hero
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Based on Homer's epic, Nolan's film retraces the hero Odysseus in a perilous journey to his home on the island of Ithaca after the Trojan War in the 12th century BCE.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
That brings us on to another theme - the national hero.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
“I’ll be a bigger hero than you ever were!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
That is what makes a Lantern a hero, and this adaptation one of the best of its kind in a long time.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
If so, she would surely go down in the history books as a hero to all in the theatrical firmament.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
She wrote how the farmers were "heroes" and now needed help to rebuild fencing destroyed by flame, as well as cover the cost of emergency feed and water for their animals during heatwave conditions.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
This, I think, is the difference between Espenson’s Chosen Ones and heroes like the Green Lantern.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Bless our adolescent boys: heroes in their own hearts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Thus, our heroes must peel themselves off from the couch and go on the run with their resentful felines Dio and GG bouncing along in backpacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
That’s what girl heroes on real islands should do, too.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
To mix it up, leftovers can easily be made into meatball heros.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2021
I’m sure the jobless, teachers, medical heros and first responders can sleep well tonight knowing these two gentlemen can survive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2020
It is completely self-serving for the author to portray himself or herself, along with fellow resistors, as heros.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 7, 2018
Every country has "heros" if you define "heros" as honorable people willing to treat others as they would want themselves and their family treated.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2018
Bid the hollow trumpet blow, In deaden'd tones, clear, firm, and low;— For, see! the patriot heros come!
From The Surrender of Calais A Play, in Three Acts by George Colman
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