There are moments when Nietzsche's heroic stance, bombastic and rather hysterical, is very nice.

Now, in the ladies' romances, such encounters are full of brave oaths and heroic stances.

Mara assumed an heroic stance, arms folded across her thin chest.

And so," she said, resuming the heroic stance, "I left Arnisson that very night.

Despite his heroic stance, the sick pallor of his face and his trembling arm showed that he expected no lightning to come.

When the rise of the counterculture put an end to that, Romantic rebellion ceased to be the heroic stance of genius.

Wade took a heroic stance between the two parapets.

Before the cold touched my brain I found a last moment in which to assume a heroic stance.

The heroic stance was a bit much, but MacAllister was nonetheless impressed by his behavior.

It's not that that's this heroic stance.