Why read stories concerning unheroic, unlovely people who fail to realise the futility of their modest dreams? |
It's a book discussing what makes a military leader, and goes through examples of the hero, the anti-hero, the unheroic, and the false heroic. |
He must be unheroic and yet brave, gauche and yet practical, ill and yet strong. |
Chances are the story will be bogus or, even if genuine, the publicity process will render the hero decidedly unheroic. |
I felt that, in disobeying the law, I was honouring them in my own small, unheroic and doubtless futile way. |
We've rarely seen him in such unheroic mode, though he does radiate the intensity of a desperate dad. |