We can surely expect a more heroic portrait that paints with broader strokes and eliminates the warts.

Paintings often showed heroic portraits of the leader, or landscapes showing huge fields of wheat.

The lobby is decorated with heroic portraits of past men's and women's All American hockey players.

Paper money, with all its mythic invocations and heroic portraits, may become superfluous.

These are heroic portraits, sweetly sympathetic, by a gifted and attentive artist.

I don't believe they ever lied to me, but it was clear that they wanted to present a heroic portrait of their father.

A detail to be added to your heroic portrait of me.

Yet on the whole, he draws a heroic portrait of Dr. Chu.

Most prominent was the best of the lot, a heroic portrait of a person not even a terrible painter could ruin entirely.

The Bounty also paints a far less heroic portrait of Christian.