They had a genuinely heroic (and intelligent) protagonist, an eccentric M (James Bond)-type boss, and menacing villains.

He gives Tucker's optimism great charm, then turns it into something genuinely heroic once it crashes head-on into the exigencies of American business.

Only something genuinely heroic now can restore his damaged reputation in the eyes of his men.

What he does may be genuinely heroic.

There is no genuinely heroic tone in the books.

The balloonists seem genuinely heroic: They endure cramped quarters and subzero temperatures, and they face real danger.

For 36 hours the 596th continued this genuinely heroic effort.

I find these characters, Armstrong, Ellington, working in a Jim Crow world, genuinely heroic.

He then evolves to become genuinely heroic, volunteering to sacrifice his life to save Tintin's own in the pivotal Tintin in Tibet.