Sentence examples for Important personage from inspiring English sources

Enriched by this princely alliance, ʿUmar had become an important personage when he reached Mecca about 1827.

His coworkers refer him to a Certain Important Personage who becomes outraged by Akaky Akakiyevich's temerity and refuses to help.

She got married when she was thirteen, and is now, after eight children, an important personage, the matriarch of a vast and prosperous island clan.

Maurizio Benini, in the pit, represented a third, dated school of thought about opera: It holds that the conductor is the most important personage involved.

The only important personage who seemed really offended was Kaiser Wilhelm, of Germany, who had a class interest in protecting Germanic royalty from Slavic terrorists.

It will focus specifically on the understudied but critically important personage of Sheikh Farid ad-Din Masud Ganj-e Shakkar (d. 1265 CE).

For more important personages, silver and gold were used.

Obviously a change of focus for one's activities requires input from other, more important personages.

His smoothly finished ceremonial portraits of important personages combined elements of the Rococo, Bolognese classicism, and emergent Neoclassicism.

In Africa, he says, "I travelled extensively, avoiding official routes, palaces, important personages, and high-level politics".

The work deliberately avoided dull accounts of "military havoc" in favour of knowledgeable comments on the important personages of the day, which remain especially useful.