heroic drama
Americannoun
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With $50,000 raised among donors, the Harrison Gray Otis Memorial Assn. hired Troubetzkoy, who conceived of the deceased man’s life as a heroic drama.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
It’s a comparatively light heroic drama that focuses as much on Spider-Man’s crush on a classmate as it does on his superhero battles.
From The Verge ● Jul. 10, 2017
But the play lacks the simple intensity of heroic drama; it shares its villain's love of tricks, and is too full of jagged effects to produce a sustained emotion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Breathless before a bigger, more heroic drama than Hitler's bombshell had been, correspondents saw something new in history develop as the week closed.
From Time Magazine Archive
In these models of the pure heroic drama, the ruling sentiments of love and honour are carried to the most passionate extravagance.
From The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by Saintsbury, George
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