Sentences with phrase «folks hero»

He began to be portrayed as a kind of folk hero, though he had helped build and protect a growing industry of puppy mills.

He finished with 16 points on 5 - of - 8 shooting from the field, forever establishing himself as a national championship folk hero.

Save the world from destruction with the aid of your trusty wagon and become a legendary folk hero!

Our everyday lives have become so consumed by partisan politics that fabulously wealthy and powerful CEOs can become folk heroes for defying a president.

As they hunt down and kill one notorious gangster after another, they become controversial folk heroes in the community, with an eccentric FBI agent on their blood - soaked trail.

BANDITS (Grade: B): In this overlong and familiar but still mostly enjoyable road comedy, Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton play a Butch & Sundance - like pair of Oregon bank robbers who become folk heroes.

Whitehead contrasts the African American folk hero John Henry, the «steel - driving man,» with a struggling African American journalist in this funny, inventive, and bittersweet novel contrasting the industrial and information ages.

Elected as a PC MLA in 2008 and ejected in 2010, Dr. Sherman immediately enjoyed folk hero status as an Independent MLA for criticizing the PC Government's record on health care.

That's especially true for quarterbacks, often hailed as local folk heroes whose legends only grow as they move on to one of the state's many college powerhouses.

From Robin Hood to Jesse James, we've always had a soft spot for outlaws, idealizing them as folk heroes and romanticizing them as rebels.

But tenacious child services officer Paula (Rachel House) thinks that the bereaved Hector has kidnapped Ricky, and she'll do whatever it takes to get him back, launching a nationwide manhunt that turns the two fugitives into folk heroes.

Yes, it's the sort of vigilante justice that makes folk heroes popular, but it's also a moral heart that has only become more necessary.

As a result, Qixiong became an instant folk hero in China.

There's no way you won't be captivated by Wallis, chosen ahead of 3,500 candidates to play the tiny folk hero who narrates the story.

The analogy I used when I was startled by a similarly lame attempt at proof by an otherwise intelligent fellow grad student is that using the bible to prove the resurrection is like using the Old Irish tales I had been studying then to prove the superhuman powers of Irish folk hero Cu Chulainn.

Born in Bremen, Germany, Bert Trautmann overcame prejudice and open hostility - from both opposition supporters and his own - to become an unlikely folk hero in post-war Manchester.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has become a Turkish folk hero this week, gaining more than 200,000 new Twitter followers as Turks showered him with praise for busting a reviled businessman from back home.

We walked along a rickety jetty and proceeded down the narrow woodland path which took us deeper into the arms of the forest until we reached our first point of interest — an ancient burial ground belonging to the legendary McGregor clan, kin of the beloved Scottish folk hero Rob Roy.

Whitehead conducts an inventive, funny, and bittersweet inquiry into the significance of folk hero John Henry by paralleling the legend of the steel - driving man who took on the Industrial Revolution with the story of a cynical black writer, who pits himself against the Information Age.

Robert Culp co-stars as a newspaperman who sees a big story in Wilma — the dispossessed victim turned folk hero outlaw — and ends up helping her mission of revenge.

The three started to chat about film budgets etc., when talk about collaborating on Folk Hero came up.

Ridley Scott's film, therefore, has a difficult challenge of trying to portray Lucas as an ambitious, enviable folk hero even while occasionally showing just what kind of abominable destruction he conveyed to everyone around him.

Increasingly disillusioned with American politics and the government's abandonment of its poorest citizens, Guthrie was compelled to speak out, tirelessly crisscrossing the nation to entertain and advocate for the nation's poorest people with his songs, eventually earning himself a permanent place as one of America's great folk heroes.

And it made the 30 - year - old entrepreneur an immediate folk hero in working - class America.

In PART 2, crypto folk hero Amir Taaki shares his thoughts on past projects and AltCoins, while pointing to a philosophical paradox he sees in Bitcoin.

His political capital as Alberta's political folk hero was quickly diminished as the PCs used a narrowly focused health care inquiry to publicly discredit his claims.

Before Osama was a notorious revolutionary folk hero of the Islamic world, he was actually just a man, with a vision, with incredible desire and will to try to create something he believed would liberate his people.

A new folk hero was born the afternoon our diminutive pastor baptized all 12 without losing one.

There is no doubt that the Vatican's image suffered as a consequence of a punitive action, suited (if at all) to other centuries than our own, while Boff became an instant folk hero throughout the Third World.

The pregame introductions were entertaining enough, with Indians fans going absolutely wild for folk hero Ryan Merritt.

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He was leading the team with the best record in the Eastern Conference and turning fourth quarters into performance art while becoming a Boston folk hero.

The Yankees rallied to win 4 - 3, conveying folk hero status on the fan.

European Parliament rules have been designed to frustrate the project - but if Mark can pull it off, he will attain folk hero status among Tory eurosceptics.

Even liberal folk hero Robert Reich stated at the time the tax was a horrible idea.

By Jeff Moore Wisconsin folk hero Earl Giefer, 94 years cool, decided he'd like to be able to look himself in the mirror every morning rather than take an easy $ 1.2 million from the city of Oak Creek for his...

The «chubby Buddha» or «laughing Buddha» is actually based on a jolly 10th - century Chinese folk hero by the name of Budai.

Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple Computers who died this week, had a reputation as a passionate business leader and a modern folk hero.

Aviators as barnstormers quickly became an endearing folk hero; and also businessman carrying mail and passengers.

Instead, he's star - struck meeting Ricky (newly anointed folk hero for being a widely sought - after fugitive) and proceeds to take selfies with him.

The story picks up after the previous edition of the Hunger Games, when underdog survivors Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) begin a victory tour throughout the districts of Panem at the request of the government, which aims to turn them into puppets and romantic folk heroes.

You know: roguish folk hero stays a step ahead of the Sheriff of Nottingham, steals from the rich, gives to the poor, woos Maid Marion, buckles his swash with the Merry Men in Sherwood Forest and performs mind blowing feats with a bow and arrow.

The movie captures The Doctor's arc, from rising folk hero to a weakened man who's both isolated by the very own movement he helped create and persecuted by the Mexican government.

The 27 - year - old Scottish actor will star opposite «Downton Abbey's» Lily James, who will play the titular folk hero in the movie, which will hit theaters next year.

The latter is an origin story for the eponymous folk hero that is currently in production for a Spring 2018 theatrical release date, with Taron Egerton (Kingsman: The Secret Service) and Oscar - winner Jamie Foxx starring as a young Robin Hood and Little John, respectively.

Ian and Frank decide their story needs characters, and so they create a noble folk hero to generate human interest, a rebel fighter bravely sacrificing his life for his people.

Reynolds» fans should enjoy this pre-Smokey and the Bandit vehicle that helped solidify the persona and Southern folk hero image that he would make famous just a couple of years later.