Sentence examples for a towering reputation from inspiring English sources
He also left a towering reputation at Los Alamos.
Berlin's Volksbühne, one of the most storied ensemble theatres in the German-speaking world, has built a towering reputation on the demolition of canonical works of literature.
Draxler became the Bundesliga's fourth youngest debutant in 2011, and has since built a towering reputation at club and international level, drawing scouts from across Europe, and sending his valuation soaring towards £40m.
Until last week Óscar Arias was a small man with a towering reputation: twice elected president of Costa Rica, he stood up to the US and won the Nobel peace prize in 1987.
So begins "The Serious Game," a 1912 novel by the Swedish author Hjalmar Soderberg that enjoys a towering reputation in his homeland and that has now been issued in a new translation by Eva Claeson.
Milkhalkov has a towering reputation on account of this film, not really damaged by the memory of a rather stodgy period drama The Barber of Siberia, which opened the festival in 1999.
Were Ferguson to retire anytime soon, Hiddink's towering reputation as a man most capable of commanding respect among top players makes him an obvious candidate.
His towering reputation as a leader of 20th-century American education was tarnished by his handling of the Free Speech Movement that swept the Berkeley campus in 1964.
Abraham Lincoln's towering reputation illustrated by a great big pile of books.
L'Engle's towering reputation rests on "A Wrinkle in Time," which won the Newbery Award in 1963, and on the complex, intellectually probing sequels that followed.
Nor is it surprising that, given his towering reputation, he was credited with having written a number of plays that he had nothing to do with, including those that were spuriously added to the third edition of the Folio in 1664: Locrine (1591 95), Sir John Oldcastle (1599 1600), Thomas Lord Cromwell (1599 1602), The London Prodigal (1603 05), The Puritan (1606), and A Yorkshire Tragedy (1605 08).
