserter, but he still maintains an air of heroism.
All about me were nobleness of purpose and heroism of effort, and my days and nights were sunshine and starshine, all fire and dew, with before my eyes, ever burning and blazing, the Holy Grail, Christ's own Grail, the warm human, long-suffering and maltreated but to be rescued and saved at the last. ' Chapter 5: The Philomaths
I'm reluctant to say too much about it, or even to explain it let's just say that a combination of doctorly advice and husbandly heroism and sheer desperation and luck and blessedness probably have much to do with it. Archive 2009-02-22
If one of the meanest of human conditions is conscious heroism, paltrier yet is heroism before the fact, incapable of self realization! The Marquis of Lossie
Tales of their heroism served as inspiration to generations who fought for freedom.
My father has a streak of heroism in him that I admire.
Two of the Heroes could not quite mitigate their practiced heroism to meet the current threat. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
It is a tale of heroism and human frailty, passion and the problems of eating an egg mayonnaise stottie without staining your trousers. Gridlock
The screaming, the heroism and reasonable panic, the fumbling in semi-darkness for mobile phones - it was our safe distance from it all that was so horrifying.
And most acts of heroism go unnoticed and unthanked. Cart - The Film on Vimeo
In saluting his life of violence, exile and running, there is the satisfaction of heroism and human grandeur, an athletic and aesthetic pleasure, something exalted and defiant about his refusal to serve.
Our views of leadership are entwined with ideas of heroism.
The Red Sweet Wine of Youth: The Brave and Brief Lives of the War Poets" is a book about "the impact of that war on the sensibility of the artist"; it also sets out to show that Sassoon et al were not necessarily antiwar but antiheroism, as in the mocking title of one of Wilfred Owen's most famous poems, "Dulce et Decorum Est. Versed in the Horror of War
I and my collegues applaud the American tradition of TRUTH - and your questioning throughout our nation of claims of heroism is applaudable. BERNARD RAMSEY
The resistance of the besieged garrison had thus become the great symbol of Nationalist heroism. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
He himself didn't find out about his dad's heroism until years later, when he read the story in a newspaper article.
They were antiheroes before antiheroism was cool, and it’s that certitude of their old-school hipness that they cling to ever harder to deal with the welter of criticisms you cite above. Why Would They Lie? | ATTACKERMAN
Instead, the book is a paean to family, the navy and heroism.
You will discover riches within yourself that you cannot conceive of, acts of heroism that will take your breath away.
Yet despite his heroism, Freeman also stirred up storms of controversy.
pinchbeck heroism
Tales of such heroism and sacrifice are common to all cultures of course.
One thing about his father is that he neither wanted nor accepted heroism as a birth right.
The poets of the First World War were not so much antiwar as antiheroism. Versed in the Horror of War
I was thrilled when I received the replies and am still amazed at their modesty and quiet heroism. Times, Sunday Times
The risks coexist with great heroism. Times, Sunday Times
Men are still capable of great heroism. Times, Sunday Times
Personally I think this is the course of action we need to take if we want heroism to be cool again. Times, Sunday Times
His preferred terms of admiration reflect the Victorian preoccupation with ‘character’, inflected perhaps by his endorsement of strenuousness as the essential ingredient of moral heroism.
The dreary waste of bared earth, thatched sheds and standing water, was a paradise to him; and when we walked up planks to deserted mixing and crushing mills, and actually saw where the clay was stirred with long iron prongs, and chalk or lime ground with "a tind of a mill," his expression of contentment and triumphant heroism knew no limit to its beauty. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
Usually this involves the agent's "escape" and subsequent return with a story of his "heroism" and narrow escape from the en. POWs and Politics - Part 1
But in the economic domain a similar, nay, more difficult, heroism is required especially from the lowest and the most wretched, and must be required of such as long as society is based upon a foundation of exploitage, and Freeland A Social Anticipation
Soon after, they were attacked by a party of English regulars and militiamen, who drove them into a windmill and two strong stone houses, which they loopholed, and defended themselves with a pertinacity which one would have called heroism, had it been in a better cause. The Englishwoman in America
Bravery and heroism come into play when a person potentially puts the safety of others before their own.
