Sentences with phrase «makes 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.

His testimony at the trial (all avidly reported by the media) made him a folk hero overnight.

Rubber Duck's dealings with the authorities quickly makes him a folk hero for other truckers and those in the CB culture, who quickly engage in helping Duck out by following his lead in a convoy which stretches for over a mile.

Not exact matches

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

Persecuting the deniers would only give them the publicity that they desire and need, maybe even make them into martyrs or folk heroes.

The «mocking» of Chuck Norris has made him more of a folk hero than a tarnished has - been.

Mr. Donovan was Mr. Molinari's point man when the borough president was negotiating the closure of the city's garbage dump, known as the Fresh Kills Land Fill, an effort that would make Rudolph Giuliani, the Republican mayor, a folk hero of sorts in the borough.

As with John Wayne's Ethan Edwards (Travis's spiritual forefather), his thwarted patriarchal possessiveness is not tempered by anything like genuine concern, yet it is enough... to make him a peculiarly American folk hero.

What's strangely missing from this social picture is any image of the economic misery that made Dillinger a folk hero.

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.

We didn't make his sophisticated, subtle Shop Girl a hit, so he dishes out what he knows, alas, today's American audiences will gobble up greedily: a painful assemblage of distasteful slapstick (not one but two elderly and infirm folks are abused — by the putative hero, no less — in the opening moments of the film alone), cultural stereotyping, and celebrations of idiocy that will try the patience of anyone with a double - digit IQ or age.

Sometimes people who make B - movies end up becoming almost folk heroes, like Ed Wood or Tommy Wiseau, but that doesn't seem to happen in games.

Your team is made up of a diverse range of folk; young kids, war heroes, a fallen princesses, a banished Viera and a sky - pirate, and while the primary cast member Vann may be the worst character ever conceived in a Final Fantasy game, the cumulative impact of the remaining cast is profound.

The bogus bids made DeChristopher, now 29, a folk hero to many environmentalists, who've started a movement based on that single act.

I was inoculated against these jabs of advice way back in the 50s, thanks to Disney's TV show on Davy Crockett, an American folk hero, one episode of which (at least) had Davy counselling, «Make sure you're right, then go ahead.»

Since folks will be likely saving up their credits in hopes of buying heroes, they won't be spending them on crates, which provide essential in - game items that make your troopers and vehicles more powerful.