Sentence examples for a few distinguished from inspiring English sources

By the early 30's, she was essentially a character actress, appearing in a few distinguished plays and few, if any, distinguished movies.

This summer, however, a few distinguished visitors are being treated with decidedly old-fashioned formality.

(There were quite a few distinguished voices believing black and white was the proper métier for news).

Aside from a few distinguished Italian gentlemen and a young couple playing with their Labrador, the streets were nearly deserted on a recent weekend.

But, he explains, "in truth, we're largely dealing with a picture archive of an American city visualized by Jews, to which a few distinguished Gentiles have contributed".

For the first half-hour or so we parked ourselves beside a few distinguished elders, who wore traditional black fez-style caps, sitting on a sky-blue bench that wrapped around the trunk of an enormous banyan tree.

However, the biggest losers of the Copenhagen fiasco appear to be climate science and the scientific establishment who, with a very few distinguished exceptions, have promoted unmitigated climate alarm and hysteria.It confirms beyond doubt that most governments have lost trust in the advice given by climate alarmists and the IPCC.

Because it did not develop extensively until the late 19th century, Łódź has a modern industrial appearance and very few distinguished or attractive buildings.

One of the few distinguished mod ern apartment houses in the city, it shelters an interior garden and presents glorious round bay win dows to the street and Museum of Modern Art garden opposite.

Reynolds's state portraits of the king and queen were never considered a success, and he seldom painted for them; but the prince of Wales patronized him extensively, and there were few distinguished families or individuals who did not sit for him.

The few distinguished non-American invitees who have dared run the gantlet of assistant United States consuls, only to emerge from the ordeal without a visa, have told of their humiliating experiences, effectively discouraging anyone else in their homelands from even trying to make the effort to come.