From the moment I read that book I was enchanted with the heroism and gallantry and poetry of Collins's life.
The heroism of the police is recognized by the coalition in medal ceremonies like this.
The old author dreamed that the heroes of the Trojan War were changed by Zeus into the warriors of the mimic strife in order that such renowned exploits should be perpetuated among men forever: rather must we reverse the dream, and apotheosize the powers of the board, that they may appear in the sieges, heroisms, and victories of life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860
Though he notes occasional heroism, his general verdict on the working classes is unfavourable.
All about me were nobleness of purpose and heroism of effort, and my days and nights were sunshine and starshine, all fire and dew, with before my eyes, ever burning and blazing, the Holy What Life Means to Me
Dark-haired, loose-limbed, spare-framed, keen-eyed, he stands for the heroism unleashed by extraordinary circumstances in the ordinary citizen.
I don't take credit for great heroism, though. Christianity Today
(Mary's consent at the angel's annunciation tells us everything we need to know, except for most folks the connotation conjures up 'automobile company' or 'ex-nihilo' currency creation favored by political administrations who like to avoid concepts like "consent" not something young men desire to imitate: ancilla Domini heroism) Do you think "Consent is Sexy"?
This game is what cup games are all about: spirit, fight, clean football and a little bit of heroism to round it all off.
John Bradley won the decoration for heroism on Iwo Jima, just two days before the flag raising.
Public voices used to bray on about heroism and sacrifice.
It brings up a point that I keep meaning to get around to, which is that our notions of heroism may need to be rethought from the ground up. Billings Blog
These were not at first glance obvious contenders for romantic questing or heroism. The Times Literary Supplement
I saw heroism, bravery, and failure. Times, Sunday Times
Today, their heroism goes largely unknown and unrecognized.
Unbelievably, all this heroism was virtually ignored by the press and Hollywood.
The most intriguing of the calls is the one said to have been made by the flight's most famous passenger whose ‘Lets roll!’ phrase became a byword for the victims' heroism and patriotism.
I just thought you may be interested that he is deceased, and can no longer ride on the coat tails of REAL heroes, none of whom we have known have "flaunted" their heroism, Purple Hearts, or Heroes or Villains?
The famed leading officer earned the VC for various different acts of heroism, rather than one single act.
The heroism glamorised by Wolfe and Kaufman was of the balls-out variety.
The heroism displayed was of an extraordinary nature, and obviously great damage was done to the German war effort.
he showed great heroism in battle
For his heroism consists largely in this, that his efforts to outjest his master's injuries are the efforts of a being to whom a responsible and consistent course of action, nay even a responsible use of language, is at the best of times difficult, and from whom it is never at the best of times expected. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
The heroism of the wartime generation will be saluted by two days of commemorations in Yorkshire this weekend.
Highland clans, endeavoured, with unavailing heroism, to cover the tumultuary retreat of the common file. A Legend of Montrose
There were inspiring examples of heroism and human kindness. The Sun
But will his act of reckless heroism end in disaster when one of the train carriages explodes? The Sun
Heroism attaches much importance to the investment of clients.
his heroism saved a life
Learn about a gooky substance, the Suez Canal and an act of heroism that had librarians cheering. NPR Topics: News
Travis has purged himself by killing this street scum, but his fate is unsettled and his ‘heroism’ is still in question.
The resistance of the besieged garrison had thus become the great symbol of Nationalist heroism. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
Even when the film flirts with shades of grey - such as the alternate visions of heroism offered by drunken knife-wielder Jim Bowie and his foppish rival William Travis - Hancock's adherence to rousing, simplistic conventions turns his story into laborious mush.
The concept of heroism became unthinkable except in relation to fanatical military force.
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
Each must also recognise the other's sacred modern narratives of tragedy and heroism. Times, Sunday Times
A potent story of survival and quiet heroism. Times, Sunday Times
It is very hard to argue that the Soviets were given the credit they were due for their sacrifices and sheer heroism.
Heroism" is used and heroes created to aestheticize and glorify war and, it seems, is the ideological band-aid we use to cover up the suffering, wounding, and killing of disposable soldiers. Andrew Bickford: Shadow Elite: Pat Tillman & Why Soldier Hero Worship Serves the Powerful ... Not the Soldiers
No country has a monopoly on bravery; great deeds of heroism are liable to break out in the most unexpected places.
