Word: heroicize
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...Carlos (J.C. for short) remains loving through this Calvary of abuse. In so many of his films, a Pedro smile or tear or grimace? make the wildest plot twist plausible (almost). A great spirit must endure great suffering. His silent soldiering-on here is no less heroic than the dreadful beating he takes, and then dishes out, during the Pepe el Toro boxing match. As the ringside announcer says with awe in that movie, "His heart is so big, his chest can't contain...
...Verhoeven than the grim reaping of wartime and he does not blink at showing them. They are, in fact, the most shocking and subversive and hard to accept of all his images. We didn't want to see people we've always thought of as heroes in an anti-heroic light. And now we don't want to see people we think of as noble victims turn into ignoble victimizers...
...tough to lose,” Fish said, “but I felt that to come out of there with a win last night would have been almost heroic...
...cushion for the home team. “It was tough to lose,” said Crimson coach Dave Fish ’72, “but I felt that to come out of there with a win last night would have been almost heroic.” The Bulldogs clinched the victory with a win in the second to last match to end. At No. 6, Sasha Ermakov won his first set, 6-3, and looked to be cruising toward a win. With Ermakov up 3-2 in the second set—and with a chance...
...their body armor. (Thee closing credits list two "personal trainers to Mr. Butler, so I guess the muscles aren't all CGI.) They boast and tease each other about their physiques, which to me sounds like flirting. At times these ancient bodybuilders look like their own statuary, heroic and sometimes headless...