Perhaps what's most remarkable is that so many people, rather than helping with whatever heroic task was at hand, were out taking pictures.

He is the poet dedicated from the beginning to a high heroic task.

These were heroic tasks, and fully justify the new Roosevelt memorial that will be dedicated May 2 in Washington.

Abbas faced a heroic task for which he needed help from all.

She, too, will give out a heroic task to prove your worth for her help.

Lovers were supposed to perform heroic tasks to prove their worthiness.

If only she had continued to prove worthy of that heroic task.

Trying to reverse this degree of damage is a heroic task and may not even be possible.

But keeping partisanship out will be a heroic task in the environment of mutual denunciation and distrust that the intense budget battle is generating.