Sentences with phrase «greatest heroic act»
The greatest heroic act, it turns out, is merely staying alive.
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It is one of the virtues of Quint's book (another is the generosity of critical annotation, amounting almost to a mini variorum edition) that Paradise Lost's still center is given a density so great that reading the poem becomes itself a heroic act; an act difficult to perform, but in its difficulty providing an experience few (if any) efforts of the human imagination are capable of provoking.
They were all larger than life and incidents of history are great heroic dramas or symbolic acts that still stir our hearts.