Sentences with phrase «heroic feat»

It was a truly heroic feat of technology, wrestling with drills stuck a kilometer down, at temperatures so low that a puff of breath fell to the ground in glittering crystals.

They perform heroic feats with scarce time, limited resources and against all odds.

Despite some improvements over the past year, it doesn't always produce the best results, sometimes shunning heroic feats in favour of tedious Bastion and Torbjorn clips as they stand there, unmoving, pumping out huge amounts of damage over a short period.

The World War II movie Hacksaw Ridge, which tells the story of a conscientious objector, Desmond Doss, who achieved heroic feats on the battlefield as a medic despite not carrying a weapon, arrives on home video in a Blu - ray + DVD set that also includes a code for a digital copy.

Papa doesn't actually get to keep the vast majority of that money unless he pulls off a truly heroic feat with Valeant's stock price, a maneuver so seemingly impossible that the accomplishment would not only make him a darling on Wall Street, but it could put him in the hall of fame of corporate turnaround artists.

It is hard to imagine any feat, no matter how heroic, that might make the world stand still, as Lindbergh's did 80 years ago; and it is easy to imagine the public's appetite for heroic feats diminishing as their number increases.

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These abilities might sound like emotional superpowers, but according to author Nick Morgan, the human brain is capable of some pretty heroic feats of emotional projection and understanding.

And one of the things we had is the space shuttle and, of course, we all [love] the space shuttle in a lot of ways historic heroic feats, certainly it's done — we wouldn't have a lot of thing such as the ISS or Hubble space telescope up there.

The epic cast for this epic series is long; but look for Nonso Anozie as Samson (as in the story of Samson and Delilah)-- the Israelite who was granted supernatural strength by God (his strength is in his hair) in order to combat his enemies and perform heroic feats like wrestling a lion, and slaying an entire army (photo above); and also Keith David provides voice - overs throughout.

If you enter Gotham City repeatedly, you will have different heroic feats every time.

His improbable heroic feat opens up two possible readings: activating the landscape through performance and direct experience; and analysing dysfunctionality in art, a context that can unleash great strength and energy for ventures unbound by the conventions that govern our environment.

Over the last three decades of his life, he sought to go beyond Hegel's heroic feat of «metaphysical closure» by further enclosing the whole history of Western metaphysics (of which Hegel's system is merely the most imposing synthetic expression) within the still larger story of «being» as such, and to tell that story in a language so purged of all inherited conceptual terms and grammars that it could never be enfolded within the language of metaphysics again.

Like many fictional characters that ultimately perform heroic feats, (Batman, Spider - Man, Superman, even Frodo Baggins and Harry Potter) Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) is orphaned.

Someone in Ottawa appears to have decided the government should get some credit for that heroic feat, lest the public see it as some kind of fluke.

To invoke both Rand and Jesus is a heroic feat indeed.

It was a heroic feat that these guys even showed up to the game.

Walter Scott of Grimsby Town was the first goalkeeper to save three penalties in a single game; he performed this heroic feat in 1909 against Burnley.

The match went into extra time, and Ghana appeared more likely to repeat their heroic feat against USA.

First, women do not chose natural birth because it is some heroic feat.

The present - day action commences with Kal as a bearded adult drifter, working on a coastal trawler, but destined to move on after some heroic feat threatens to expose his identity.

His heroic feats are earthly, not otherworldly, whether he's decimating Huron war parties with bladed weapons or using his long rifle to pick off potential killers of a British messenger.

Each world area has its full story missions, but also has «heroic feats,» the aforementioned sidequests.

In the gaming world, virtual rewards recognise players» growing skills and heroic feats.

When we do leave town and gun it on the Palms to Pines Highway, we find the V12 Vantage S blithely capable of heroic feats.

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A weekly roundup of good deeds, missteps, heroic feats and epic failures in the tri-state region and beyond.

Mike Ferrante, MBA CENTURY 21 Homestar — 21 Mike Team I'm a huge fan of comics, especially superheroes, so when I think about great stories, I think of heroic feats.