Word: heroicize
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...nations where the population derives benefit from a hostile stance toward the United States. Yet there are many leaders in the world, democratically or otherwise empowered, who derive a benefit that may be essential to their maintenance of power from the image that can so easily be created of heroic opposition to the unjust and hostile United States...
...will of Their Own, a miniseries that traced the women of an American family over several generations. In one scene, the young female granddaughter attends a rousing speech by Margaret Sanger, whom we all know as the founder of Planned Parenthood. The portrayal of Sanger was as a heroic crusader for women's rights to birth control and reproductive freedom...
...regale in details about the BFD's stick work, their heroic rescues of man and animal. Walking down Newbury Street on a cold Friday night, we follow the screams of Ladder 15 and Engine 33 as they investigate smoke from a building on Comm...
...Anthony Roth Costanza as her brilliantly effeminate best friend. The Merchant-Ivory attention to period detail often seems like the movie equivalent of good penmanship. But here it accrues a kind of ethical eloquence. These are people who try hard to love each other, with passionate clumsiness or a heroic, fading grace...
...Crimson fought off two man-up situations in the game's final two minutes, as sophomore goaltender Josh Bliesath came up big with two heroic saves. Harvard focused its defense on restricting MIT exclusively to one-point shots...