Sentence examples for a more distinguished from inspiring English sources

A kangaroo would make a more distinguished jurist.

Broadway could not ask for a more distinguished performer to kick off its new season.

Bandinelli's surviving works prove him to have been a more distinguished sculptor than his contemporaries allowed.

They also asked that the crosswalks be paved in contrasting brick, rather than painted asphalt, to create a more distinguished effect.

"It is hard to resist the impression," the Guardian reported, "that had Israel been a more distinguished footballing country, her team would have qualified without comment".

Its high-Modernist aspirations were just one of the ways this contemporary masterpiece seemed to issue from a more distinguished past.

In Trilling's novel, the naïve young man is an aspiring literary critic called Vincent; the chance he is handed is an appointment as the authorized biographer of a man who, after a worthy career as a writer and artist, has a much more distinguished career as a scientist.

On the whole, however, the more members who come to see the Senate as a platform — more distinguished, maybe, than a cable talk show, if less useful, on balance, than a Twitter account — the harder it will be for the Senate to get down to business.

Titus then took a new wife of a much more distinguished family, Marcia Furnilla.

Not only did that not happen, but the Kerry surprise has redirected the media klieg lights to a Vietnam veteran with an arguably more distinguished military record hailing from a state next door to New Hampshire.

Dawson's tops off an apartment house that's a little more distinguished than most buildings in the scrappy Ville Nouvelle, the architecturally neutral (and that's being kind) "New City," much of which went up after Morocco became a French and Spanish protectorate in 1912.