When he strangles himself with his hat-band, one is quite satisfied with the unheroic manner of his taking-off.
This horrible suggestion, true essence of an unheroic age, which will not suffer a man to be absolutely sure of anything, disturbed his prayer as he knelt down in silence to ask God's blessing.
He endured the temptations arising from the state known to saintly writers as "spiritual dryness," and found those temptations of an inglorious and wholly unheroic sort.
Unheroic as he might be, John Eames was surely a better man and a bigger man than Adolphus Crosbie.
In his unheroic days he would have walked,--as he had done, scores of times, over the whole distance from Guestwick to Allington.
Such, in spite of every perverting influence, in the most unheroic times, is still our indestructible reverence for heroism.
Yes, hollow Formulism, gross Benthamism, and other unheroic atheistic Insincerity is visibly and even rapidly declining.
Having finally saved himself, the unheroic bachelor felt his deadened consideration for others slowly and reluctantly stirring into life.
And, gazing up in the silent darkness of the park, the unheroic young man began to think how he could go to Berringer's by the Center Street cars, and take his walks henceforth in the manufacturing district, and in far countrysides.
Thus the unheroic Charles confronted his Temporary Spinster at last, in her dark home-hall.
Esmond is a man of the first half of the eighteenth century; living in a coarse, drunken, ignorant, profligate, and altogether unheroic age.
I do not deny that it is more difficult to be heroic, while circumstances are unheroic round us.
And this necessitates a correspondinglyunheroic presentation of his heroes.
The boy's only companion was a man of small stature and unheroic spirit, whom the old chief could well spare.
He set theunheroic Pot Friend to the tasks of carrying water and wood, and snaring hares and grouse.
Rousseau was taxed by some of his plebeian enemies with a most unheroic deference to his patrician friends.
At the sound of footsteps he sat up, suddenly very much aware of his unheroic dishevelment.
A flick of the whip sent Yorick forward at a bound; and Garth--stifling unheroic qualms--could not choose but follow her daring lead.
He arrived in a very unheroic state of breathlessness, and she greeted him with a frankly forgiving smile.
The garrison of Falaise was not of the unheroic type that the English had met so far in this campaign, due probably to the fact that the French were commanded by such a leader as they had not hitherto found.
It is his novel manner of presentation, his transposition of themes hitherto treated epically, to the narrow, unheroic scale of middle-class family life that blinded critics to his true significance.
It is a very unheroic and even disagreeable epitaph.
This was refined misery, unheroic and humiliating, as suffering always is when unaccompanied by resignation.
The Sagas take an interest in misconduct, when there is nothing better to be had, and the heroic age is frequently represented by them rather according to the rules of modern unheroic story-telling than of Bossu on the Epic Poem.
We must show him compassion as a man, but as we show compassion to one mentally diseased, for he is the paradox of "a heroic genius with an unheroic will.
Amid unheroic environments they displayed the perennial heroism of the undaunted will; the triumph of the spirit which, when animated with faith, can prove victorious over time.
This unheroic episode is a relic of the comic traditions associated with Hercules, traditions which obtrude themselves from time to time in serious and even tragic surroundings.
And then he is crushed by his rival and driven in flight to die an unheroic death.
The inevitable villain of the tale is one of Mark's squires, the spy Meliadus, also a very unheroic character, who told the king of Tristan's love for Iseult.
Brangwaine, who knew all that had passed, tried to shield her mistress in every way, and blind the king, who is depicted as a very unheroic monarch, but little fitted to secure the affections of the proud young Iseult.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unheroic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
