And Mr. Lescure suddenly found himself in the unlikely role of patriotic hero.

At the end of the 1930s, America was feeling patriotic, and The Shield was the first patriotic hero.

In a sense, the results of the Iran-contra prosecutions reflect the public's ambivalence about the whether its participants were patriotic heroes or villainous zealots.

In their eyes Sandino was a patriotic hero, not a bandit.

A tale of a patriotic hero (Robin Hood like) who was later enlisted into the communist forces during the war against Japanese.

The last film is unusual as the bikers are portrayed as patriotic heroes sent on a rescue mission to Vietnam.

He is often considered both a comic figure as well as the patriotic hero, even if the latter more often comes from the necessity of the moment.

But, in India, people consider him a patriotic hero of the Indian independence movement.

He signed this letter 'Your Mathathias,' thus comparing himself and his sons to the patriotic heroes of the Maccabæan house.

Nothing was further from the thoughts of that wise and patriotic hero than ideas of destruction.