The heroic figures are white doors and windows, and tables, chairs, a piano and a sofa.

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For contrast, several ironic contemporary comments play off these traditionally rendered heroic figures.

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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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These characters range from heroic figures like the tomboy Arya Stark to villains like Littlefinger, but even the worst turn out to have psychic wounds that complicate their actions.

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But these heroic figures must know their place, too.

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But any insights into the later 19th-century American work are finessed for a nostalgic re-creation of a period installation with paintings hung close and "skied" to the ceiling, and a crowd of heroic figures and marble maidens on the floor.

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Inevitably, the figures are heroic, mingling recorded deals with estimates of others.

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Most of the figures, of course, are heroic estimates, and many are heroic forecasts, at that.

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