Sentence examples for a posterity from inspiring English sources

This, rather than the ambition of entertaining a posterity of urbane gentlemen, was her motive force in writing….

Men thought about going to their deaths bravely, as if it mattered to posterity, as if there would be a posterity.

He kept writing anyway, producing songs of love, howls of protest and hundreds of other poems — some 700 in all — each one composed, edited, revised and stored entirely in his head for a posterity he was not sure would come.

We stand in the middle of a ballroom at London's Dorchester Hotel, watched by his entourage and a photographer and video crew there to record this moment for a posterity which won't thank us for the effort.

Wolpe, a composer of unquestioned character and ability who died in 1972, has not been well treated by a posterity that in the old 18th-century way still insists on liking the music it admires.

Lord Byron's reputation tended to suffer a little in these recollections; but there's no doubt that Shelley's was enhanced by the association, and his posthumous success is a reminder of the great gift a literary friendship can bestow upon its less famous partner: a posterity.

'Tis not the concern of a day, a year, or an age; posterity are virtually involved in the contest, and will be more or less affected, even to the end of time, by the proceedings now".

"To judge a painter, you have to wait at least two centuries".For a while, posterity's judgment was kind.

How many do not write in hopes of attracting the admiration of a distant posterity?

I'm probably not alone in thinking he deserves a better posterity.

The ones that can't wait want to secure a premature posterity for the here and now.