“An attempt was made to heroize him, but he withdrew to the seclusion of his room and would see no one.”

“Flint's admiration for his subject leads him to heroize and to underplay problematic episodes, such as Le Corbusier's work for the Vichy regime.”

“The tyranny associated by Renaissance humanists with the age of chivalric knights and with the knight figure caused romances that heroize the bygone age to fall into disfavor.”

“Aristotle's beliefs in the hymn heroised and divinised Hermias to an extent that ordinary Greek religion did not allow.”

“The models of the drawings often become classicised, even heroised.”

“But in actuality, the leading Minimalists have been hardly less heroized than prior members of the elite of art historical canons.”

“Similarly controversial is the re-emergence of the theory that the iconography of the Parthenon frieze celebrates the heroized dead of the battle of Marathon.”

“I'm sick of the lassitude, sick of the despair and the heroising of banality.”