heroic tale in a sentence
Examples
- In a heroic tale of epic proportions, local Marin residents bonded together and defeated major transportation and development initiatives slated to carve freeways and new cities into Marin s still raw and mountainous environment.
- Despite the small size of the ships ( 10 by 4 feet ) there are hardly any accidents, but if they happen heroic tales are dragged out of them that are told for many years.
- Doug Wright's exotic, almost heroic tale of a real-life German transvestite, born Lothar Berfelde, who survived not only the Nazis but the Communists, without relinquishing her unusual sexual identity.
- Margiris and his heroic tale of desperate defense and sacrifice has spread, inspired other works, including Polish epic poem " Margier " by WBadysBaw Syrokomla in 1855, and became popular in Lithuania.
- Fox Family Channel at 8 : Janet Bailey, Courtney B . Vance, Dawnn Lewis, Glynn Turman and Tim Reid star in this 1994 telling of the heroic tale of four escaped slaves in the 1850s.
- Leon Uris, 78, who offered the world a heroic tale of the founding of Israel in his novel " Exodus, " dies of congestive heart failure on New York's Shelter Island.
- Despite the small size of the ships ( 10 by 4 feet ) there are hardly any accidents, but if they happen heroic tales are dragged out of them that are to be told for many years.
- Ireland had a vibrant, distinctive literature, filled with heroic tales of pagan warriors . . . . The most famous of these legendary warriors was Cuchulain, a great champion who was slain in defense of his homeland.
- Another possible reason for the film's mediocre debut was its marketing miss, which was also a subject of criticism; from the outset, Lionsgate marketed the film as a heroic tale versus an issues-oriented movie.
- In his 1949 book " Hero with a Thousand Faces ", Joseph Campbell pioneered the idea of the monomyth'( though the term was borrowed from James Joyce ); a universal pattern in heroic tales across different cultures and genres.