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- noun literature The quality of being an
antihero
Etymologies
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Examples
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The poets of the First World War were not so much antiwar as antiheroism.
Versed in the Horror of War Michael Caines 2011
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"The Red Sweet Wine of Youth: The Brave and Brief Lives of the War Poets" is a book about "the impact of that war on the sensibility of the artist"; it also sets out to show that Sassoon et al were not necessarily antiwar but antiheroism, as in the mocking title of one of Wilfred Owen's most famous poems, "Dulce et Decorum Est."
Versed in the Horror of War Michael Caines 2011
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Petronio's attempt at alchemy -- converting superheroism into antiheroism -- simply fails.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Petronio's attempt at alchemy -- converting superheroism into antiheroism -- simply fails.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Petronio's attempt at alchemy -- converting superheroism into antiheroism -- simply fails.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Petronio's attempt at alchemy -- converting superheroism into antiheroism -- simply fails.
Chicago Reader 2009
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Petronio's attempt at alchemy -- converting superheroism into antiheroism -- simply fails.
Chicago Reader 2009
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Petronio's attempt at alchemy -- converting superheroism into antiheroism -- simply fails.
Chicago Reader 2009
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Petronio's attempt at alchemy -- converting superheroism into antiheroism -- simply fails.
Chicago Reader 2009
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They were antiheroes before antiheroism was cool, and it’s that certitude of their old-school hipness that they cling to ever harder to deal with the welter of criticisms you cite above.
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