Sentences with phrase «of war heroes»

Domanović sees a deeper meaning in the replacement of war heroes with pop figures.

Instead of war heroes (who would have been immortalized by classical monuments), local authorities now decide to eternalize Hollywood stars and heroes of the Western world in bronze.

Players will be able to enjoy more maps, missions, and recruit a talented crew of war heroes for battling real opponents in online arenas.

This Memorial Day, I hope you enjoy your time with family and friends as you celebrate freedom in honor of our war heroes — the fury ones included.

This hilarious first novel is set in 2004, at the height of the Iraq War, and finds a troop of war heroes teaming up with the Dallas Cowboys for one surreal 24 - hour period.

«Study reveals sexual appeal of war heroes.»

The vast majority of war heroes, leaders of industry, etc..

Tomorrow, Congressman Serrano will be joined by local elected officials for the renaming ceremony of the Morris Heights Post Office in honor of Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Jr., in order to commemorate the life and legacy of a war hero, civil rights, and community leader.

To say that somehow he's less of a war hero than others because he was just a prisoner of war — I think that's reprehensible.»

Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, has come home with the shine of a war hero.

So Mad Max (an apocalyptic and brutal wasteland), Danganronpa (a series about kids being forced to kill each other) and Metal Gear Solid V (the story of a war hero turned criminal) are childish?

Otello: The Metropolitan Opera's movie - theater encores Giuseppe Verdi's adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy of a war hero tricked into thinking his wife is unfaithful.

Among the rewards was the greater marital eligibility of a war hero, a sports hero, or a working class man who took a hazardous job to feed his family.

Not exact matches

«It is the American flag that is draped across the coffins of our fallen heroes when they come back from war.

Next week Merkel will for the first time speak at Gamescom, Europe's biggest computer games trade show that's expected to draw about 350,000 visitors, many of them teenagers who attend dressed like their favorite digital heroes — from Star Wars stormtroopers to Manga heroines and fantasy game sorcerers.

When prime - time hosts — who have never served our country in any capacity — dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller — all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of «deep - state» machinations — I can not be part of the same organization, even at a remove.

One of my childhood heroes was the pilot Douglas Bader, who lost both his legs in a crash early in his career but went on to fly fighter planes for the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

While it doesn't tell us anything about the aftermath of «Infinity War,» there are some clues hinting at a new hero and more about the Quantum Realm which will almost definitely come into play in next year's superhero sequel.

«In the aftermath of «Captain America: Civil War,» Scott Lang grapples with the consequences of his choices as both a Super Hero and a father.

When an illness forced General John Stark, the state's most distinguished Revolutionary War hero, to decline an invitation to the 32nd anniversary reunion of an important battle, he instead sent a written toast to his wartime comrades.

While the Boer War proved disastrous for the British in many regards, most Britons lionized the hero of the Transvaal and in 1914 looked to him to lead them back to their former heights of imperial magnificence.

What it's about: «Sargeant York» may have been about World War I — a sharpshooter becomes an unexpected hero after attacking and capturing a German position using the same strategy as turkey hunting — but the American - proud movie became a point of major discussion in the United States over the merits of entering World War II.

Though it is easy to tell whence Loeb's confusion comes from, reading his description of Broadwell, who - far from the tabloid-esque accounts of a spoiled «prom queen» - comes off, indeed, as a very unlikely «other woman» for the closest thing America has to a modern day war hero.

But when a local school principal recently introduced him as a war hero to a gathering of students, Scardino felt embarrassed.

While the president attacks 99 percent of his opponents by mercilessly strafing them in speeches, sound bites and tweets (and has a one - size - fits - all approach to firebombing Democrats, disobedient Republicans, Gold Star families, war heroes, etc.), Daniels fends off her online critics with self - deprecating humor, and has made a point of refraining from saying anything bad about the president himself — which has probably kept him from retaliating and going after her personally.

