Word: heroical
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...letters of Flaubert note in the main artistic procedure and the painful battle of the artist with the elements of his craft. Stevenson also is revealed as a laboring artist, but the vivid epistles written from Samoa to Mr. Sidney Colvin exhibit varied and significant traits of the heroic yet very human man as well as of the brilliant writer waging an unequal warfare with life...
...fortune a gap, left by a misunderstanding, in the Union centre. Six whole divisions burst through and hurled back the Federal right in utter confusion. Rosecrans himself was drawn into the flight and thought all was lost. At this crisis, Thomas threw himself in the breach, and by his heroic firmness and skill, held the road to Chattanooga for six hours, against the whole strength of the victorious enemy. His force of 25,000 dwindled to 15,000. Ammunition gave out. But the gallant division repelled the last charge with cold steel, and withdrew at nightfall in perfect order...
...whose character is saturated with the Christian prayers, hopes and theologies of their fathers, that Christ and His Church, having done their work, must now give way to the ascendancy of culture and reason and ethics. To repeat the words of James Russell Lowell, they are 'degenerate sons of heroic ancestors, who, having been trained in a society educated in schools, the foundations of which were laid by men of faith and piety, now turn and kick down the ladder by which they have climbed up and persuade men to live without God and leave them to die without hope...
...shedding, not the use of blood after its being shed. He has in mind the self-sacrificing of men for the life of others, - Esther interposing herself to save the Jews, or the engineer standing by his engine as it rushes on to certain destruction. This spark of heroic fire which is in men is God-like; and Jew or Christian, Mohammedan or Pagan, who can look death in the face and say, "Where, O grave, are thy plagues," is victor over death and is redeemed from the grave. Jesus Christ was such a martyr, for he interposed his life...
...been of but secondary importance, suddenly steps to the front, she commands our attention, holding us transfixed while present and claiming our thoughts while absent. She is no longer the degraded wife, worthy only of loathing, she struggles against her fate, is vanquished, but not without making the most heroic efforts to overcome the poison of her passion. Before we finish the play she has not only succeeded in interesting us, but she has won our pity and sympathy; nothing could be a greater tribute to the genius of Racine than this acknowledgment which every reader of the play must...