Sentence examples for Historical personalities from inspiring English sources

Or maybe it is the same public fascination with historical personalities that lately has filled best-seller lists with presidential biographies.

Later this year, Name of Russia will be broadcast, which will explore 12 historical personalities, and ask the audience to select the greatest Russian figure.

In Hazel's short life, she plunged herself into the worlds of great historical personalities and, through her craft, experienced several extraordinary lives.

Another parent described an assignment where children were directed to use a particular biographical research website, only to find that, of the 21 historical personalities listed, just two were women.

Several portraits pay tribute to historical personalities who connected artistic and literary worlds: the 19th-century French critics the Goncourt brothers, the Ballet Russes founder Serge Diaghilev and the American portrait painter Alice Neel.

Most of his films are based on networks of connect-the-dots symbols spun around central characters, often historical personalities, in whom Mr. Barney finds examples of people who, against various forms of resistance, have to an unusual degree controlled their fates.

Pelayo's historical personality is overshadowed by his legend.

The unappealing aspects of her historical personality receive a contemporary, reader-friendly makeover.

Legends about him, however, seem to have accrued to a historical personality who lived in the 7th century ce and was summoned to the imperial palace by two Tang dynasty emperors.

Penguin Lives/Viking Press; 208 pages; $19.95Among many recent books on Sir Winston Churchill, John Keegan's stands out as a model of concision and insightfulness about an immense historical personality who helped to shape the world we live in.___________________________________The Victorians.

It embodies an idealized historical personality -- in the opera, Cola Rienzi wrests authority from a corrupt Roman oligarchy -- whose patriotic mission inspired not only Wagner but also Hitler: the "Rienzi" Overture was the musical theme for Hitler's Nazi Party rallies.