He is stripped of his last illusions when a female acquaintance denounces the men who thought war would make them heroes:

Through a series of daring escapades and adventures among a dangerous underworld, Han Solo meets future copilot Chewbacca and encounters notorious gambler Lando Calrissian in a journey that sets the course of one of the Star Wars saga's most unlikely heroes.

One could be forgiven for thinking that Gregory Hanlon's The Hero of Italy: Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma, his Soldiers, and his Subjects in the Thirty Years» War is titled backwards.

We don't have much to go on regarding what Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 3 is going to be about yet, assuming our heroes survive their upcoming Avengers crossover in Infinity War.

And just when I feel sorry for myself I hear a story by a holocaust survivor, a war hero, or a survivor of human slavery and I realize I have nothing to complain about.

I don't know what fraction of the fallen dead they would regard as «heroes», but whatever it is, it hasn't stopped many of them from opposing the Iraq War or the Afghan Surge.

McCloskey had been an early opponent of the Vietnam war, and therefore something of a hero on liberal campuses in the «60s, but few in his Berkeley audience seemed aware of that history.

The CCP stirs the nationalistic emotions of the people by contesting Japan over issues such as: the disputed territorial claims with China: its writing of history that omits Japanese atrocities in its invasion of China, and in recent visits by its leaders to Japan's Yasukuni shrine which honors national heroes including convicted war criminals.2

We want to «carry big sticks,» fight and win righteous wars, or return to an earlier age of heroes (Rambo style?).

But most of all, Roosevelt was to the Jews one of the major heroes of that great and good war.

«Calling millions of Christian victims of bloody civil wars «martyrs» is a bit like calling all the victims of 9/11 «heroes,» he wrote for The Washington Post in 2013.

His command of the decisive battle against the British at Yorktown earned him a hero's reputation after the war.

At a recent public gathering in the heart of the nation's capital, with former civil rights hero and disgraced Mayor Marion Barry on the podium as an object lesson, Farrakhan prepared his black audience for the coming race war.

The modest war hero probably could have published a best «seller in 1945, but he chose to tell his story only much later, when it seemed right to make his children aware of their heritage.

So that something of the elite of their dreams may pass into them, these infants are named after a war hero or a theatrical star, and it is believed that they will survive the rapid decline of their patron's glory, even though nothing of this glory may remain with them.

Lie referred to a stanza of Reginald Heber's hymn, «The Son of God Goes Forth to War» — a stanza inspired by past Christian heroes:

«I was painting spaceships, heroes and comic books, and drawing all this kind of fantasy art, and Star Wars was everything.

How are the heroes fallen and the weapons of war perished.10

The huge gallery surrounding the 18th green in the late afternoon shadows applauded these two survivors of so much Masters drama as if they were heroes returning from foreign wars.

Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie directs UNBROKEN, the epic drama adapted from the wildly popular New York Times Bestseller about the incredible life of Olympian and war hero Louie Zamperini.

Bird By Bird, Anne Lamott The War of Art, Steven Pressfield The Tools, Phil Stutz and Barry Michels The Modern Library Writer's Workshop, Stephen Koch Still Writing, Dani Shapiro The Situation and the Story, Vivian Gornick Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg The Hero's Journey, Joseph Campbell

It has gone from near - barren to bustling under the leadership of supervisor Jim Hobson, the former gang leader - turned - Vietnam War hero who organized this year's banquet just as he did for 11 years at his former park district post, Kiwanis Playground on the Far North Side.

When we think of heroes we think of brave war heroes, people acting in moments of adrenalin to save others etc. these might be national or community wide heroes We also use the word hero to mean someone we hold in extremely high esteem and look up to for any reason we see fit.

Maybe not the Superman kind of hero or the war veteran kind, but to the stranded motorist, to the struggling mother who can't pay her grocery bill, he's a hero of the best kind.

Maybe not the Superman kind of hero or the war veteran kind, but to that stranded motorist, to that struggling mother, he's a hero of the best kind.