The game has become our modern Passion Play, self-destruction as our highest form of heroism.
Satisfaction does not insist on setting up clear categories of heroism and villainy, good, and evil.
Thousands cheered for Ukrainian unity and heroism as the blue-and-yellow flags of their country flapped in the late summer sun.
Hamlet refused to accept that heroism was his destiny, because of the behavior it required.
Feelings of shame and unworthiness are universal precursors to one of two things: an act of destruction and an act of heroism.
They are presented as good and evil, as vice and virtue, as villainy and heroism.
His heroism appears in growing revelation from the beginning.
But for the heroism of the signallers, it would have been insuperable.
But side by side with these despicable men what heroism we saw!
The heroism of the Spaniards might protract, but could not avert their fall.
1717, from French héroisme, from heros (see hero (n.1)).