Meaning of heroicise | Babel Free

Definitions

Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe héroïciser.

Equivalents

Examples

“In La Route des Flandres, Blum's scepticism counters George's persistent, if ultimately defeated tendency to heroicise and idealise the family past.”

“The archly staged 'landing' scenes from this work in particular both sanitise and heroicise the encounter between Britons and 'Natives' in ways that later Britons could, in turn, see as both confirmation of a worthy purpose and a form of transaction, if not transfiguration, that might validate their presence in the distant colonial landscape.”

“Both forms have a specific resonance in Russia, albeit for quite different reasons: the war film was used in Soviet times first as a means to heroicise the state, and later to heroicise the soldier (he, in most cases, would give his life for the fatherland).”

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