But soon it dawns on him that he has disregarded his "unheroic," but real, worlds.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Guy's Moleskine Notebook] Reference

The bourgeois is unpoetic, unerotic, unheroic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Roots of Liberal Condescension] Reference

Any unheroic act of theirs is sinful and inglorious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

It was after dark when we made our unheroic return to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moosburg Online: Stalag VII A (Oral history: McClelland)] Reference

"Like many heroes, he met an unheroic end," Kellen said quietly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Curse of the Shadowmage]

Was there not something heroic in his unheroic, inoffensive public life?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Dorchen: Tim Russert's Eyes Were Nothing Like The Sun] Reference

The voice behind her caused her to levitate with a shrill unheroic squeal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Warslayer]

It's a very realistic, unheroic death that actually makes me feel very sad.    From Wordnik.com.  [My old flame] Reference

Why teaching evolution is dangerous is the title of an unheroic blog entry.    From Wordnik.com.  [2008 August - Telic Thoughts] Reference

Reality TV makes heroic decidedly unheroic values, characters and behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Jim Taylor: Reality TV Is Not Reality] Reference

But it's not fun finding out how unsaintly and unheroic some of us have been.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloggers on the Bus, bloggers in the index] Reference

He seemed compromised and unheroic at a time when compromise was disreputable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fall of The Black Empires] Reference

The Spaniard joined in the merriment at this unheroic representation of Jo and Jim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power] Reference

Ha! Name and origin in one breath, both about as unheroic as it was possible to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Question Quest]

He loved Rose because she loved him, — which is confessed to be unheroic behaviour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waverley] Reference

Are unheroic hero becomes entangled with Bismarck and the drive for German unification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Flash by George MacDonald Fraser] Reference

"A year for unheroic, unambitious pop with little more to say than 'Play me on the radio.'".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference

But there were still crawling and totally unheroic hours of waiting before Dr. Patten returned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Babbit] Reference

Joe Abercrombie is a British film editor and author of the unheroic fantasy trilogy, The First Law.    From Wordnik.com.  [July 2008] Reference

Virgil and a scribe of verse, not unheroic prose, I might well have started this little account with.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference

The fall was unheroic - ice on a back door step caused me to tumble to the ground and break my leg, badly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference

Consequently the origins of the movement were (dialectically speaking) unheroic and slightly disreputable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbarossa]

All I'm saying is that institutionalizing rewards for heroism will most likely result in unheroic behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where are the Heroes?] Reference

One great reason that emotional women attract men is because they can make a hero out of such unheroic stuff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girls and Women] Reference

The guy has very unheroic qualities and is pretty much a lazy bum who doesn't feel like running his business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review of Frisky Dingo] Reference

We have so few these days and when we find one, we generally want to deny what is so unheroic about him or her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deborah Emin: A Hero to the Media May Not be a Good Choice for President] Reference

And, for all its starry-eyed idealism it requires no interference in unpleasant and unheroic matters like Sudan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hullabaloo] Reference

But Vineland reminds you that heroic and unheroic political eras, suchas they exist at all, are always intertwined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rereading: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon] Reference

However, I am no advocate for suicide under any circumstances; there is something undignified in it, unheroic, unGermanic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lavengro] Reference

Our unheroic hero travels from England through Borneo and Madagascar having his usual terrifying and hilarious adventures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman's Lady by George MacDonald Fraser] Reference

The Balkans mission was right or wrong depending on one's political bent, but in military terms it was mostly just unheroic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peace is Hell] Reference

It looks very simple today – Stalin the young Georgian, firm and direct – but to the party it was disgracefully unheroic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picasso: Peace and Freedom] Reference

His last conscious thought was pure anger that he had travelled fifty light-years, only to meet so trivial and unheroic an end.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Songs of Distant Earth]

The idea that liberalism is mediocre, unheroic, and without martial vigor is an old battle-cry of the anti-liberal European right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Revolution from Above] Reference

This unheroic but practical suggestion met with poor Giannoli's approbation, and he confessed to not having broken his fast all day.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference