All 12 Uses
immortal
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- It gave them a kind of immortality—a faceless immortality.†
Chpt 1. *immortality = eternal life (to live forever)
- It gave them a kind of immortality—a faceless immortality.†
Chpt 1.
- He shoved the mementos of his immortality into a few cardboard boxes and hid these in a closet.†
Chpt 1.
- Within a few hours, Ira, Rene, and John—now "immortal heroes"—would hit the road with their sacred relic to inspire the populace.†
Chpt 16.
- Now, on one glorious afternoon, these solid-core Americans could flow together into one large red-white-and-blue celebratory mass—could stand in the sunshine with the heroes in the "immortal" frieze, and be as one with them.†
Chpt 16.
- Meanwhile, some four thousand miles to the west, a fallen "immortal" was reconciling himself once again to the military life.†
Chpt 16.
- And indeed the three generated so much copy that, combined with the movie's title and promotional art, the impression took hold that Sands of Iwo Jima would center on the flagraisers and their "immortal" action.†
Chpt 18.
- Now they had witnessed their "immortal" collective image transubstantiated to bronze.†
Chpt 18.
- The Photograph will forever inspire paeans to glory and valor among those who see the figures as immortals.†
Chpt 19.immortals = people who live forever OR people famous throughout history
- Rene Jr. described his father's life as an existence torn by the knowledge he had done something quite ordinary on the one hand and the public's perception of him as an immortal hero on the other.†
Chpt 19.
- The burden of being an "immortal hero" and the press attention he'd attract made it impossible.†
Chpt 20.
- Now, in 2006, the immortal image's continuing power moves Bantam Books and Clint Eastwood to enhance and retell the saga.†
Chpt Aft.
Definitions:
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(1)
(immortal) living or existing forever
or:
someone famous throughout history
or:
someone who will never die -- such as a mythological god -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, "The Immortals" denotes a military corps of the Persian Empire. The Immortals were so-named because each time a member of the 10,000 man corps was killed or seriously wounded, he was replaced by another man. They are best remembered in western culture for their role in defeating the badly out-numbered Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae.