There is no question that she likes to sing big: "The Year's at the Spring," by Beach, allows Ms. Voigt to conclude the album in her familiar heroic mode.

Mr. Corgan still writes rock songs in the heroic mode, with broad-shouldered riffs and expansive guitar solos made slightly vulnerable by his nerdy, nasal voice.

Having just walked through "Mission: Impossible" in colorlessly heroic mode, Mr. Cruise does some of his best real acting here.

This stiffness is also not helped by the artificially heroic mode in which the narrative is cast.

Tenacious, his work fired by a kind of passion that was close to anger, he viewed himself less as a typical scientist than as an explorer in the heroic, pre-19th-century mode.

It seems he shot himself in the chest (not in the temple, the traditional heroic mode of suicide that Hedda had envisioned when she handed him the pistol).

"Walesa has moved from the heroic mode to the court jester," says Rapacynski.

Mustardseed, interestingly, is not a confected creature, but a miniature man in the heroic mode of William Blake.

Mount Vernon attempts to re-establish the heroic mode.

Fieldrunners 2 also offers 3 levels of difficulty for players, which are casual, tough, and heroic modes.