Sentence examples for Venerable figure from inspiring English sources

Mr. Krim, a venerable figure in Hollywood, ran United Artists for many years.

Here I met with several professors, including Hugh Nibley, who is the most venerable figure in Mormon scholarship, although he is little known outside it.

Malik Saeed Hassan, a retired judge of the Lahore High Court, a venerable figure who began practicing law in the late 1950s, told me that the decision constituted "the first victory over military authority in 60 years".

The venerable figure that he is, I can just about picture him telling a group of despondent young residents that it would be naive to think that a terminally ill doctor might avoid the fate of many of his patients.

A venerable figure from the "Today" programme, the BBC's most serious morning radio show, is pulled aside and called a "bald, fat, Scottish git," as he begs for his life.

Though Jyn had never exhibited any spirit of revolt she'd had enough trouble surviving, even pseudonymously, merely keeping her head down she's thrown together with a venerable figure from her past, Saw Gerrera (Forest Whitaker), who huffs with a breathing mask seemingly borrowed from David Lynch's "Blue Velvet" and reminds her of long-standing affinities.

The ensemble has commissioned pieces from more than fifty composers, ranging from such venerable figures as Philip Glass and Steve Reich to young radicals on the fringes.

See articleFerdinand Piëch, the chairman of Volkswagen and one of corporate Germany's most venerable figures, gave evidence at the corruption trial of two former VW insiders.

There is an irony in the fact that at the Football Association and the Rugby Football Union, for example, their councils are made up of venerable figures from the grassroots of the game.

He hired Richard Meier as an adviser, and they selected venerable figures such as Graves, Cobb, Richard Rogers, and Philip Johnson, along with younger celebrity architects — Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Shigeru Ban, and Eric Owen Moss — to design houses.

Two venerable figures — the musician Ned Rothenberg and the performance artist Rinde Eckert — take the stage in "Five Beasts," a portrait of humanity as seen through the eyes of animals.