"They couldn't be the larger-than-life heroes who are usually depicted in these epics," he sad.

Girls these days have precious few larger-than-life heroes, especially in the all-important realm of fantasy.

Many movies made in this period built on Mohanlal's image as an invincible, larger-than-life hero.

The story of Galileo is not about a larger-than-life hero, but of someone understandably human.

Still, at age 43, Davis remembers his hometown through the prism of young boy with larger-than-life heroes.

For the American people, he was the first larger-than-life national hero, something a new nation arguably needs to survive.

Van Cliburn is the kind of larger-than-life hero Americans love to create.

His image as a "boy next door" contrasted with the larger-than-life heroes prevalent at that time in Indian cinema.

Hammann, like fellow communist prisoners, was presented as a larger-than-life hero of resistance.

A larger-than-life hero and a plausible rogue, all in one.