Sentence examples for a luminary from inspiring English sources

"Having a luminary give us encouragement spurred us into action".

He has quietly become a luminary of the folky circuit.

Lincoln was introduced by no less a luminary than William Cullen Bryant.

Indeed, no less a luminary than Ingmar Bergman called Tarkovsky "the greatest".

(One seat was taken by no less a luminary than Stephen Sondheim).

Mr. Andreessen, a luminary in technology circles, does not seem to care.

The German philosopher Jürgen Habermas is a luminary who occupies such a place in my anti-pantheon.

Honoring that tradition, many teams lined up a luminary to get their season started last week, with mixed results.

In a book published in 1983, Norman Augustine, a luminary of the aerospace industry, drafted a series of lighthearted "laws".

Yet Mr. Dalaras was a modest, amiable figure next to Marinella, a luminary in the Greek pop called laika.

CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH BYGONES At a luminary-filled party given last week by The Atlantic and Microsoft, guests dined at the Plaza Hotel in Midtown Manhattan and dissected a broadcast of the State of the Union address by President Bush.