Although this was a defeat, the withdrawal under fire was played up as a heroic feat.

What extravagant titles and heroic feats will the propagandists dream up?

Denied their usual explosive gestures and heroic feats of endurance, they instead sculpt precise nano-improvisations, like shiny snail trails scarring a frosty tundra.

The inescapable fretting about the forecast adds an oddly querulous note to the heroic feats of aerobatics, as the elite pilots' summer season continues apace.

This was not the first time: it had been called to perform heroic feats.