1.   We also have a public sector borrowing requirement of heroic proportions, and even in a recession we have a huge balance of payments problem.

2.   Back home in Morganton, N.C., Leon Johnson is a figure of heroic proportions.

3.   He is, rather, a hypocrite of heroic proportions.

4.   They have blended his political and personal sides -- adding fictional details -- to create a figure of heroic proportions.

5.   This determination assumed heroic proportion when the ballroom darkened for a montage of clips from his long career.

6.   Venetian society can be shown to be so frivolous and self-absorbed that Shylock, by comparison, is a figure of heroic proportions.