My father has a streak of heroism in him that I admire, but that verges on foolhardiness.
But Shakespeare scholars realized that the actual text was interlaced with lines that cut against Olivier's theme of martial glory and royal heroism.
In each the larger animal keeps a contemptuous good humour; in each the smaller annoys him with wasp-like impudence, certain of practical immunity; in each we shall find a double life producing double characters, and an excursive and noisy heroism combined with a fair amount of practical timidity. Memories and Portraits
Labanino, 46, is one of the Cuban Five, who have become a cause celebre in their homeland, daily lauded by the government for what it calls their heroism in purportedly helping derail attacks against the communist isle. Raw Story
Though Giles Radice does not say so, this is clearly a form of political heroism which has hitherto been overlooked.
The heroism and suffering of the common soldiers who served under him moved him deeply. Times, Sunday Times
Consumers applied for membership on the Marmarati's website by sharing their acts of Marmite heroism, acts that ranged from the peculiar to the eccentric e.g., an ode to this yeast by-product. Playing The Spread
This is a story of intrigue, conspiracy, heroism and romance - and a good deal of it true.
We have had mass deaths before, mass suffering, and we have seen heroism in its face.
Two of the Heroes could not quite mitigate their practiced heroism to meet the current threat. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
The guy has brought all his resources to bear to pay tribute to blue collar heroism, dignify mundane aspirations, memorialize the dead, and console the survivors.
Our narrator is introduced almost as a figure of fun, but by the end becomes a figure of great heroism. Times, Sunday Times
This story line is full of victimized women and children, Wild West six-gun shoot-outs, hyper-masculinity, and epic heroism. September 11 �� An Opportunity to Evolve Our Humanity
What follows is a gripping study of quiet heroism. Times, Sunday Times
Let not that amiable man, who has found the art of introducing heroism into common life, and dignifying the most trivial circumstances by the sublimity and refinedness of his sentiments, now, in the most important affair, sink below the common level. Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian
The round-the-clock communications and solicitude evidently required for her maintenance demanded a heroism if not masochism in her patient allies.
Gandhi applied a technique of combat which turned the traditional docility of the gentle Hindu into heroism.
Air Marshal Shepherd said that for his professional skill, heroism and airmanship, Squadron Leader Hall was awarded the Air Medal and the First Oak Leaf Cluster.
Obviously, he went into battle, and he was wounded, he received, I think, three Purple Hearts, he received a Silver Star which is only given for true heroism in the face of enemy gunfire. CNN Transcript Sep 20, 2004
I thought both programmes were about egomaniacs, and I fail to see the heroism in a bunch of gold-diggers playing silly games on a sunny island.
The SFO is deliberately against technical virtuosity in favour of serendipity, against phallocentric guitar-heroism in favour of a detached, unphysical approach to playing.
Its characteristics of intellectualism, timelessness, cleverness, spin, non-contact, heroism, and contemplation are as if specifically designed to fit the national psyche.
Heroism is used and heroes created to aestheticize and glorify war and, it seems, is the ideological band-aid we use to cover up the suffering, wounding, and killing of disposable soldiers. Andrew Bickford: Shadow Elite: Pat Tillman & Why Soldier Hero Worship Serves the Powerful ... Not the Soldiers
The heroism and suffering of the common soldiers who served under him moved him deeply. Times, Sunday Times
Emotionally diffident, he lacks the physical and dramatic force to invest the role with heroism.
She took her part moreover all on a sudden with heroism.
But despite his forced jocularity, desultory attempts at humour, and spurts of nervous energy, Obree is a husk of heroism past.
So in a way they will always be figures of intrigue and of heroism and that's as it should be: childhood heroes should not be outgrown just because childhood has ended.
Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
Today, we learn about a strange gooky substance, the Suez Canal and an act of heroism in Egypt that had librarians worldwide cheering. NPR Topics: News
And yes, there's plenty of that stoicism and quiet heroism around, and it was on display today.
