Word: heroicize
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...abortion. Owen Meany goes a step beyond. "I'm moved and impressed by people with a great deal of religious faith," says Irving, an Episcopalian who admits that the compulsory churchgoing of his youth has had a cumulative effect. But, he adds, "the Christ story impresses me in heroic, not religious, terms...
...heroic adman learns that his son was set up to preserve the effectiveness of a British-run mole in the I.R.A. Maas cuts a clear line between his sympathy for the Irish cause and his aversion to cold-blooded violence. There is ice, too, in the veins of Britain's counterterrorists, and hypocrisy in the Republic of Ireland, whose constitution includes all of the Emerald Isle in its national territory. As one insider puts it, "It was an open secret that given its domestic economic woes, the last thing the republic's leadership wanted was to take on the burden...
...speech attended by the consul-generals of Portugal and Israel and by School Committee member Lawrence Weinstein, University of New Hampshire professor Douglas Wheeler told his audience of the heroic exploits of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese consul-general in Bordeaux, France during World...
...decade of money fever. It's almost impossible for people to be free of the burning itch for money. It's a decade not likely to produce heroic figures...
...Nineteen sixty-eight was a perverse genius of a year: a masterpiece of shatterings. The year had heroic historical size, and everything except Tiny Tim's falsetto seemed momentous. Temperaments grew addicted to apocalypse. The printer's ink from the papers that announced it all would smudge and smudge the fingers: history every day dirtied the hands...