Tobias is shown as heroically standing at his master's side as the waves of attacking slaves close in, made to look like a subhuman horde of vampiric, zombie barbarians biting away at the Colonel's men.

An instance (see: "The Language of Tourism") was Roy Dunstan's full-length portrait entitled "Jimmy" of 1935, standing heroically with a spear and gazing to the distance.

The triumphant king is shown standing heroically on the backs of prostrate captives - the Maya version of a photo-op.

"Our soldiers are heroically standing up to the attack, and I say that we will not put our tail between our legs and leave."

Following this the Greek fleet blockaded the adjacent seas to prevent naval invasion and provisions for the enemy of 300 Spartans who stood heroically at Thermopylae pass.

"It is a Lebanese reality," one that has "stood heroically" against Israel and forced it to withdraw from southern Lebanon.

Each of us was determined to stand heroically, wide awake and impervious to the lingering chill in the night air.

At the end, the scene once again shifts to a Heineken advertisement saying "Get Connected, Heineken," but with Xiao Xiao standing heroically on top the bottle.

I'm sure when this is all over some idealistic monument sculptor will have him standing heroically gazing skyward next to his wreck, but he was a bit more bashed up than that.

Huge silver cisterns stand heroically at the entrance and glint in the sun.