They reflect exceptional acts of individual heroism in Helmand last summer. The Sun
The work will be an output of heroism, and it will ennoble even those who will not know of it. The Kempton-Wace Letters
'Few nobler heroisms,' says a well-known writer, long occupied on this subject, 'at bottom, perhaps, _no nobler heroism_, ever transacted itself on this earth; and it lies as good as lost to us, overwhelmed under such an avalanche of human stupidities as no heroism before ever did. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
He won the Medal of Honor for heroism in Vietnam.
So we obsessively analyze this epic Homerian battle, trying to find a moment of heroism, a brief glimpse to help salve our morally guilty wounds.
My father has a streak of heroism in him that I admire.
But what we must do is remember their heroism, their courage and their sacrifice. Times, Sunday Times
As a combined act of sporting heroism and high technical accomplishment, they were amazing. Times, Sunday Times
In the armoury is the very suit painted by Caravaggio, by the side of the armour of the noble old La Valette, whose heroism saved his island from the efforts of Mustapha and Dragut, and an army quite as fierce and numerous as that which was baffled before Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
It gives us almost everything the imagination craves – irony, heroism, vastness, unity in multiplicity, and a tragic close. C.S. Lewis on Evolutionism (the Myth)
Some might say that these tales of celebrity heroism might be the product of hyper-imaginative publicists.
Certainly it's a story of heroism and courage and ordinary Australians going far beyond the call of duty.
Cindy's heroism, or heroinism is beyond question. by gramps (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 107 comments) on Monday, Nov 28, 2005 at 9: 33: 57 PM What makes a hero?
Heroism" is used and heroes created to aestheticize and glorify war and, it seems, is the ideological band-aid we use to cover up the suffering, wounding, and killing of disposable soldiers, the balm we use to soothe the suffering of the families and friends impacted - both emotionally and financially -- and left behind. Andrew Bickford: Shadow Elite: Pat Tillman & Why Soldier Hero Worship Serves the Powerful ... Not the Soldiers
I respect his quiet heroism. Times, Sunday Times
The gallant heroism of both the British Navy and the German Captain Langsdorff, who scuttles his own ship rather than face defeat, strongly appealed to Powell and Pressburger.
Watching these films, I realized that although one man may stand out more than others in devotion and leadership, war is filled with heroes -- the many unnamed heroes that even help to create the known heroes, or the simple heroism of risking your life for the defense of one's country. Archive 2009-06-01
In addition, valorizing the accomplishments of one individual perpetuates the neglect of joint and communal creativity in favor of a kind of masculine heroism.
But will his act of reckless heroism end in disaster when one of the train carriages explodes? The Sun
That said, the Gollum business and the Arkenstone incident both show certain ambiguities in his heroism. Linkspam for 29-7-2009
This is American pop culture - its film stars and sports figures - inflected through Pfeiffer's subtle and not-so-subtle messages, in American terms, about racism, heroism, irony and loss.
We may well feel cynical about the type of best-selling adventure which assumes heroism without accounting for it.
The 85 minutes of laboured monologues and unconvincing heroism are as entertaining as a pet's funeral.
the unlaureled heroism of endurance
The presence of two Maori and three women in this book confirm that heroism is independent of race and gender.
As a combined act of sporting heroism and high technical accomplishment, they were amazing. Times, Sunday Times
It was an act of heroism to go back into the burning building to save the wounded trapped within.
In The Quiet American, the emphasis is not on love, rescue, or heroism of any sort but on the failures of filiation.
Each run involved a journey through the hellish smoke and back, but David's heroism had paid off.
Folktales also played a major role in oral literature and their subject matter ranged from love to heroism to supernatural acts.
He did not ask for heroism or the wholesale upheaval of life. Times, Sunday Times
Heroism of a different order was on the menu of three of the greatest Casanovas of the age of sail.
Jin Jing became a symbol of heroism in China for her efforts to protect the torch. Did China stage attack on disabled Olympics torch bearer?
The higher ups never really considered the pressure they'd heaped on her but what I did hardly qualified as heroism.
Similarly, this finding leaves open the possibility that female characters expressed heroism in ways not entailing physical hardihood or risk.

How To Use Heroism In A Sentence

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