postheroic
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English
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[edit]postheroic (not comparable)
- After the decline of classical heroes.
- 2007 July 8, Roger Cohen, “Her Jewish State”, in New York Times[1]:
- They like to convey the spirit of the underdog — that of Israel’s heroic beginnings — as if discomfited by the adornments of an increasingly moneyed, Americanized and postheroic society.