Word: heroicize
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...only the single-minded and often heroic intervention of the Dutch branch of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) that prevented Sudan's epidemic of kala-azar from turning into a modern-day version of the black death, which ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages. MSF, founded by French doctors in the early 1970s, not only was largely responsible for bringing the epidemic under control but in the process also developed new procedures for treating the disease under extremely harsh conditions...
Fincher's style is so handsomely oppressive, and Douglas' befuddlement is so cagey, that for a while the film recalls smarter excursions into heroic paranoia (The Parallax View, Total Recall). But, Fincher would say, it's your choice whether to be tantalized or exasperated. If the movie works, it's because you believe, for a couple of hours, that you are Nick. You are not playing the game; The Game is playing...
...women of all ages found a mirror image of themselves, however magnified and glamourized. In her ordeals, in the courage, stubbornness and idealism of her attempt to reinvent herself as an independent woman, women have found a model for themselves. It was this Diana, stronger for her own suffering, heroic for all that she was vulnerable, with whom women will continue to identify...
...though, balances nicely on a seesaw of caring and exasperation; and Penn has every garish shade of Eddie in his palette. He gets the pain, charm and drive, the stumbling humor of a guy whose only religion is the woman who betrayed him. He turns a jerk into a heroic figure: St. Doofus...
...pleasing misanthropy. The lead character typically believes himself hated for what he is--black or paraplegic or just decent--while the background people are weak, mean souls. The townsfolk in High Noon and The Wild One have the same suspicion about the star whether he is a heroic sheriff or a cool motorcyclist. There's a bootstrap isolationism at work here: the world is out to lynch you, so you'd better make it on your...