With rebellion came the birth of a terrible beauty and, for the rebels, a rebirth as heroes and martyrs.
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Why don't they get big arias that mark them as the true heroes of the story?
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In his view, we all are heroes on an epic quest!
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Instead, their working boy heroes tend to be idealized.
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In the early music dramas the heroes claim for themselves large fields of action.
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The heroes include warriors and minstrels, merchants and vagabonds, but also such fantastic symbols of nature as dragons and mermaids.
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Although he was not a wholly sympathetic or endearing character in the manner of most traditional heroes or protagonists, he did invite some reader identification.
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The men taking part saw themselves as 'dashing' (fengliu) or even as heroes (yingxiong), not as hoodlums (liumang).
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Everyone wanted to claim the returning heroes as their own.
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The heroes of architecture commonly put forward a position, and invoke an attitude.
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Only 19 heroes in the 45 novels were wealthy, and 10 were actually poor!
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The region does, however, have many unsung heroes, especially among the middle-class manufacturers who were at the heart of so much of her writing.
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Unlike the civilian politicians who might have been more suitable for the presidency, they were national heroes even before they moved into the national palace.
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A number of them received top international awards for magic, were hailed as national heroes and seen on a par with their western counterparts.
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When those ancestral heroes and producers inhabit a geographically distant locale, objects and artisans (perhaps even styles) from that place assume a special significance.
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Collocationswithhero
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action hero
However, they also wanted him to grow more flexible near the end of the film, transforming into anactionhero.
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fallen hero
Some of the poems are in the form of elegies in tribute to afallenhero.
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greatest hero
He is known for having thegreatestheroroles in many films in the period 1970-1990.
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