Noun (1)A motto of his hero, Thomas Edison, is inscribed on a favorite sweatshirt : "To invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." Britt Robson, Mother Jones, May/June 2008Greater authors—Arthur Conan Doyle most notably—have been in the same dilemma when seeking closure. And, like Conan Doyle, Rowling has won imperishable renown for giving us an identifiable hero and a fine caricature of a villain, and for making a fictional bit of King's Cross station as luminous as a certain address on nearby Baker Street. Christopher Hitchens, New York Times Book Review, 12 Aug. 2007Here's a novel by a decorated war hero with a fictional Middle Eastern desert war at its core. It pits an American-led coalition against a potentially lethal enemy … Lorenzo Carcaterra, People, 3 June 1991Other physicists, long wedded to the notion that nothing can escape from a black hole, have generally come to accept that discovery. And the stuff emitted from little black holes (and big ones too, but far more slowly) is now called Hawking radiation. "In general relativity and early cosmology, Hawking is the hero," says Rocky Kolb, a physicist at Fermilab in Illinois. Leon Jaroff, Time, 8 Feb. 1988 He returned from the war a national hero. the hero of a rescue She was a hero for standing up to the government. His father has always been his hero. He has always been a hero to his son. See More
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To say the scene outside of the Weird premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday night was enthusiastic would be understating both the amount of Yankomania on display and how seriously these disciples worshiped their hero. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2022 As these visions grow more intense, our budding hero must answer the call, embarking on an adventure with Isha to uncover his destiny. Courtney Howard, Variety, 8 Sep. 2022 Set after the events of Avengers: Endgame, Love and Thunder finds our hero in a bit of a midlife crisis. Devan Coggan, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2022 That all changed on Monday, when our hero shocked the tennis world by defeating the legendary Spaniard Rafael Nadal, winner of 22 major championships. James Freeman, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2022 But much like his hero John Lennon, Gallagher’s acoustic chops remain at the root of Oasis’ most enduring songs. Spin Staff, SPIN, 6 Sep. 2022 My hero, @MichaelBuble, gave me the most incredible moment of my life thus far. Marc Bona, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2022 His followers piled into the stock, thinking their hero would work his magic and use his shareholder power to force change at the company. Allison Morrow, CNN, 31 Aug. 2022 Your little hero will surely save the day in this firefighter Halloween costume. Amy Mitchell, Country Living, 30 Aug. 2022 See More