Words similar to heroism

Example sentences for: heroism

How can you use “heroism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

This isn't about "bravery" or "heroism" but getting from Point A to Point B without being torn apart by bullets.
It half-works right up to the point where people start getting gassed, and then Benigni's moist-eyed heroism and tenacious faith in his own irresistibility start to seem like a monstrous ego trip--a clown's megalomania.
This imposes on them a heroic view of life, though continuous heroism has the odds stacked against them."
Confidential , 1997), is decorated for heroism in the Spanish-American War and then exiled to an isolated fort high in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California--a seemingly godforsaken place where, at least in winter, the only passers-by are starving wagon-trainers.
This exposé of American submarine espionage is "an evocative and important look at the cold war," says Timothy Naftali in the New York Times Book Review . Told with the color and pacing of a spy novel, the book is full of firsthand accounts from the men who served on the underwater spying missions, though critics complain that the writers--a former New York Times reporter and a current one--are insufficiently skeptical about inflated claims to heroism.