Sentence examples for a distinguished lifetime from inspiring English sources

During a distinguished lifetime of an almost priest-like devotion to English prose, he has been celebrated for three things: first, his extraordinary way with the English sentence; second, his inheritance of, and complex dialogue with, Joseph Conrad's vision; and third, an intense, admirable hoarding of himself, the rocket-fuel of his fiction.

Rivers has led a distinguished life.

At the Poetry Society the stakes are much lower, and nobody has suggested that Mr. Hollander should be stripped of the Frost Medal, which is given for "distinguished lifetime service to American poetry".

When Ivory was chosen in 1994 to be the 25th recipient of the coveted Director's Guild D.W. Griffith Award for distinguished lifetime achievement, he said of his longtime friend Merchant, "It all works because he is there and it wouldn't work otherwise".

Fiction Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward Nonfiction The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt Poetry Head Off & Split by Nikky Finney Young People's Literature Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai Frost Medal Awarded annually since 1930 by the Poetry Society of America for distinguished lifetime achievement in American poetry.

This convivial memoir by a distinguished publisher charts a lifetime of cooking and consumption, from childhood efforts to conceal from a grandmother the mediocrity of her culinary efforts to the contentment of making a blueberry pie for grandchildren.

Locke was a distinguished scholar and educator and during his lifetime an important philosopher of race and culture.

It's the place I'm visiting to see a group of startups pitch for the opportunity of a lifetime in front of a distinguished group of judges.

This is a man with a lifetime of public service, on a distinguished level, to put it mildly.

Long since retired after a distinguished career, Jennings has tried to sum up a lifetime of learning here, but it is not comfortable learning, and it is very far from what local school boards call "heritage".

Mr. Frank is a distinguished musician with the experience of three other musical lifetimes put together.