They find it difficult to admit, except in passing, the richness of the Pope's thought or the attraction of his heroic vision of Christian discipleship.

But there is something to be said for epic, heroic visions, even wrongheaded, belligerent ones.

Civilisation brought advances in material terms but also artificiality and corruption and a loss of the heroic vision of earlier periods.

Mr. Chihuly, however, has concentrated on taking blown glass to a scale that matches or sets a heroic vision against a process fraught with risk.

The female epic examines ways in which female authors have adapted the masculine epic tradition to express their own heroic visions.

Other French commentators affirmed that the Pope's appeal to the young was rooted in his heroic, perhaps romantically heroic, vision of Christianity.

Still, if "Tanner" doesn't present a heroic vision for politicians, it offers something else - a perverse respect for the people just outside the camera's vision.

"Star Trek" painted a noble, heroic vision of the future, and that vision became my lodestar.

He has that heroic vision.

A heroic vision that might be lost on some.