Word: heroicizing
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These may include, among many others, the heroic man of many devices that Homer presents to us in the character of Odysseus, the phronimos, or person of practical wisdom, portrayed by Aristotle, the Christ figure as presented in the New Testament or as interpreted by Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, Luther, Milton, Pascal, Kierkegaard, and Dostoyevsy (to name but a few), the committed friend valorized by Montaigne, the citizen of the Kingdom of Ends described by Kant, the free spirit praised by Nietzsche, and so on. A similarly lengthy list could be compiled of those figures—from Lucifer to Macbeth...
...quickness, and that guy did,” said Harvard coach Dave Fish ’72. “And he had just a little bit more.” Clayton would not have had to the chance to win had it not been for the heroic performance of No. 5 senior Gideon Valkin, who fought through crippling cramps in the last four games to win the third set of his match, 7-5. Though he won his first set handily, by a score of 6-2, Valkin seemed tired in his second set and lost...
...also helps trigger his homicidal impulses. He commits a murder to satisfy her besmirched honor; he sees his crime as an act of chivalric protectiveness that will endear him to lovely Lady M., and might prove to her that he's not a troubled child but a heroic man. Now we're tiptoeing toward Oedipus Rex: Will Hannibal kill a man in order to have sex with his aunt...
...author, ''but an exemplary state.'' Israel was born with monumental ambitions and evoked heroic expectations. Israelis are extraordinarily sensitive about their image, in part because of the 2,000 years in which Jews had to worry, for their survival, about the opinions of the Gentiles around them. ''Israelis feel they are a people walking a high ledge,'' says Oz. It is not only fair but necessary to ask if Israel has lost its way. Surrounded by nations that have tried to destroy it in five wars in 40 years, and now engaged in fighting a Palestinian uprising, Israel cannot afford...
...Great Comic Book Heroes - a greatly comic and, in its way, heroic book - Jules Feiffer describes the odd spectacle of middle-aged men "who continue to be addicts, who save old comic books, buy them, trade them, and will, many of them, pay up to fifty dollars for the first issues of Superman or Batman...