It centers on the person of Achilles, who embodied the Greek heroic ideal.

Many commentators regard Seven Samurai as the ultimate expression of the artist's heroic ideal.

As Kurosawa's career progressed he seemed to find it increasingly difficult to sustain the heroic ideal.

Michelangelo fell out of fashion, but he remained a persona, the heroic ideal of the artist.

You will obey my order and forget the heroic ideals.

He sheltered the weak and protected the helpless as a living embodiment of the heroic ideal.

But his continuing belief in the heroic ideal had been part of what had drawn him to the military.

He was a physically weak young boy with asthma, born to privilege but dedicated to personal achievement, political reform, and the heroic ideal.

In his works Evola calls for the "reawakening of heroic ideals" and spiritualism through war.

Jazz is a soloist's art - that's the prevailing presumption, anyway - and it's not easy to subvert the heroic ideal.