Word: heroic
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Nonetheless, the works conquer their unfortunate setting. There was never more heroic ornament than the exhibition's massive early Christian torques, with their thick bosses and twisted gold flanges. And it is impossible to imagine a greater virtuosity of technique than the minutely elaborate gold-wire filigree of treasures like the 8th century Tara brooch, or the magnificently precise inlaying, chasing and enameling of the silver Ardagh chalice...
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...disappointment"; he had renounced hope, the one virtue he believed essential to life. This sort of intuitive speculation, intimate but never condescending, recalls Johnson's own method in Lives of the Poets. No other biographer of Johnson has meditated so profitably on the qualities that made him "a heroic, intensely honest, and articulate pilgrim in the strange adventure of human life." James Atlas
...best Tolkien's posthumous revelation of his private mythology is majestic, a work held so long and so power fully in the writer's imagination that it overwhelms the reader. Like Tolkien's other books, The Silmarillion presents a doomed but heroic view of creation that may be one of the reasons why a generation growing up on the thin gruel of tele vision drama, and the beardless cynicism of Mad magazine, first found J.R.R. Tol kien so rich and wonderful. Says proud Fëanor, explaining why he will not give up to the Valar...
...Zinnemann occasionally lapses into such cliches as juxtaposing plush hotels with Nazi terror to make statements about inequality--a gimmick that should have gone out with War and Peace--his direction is usually sound and the cast generally rises above any momentary awkwardness. To some, Lillian Hellman is a heroic cult figure; to others she is a commercialized martyr. In Julia, though, she is simply human, retracing in her memory a cherished portrait...