Sentence examples for admired figures from inspiring English sources

Brian Pearson is twenty-four, and one of the most admired figures at Friends.

From the 60s onward she was repeatedly named in polls of the world's most admired figures.

On the council he was among the most admired figures in local politics -- calm, steady, forthright and astute.

Fewer still took the kind of action that later made agents of the Underground Railroad such widely admired figures.

Those deaths that figured in recorded history were almost invariably violent murders, executions, suicides and yet the most admired figures met their ends with exemplary calm, their last words set down for posterity.

He helped design the influential "great books" curriculum at Columbia, where he was one of its most admired figures for half a century, serving as provost, dean of faculty and university professor.

He is also an admired figure".

Wright is an admired figure inside the Mets' organization and across baseball.

There she became a lively and admired figure among the avant garde and radical literary set.

Before the speech Colin Powell was the most unambiguously admired figure in public life.

She has recently caused a stir for downplaying another widely admired figure, Malala Yousafzai.