In Walking Tall (2004), a veteran is undoubtedly heroic - he's played by action hero Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock.
While other Olympians go by heroic-sounding nicknames like "bullet" or "torpedo, " Abdirahman calls himself the "Black Cactus, " a reference to his race and to the Arizona landscape in which he trains.
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Part Gothic cathedral, part Teutonic fortress, part sultan's palace, its roofline is a riot of spires, beehive water towers and gaudily tiled domes, and its flanks are decorated with heraldic symbols and heroic-scale frescoes of the hospital's benefactors.
With songs that mash together dark psychedelia, sunny chamber-pop and heroic prog-rock riffs, the album builds slowly from introspective beauty to fiery intensity.
The exciting ending was reminiscent of what took place in the title game four seasons ago when the Giants stunned the Patriots 17-14 after a heroic game-winning touchdown late in the fourth quarter of Super Bowl XLII.
Thunderbirds was a 1965-1966 British science fiction series that had it all: Heroic do-gooders.
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Heroic Mexican-American soldiers and Marines have been among the earliest US casualties in Iraq.
Lummus engaged in what his citation calls a heroic one-man assault before he was killed by a land mine.
Branson has transformed "trying" into a heroic enterprise--boosted by three unsuccessful attempts to circumnavigate the globe in a helium balloon.
He waged a heroic 17-year fight against that disease, and for most of those years he never told any of us.
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So we then experienced a parade of heroic would-be whistleblowers and sad sack employees whose 401(k)s were now so much confetti.
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To many Australians, Ned Kelly, the son of poor Irish Catholics, was a heroic anti-establishment figure who fought corrupt British colonists in the 19th Century.
Ladies and gentlemen, Jill and I just returned from a ceremony that honored Bob Dole and his heroic service -- an unparalleled devotion to supporting veterans in this country.
Finally, and anecdotally, managers say that the heroic cost-cutting that most businesses undertook during the recession and in the years since has largely run its course, leaving Corporate America with far less fat to trim in order to bolster cash-flow margins.
Moreover, he is most clearly the man for the post-Clinton moment, the anti-Gore: clean, heroic, straight-talking, likely to stand up strongly for democracy's interests around the globe.
McCain's future, in large measure, will depend on whether the voters in Michigan see his words through the prism of Theodore Roosevelt -- the heroic victim of dirty pool -- or through the prism of Bob Dole -- the snappish temper tantrum of a sore loser.
Both have advantages and disadvantages, much as the broad, impersonal-forces approach to the past and the heroic, great-man theory of history each have theirs.
Attlee was unable to subdue Nye Bevan - a heroic figure for the party's left - who quit the shadow cabinet and was almost expelled from the party a year later.
Franco and Zimbardo have argued that deifying heroes like this -- what they call "the myth of the 'heroic elect'" -- has the perverse effect of making us blind to our own heroic potential.
So, if you?re like me, unable to receive a signal despite near-heroic efforts.
This very nice rate was still a shade lower than in the heroic 5%-plus years of the 1880s.
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Wales's heroic Grand Slam-winning squad was brimming with Ospreys but under Jones's guidance they suffered Heineken Cup quarter-final defeat at Saracens.
The movie is a twist on the classic story, with the Sheriff of Nottingham cast as a sympathetic figure up against a not-so-heroic Robin Hood.
Image is everything, and the image that BP needs to present is one of a heroic Dudley Do-Right arriving on the scene to rescue Nell from the clutches of Snidely Whiplash.
Both games share similar trappings: hyper-graphical violence, a daunting number of burn victims, player choices that affect the outcome of the game, and a protagonist at once super-heroic and emotionally vulnerable.
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But to the Commissioner, to Mayor Giuliani -- who obviously performed heroic acts almost 10 years ago -- but most of all, to all of you, I wanted to just come up here to thank you.
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Marlin just drifts from one semi-heroic feat to the next, and the characters seldom get their hooks, or their jaws, into you with the pointed, snippy comedy that we have come to associate with Woody and Buzz Lightyear.
My current tax delinquency has nothing of courage or daring about it, nor am I contributing my refused taxes to one of our alternative funds, so these days I leave the more heroic and work-intensive meanings of that R aside, and simply call what I do war tax refusal.
According to Brush, the idea that entrepreneurs are born, heroic figures with un-teachable psychological traits has been around for 100 years.
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