Mr. Corsaro tries heroically to involve the audience in this static tale by stationing performers around the auditorium or moving them through it.

Is the governess heroically trying to persuade Mrs. Grose of the danger that surrounds them, or is she trying to spread her own hysterical fantasies?

You were heroically trying to protect the lady from would-be assassins.

Her subjects ranged from a boy heroically trying to drive the Romans from Israel to another boy's efforts to survive alone in the wilderness of colonial Maine.

Away from the house, where Daphne is heroically trying to cook something fishy from Rick Stein's cookbook, he often pees in the open.

From then on, priests guided her career and spiritual life, and she tried heroically to become a saint.

Bran tried heroically to save his father from falling to his death, but failed; a guilt that has haunted him ever since.

"In this case, so many people tried heroically to save the child that they may have put air in the child," he said.

In his memo to the Vietcong colonel Mr. Thompson tries heroically to communicate just what kind of writer he is, why he's different from other journalists.

Even so, the Army is letting the award stand because, officials say, Corporal Tillman died heroically trying to help the unit that shot him.