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At the same time, it is unacceptable to stimulate and warrant suicide and heroize suicide committer.

But I did heroize Donald Zec, not least because he cut so unheroic a figure.

Heroize her pls, rt or tweet re Bahia Amawi who was

They at first had tried to retrieve the shabu, but feigned a bust to heroize themselves after preparations went awry.

(150) Unsurprisingly, press accounts of the attack did not heroize Williams but now left the impression that she was growing unhinged, (151) or, at least, morose.

This "divine" interpretation was widely approved by Argentinian writers, who could thus construe (and heroize) Maradona and his goal, as he himself heroized it, as a payback of sorts for Britain's defeat of Argentina in the Falklands War where the equivalent of the divine hand was, in some Argentinian eyes, Ronald Reagan's.

Rather than heroize motherhood as it is often portrayed in Chicano/Latino culture, Carrasco's image provides a rhetorical reconstitution of Chicana women as imprisoned by the pressures of motherhood from which they cannot escape.

This is not 1961: there is no galvanizing historical context akin to the Cold War, no likely politician who can heroize the difficult and dangerous, no body of engineers who yearn for the productive regimentation they had enjoyed in the military, and no popular faith in a science-fictional mythology such as exploring the solar system.

Although Maoist-era socialist realists depicted the socially dispossessed, they tended to heroize them by "typifying" and abstracting them into larger sociopolitical categories and narratives.

It is true that part of Epiphanius's impetus in recounting this anecdote is to heroize orthodoxy.

One thing I want to be very scrupulous about--it's always a danger in autobiographical writing to heroize yourself.

The temptation among Miltonists tends to be either to heroize Adam's decision, pace Waldock, or to offer various judicious alternatives to what Adam should have done.