Sentence examples for Illustrious figure from inspiring English sources

There is no more illustrious figure in today's musical world than Pierre Boulez.

That monument was a tribute to its most famous son, the 10th-century blind poet al-Ma'arri, an illustrious figure in the long Arab tradition of mordant sceptics to which Adunis belongs.Pessimism about where the Arab world is going is understandable, especially in view of what is happening in Syria.

He gained some momentum and became an illustrious figure among the neighborhood, until an inexplicable checklist of poor choices sent him reeling against the eclectic legacy he'd created for himself.

Julio Larraz may not have started an actual salmon club like his mother suggested, but he did become and continues to be an essential and illustrious figure in the art world.

Among the illustrious figures sent out from Halle was Henry Melchior Mühlenberg, the organizer of colonial American Lutheranism.

Tragedy, it was considered, should deal with illustrious figures and significant events.

Isaac Bashevis Singer once lived there, among many other illustrious figures of the arts and letters.

There are Leibnizstrasse, Kantstrasse, Niebuhrstrasse, and Mommsenstrasse, all for illustrious figures in the great German tradition of moral inquiry.

She spent the French Revolution looking for the heads of the illustrious figures decapitated at the guillotine to make their death masks.

The Internal Medicine Service at Yale is named after Dr. Paul Beeson, one of the most illustrious figures in American medicine in the latter half of the 20th century, who was Chairman of Medicine at Yale from 1952 until 1965.

As well as a choice selection from among the kitchen glitterati, the London-based company represents such illustrious figures as Neil Armstrong, Sir David Frost and Nick Leeson (who may be less useful in a recession).