The phrase "a sort of glory" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has a quality of glory but may not fully embody it, often in a metaphorical or nuanced sense.
Example: "The sunset cast a sort of glory over the mountains, making them appear almost ethereal."
Alternatives: "a kind of splendor" or "a type of magnificence."
"And it was really immigrants that lifted her up to a sort of a glory that was probably before America really fully embraced her".
With this responsibility came authority, power and a sort of obscure glory — all of which now belonged to the FCC.
In his country, he sees troubling signs of a new nationalism and fears that the restored Frauenkirche in Dresden could "become a national symbol, a sort of hall of glory, of the new Germany".
Traditionally, players would return towards the end of their careers, when the main European stage started viewing them as surplus to requirements and a final stint – usually at a club with which there was an emotional attachment – was a chance to bask in a certain sort of glory.
Which is why 'Knights of Glory' – a sort of 'Arabian Knights' inspired MMO where warring Sultans of old wage war against each other with their Medieval-era armies – has been gathering pace as the only fully Arabic browser-based MMO.
Environmentalists tout a sort-of pagan eschatology.
More than that, to the continued amazement of everyone but his friends, team-mates and family, Wilder is on the verge of creating the sort of glory reserved for film heroes.
It was all the more curious given Lewell-Buck hasatat on the local council since she was 23. "I think these dirty tactics are a disgrace," said Paul Nuttall, an MEP who serves as Ukip's deputy leader and is occasionally allowed to claim some sort of glory when Farage is otherwise engaged.
When Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Confessions" appeared, shocking the salons of eighteenth-century Paris with matter-of-fact descriptions of the author's masturbation and masochism, Edmund Burke lamented the "new sort of glory" the eminent philosophe was getting "from bringing hardily to light the obscure and vulgar vices, which we know may sometimes be blended with eminent talents".
