1.   His injuries, and the pain he played through, only enhanced his heroic stature.

2.   His towering, muscular frame suggests both heroic stature and rustic discomfort.

3.   The costumes, by Rolf Langenfass, barely call attention to themselves but match the sets in their undatable antiquity and intimations of heroic stature.

4.   Whether they succeed or not, the subjects of the movie all gain heroic stature, just for wishing, for wanting and for trying.

5.   Besieged Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has attained a heroic stature on Arab TV screens totally opposed to Israeli descriptions of him as a terrorist gang leader at bay.

6.   Sampras, who is of Greek descent, took on heroic stature as he fought his emotions and Courier and won.