Sentence examples for as gallant from inspiring English sources
For his part Prince William, representing, with the Duchess of Cambridge, the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh, said his country owed the people of Belgium "a great debt of gratitude for their fortitude and resistance [which was] as gallant as their suffering was great".
Prince William, representing the Queen, praised Belgium and its people "whose resistance was as gallant as their suffering was great" and spoke of the power of reconciliation.. "We were enemies more than once in the last century, and today we are friends and allies," he said.
The race was almost a duplicate of the Preakness, as Gallant Fox started slowly and was in fifth position while going past the grandstands.
When we're young and unpopular, we need a hero most valiant, as gallant as Rapunzel's prince, to rescue us from the horror of our daily life (and to deliver us to a semi-happy ending, even when it includes blindness).
Ben's battlefield heroism in the first half is echoed in the second by his exploits as founder and leader of a paramilitary group he calls the "Ku Klux Klan" — portrayed here as gallant knights out of a Walter Scott tale, called upon to combat the excesses of newly freed black slaves manipulated by power-hungry white politicians.
PAGE A7 U.S. Strikes Kill 21 in Pakistan A7 SHOE THROWER IN THE LIMELIGHT Although, Muntader al-Zaid, the journalist turned shoe thrower has been sentenced to three years in jail, the verdict has solidified his legacy as a rebellious Robin Hood character, seen as gallant and desirable, especially among young women.
Even while Breton praised the omnisexual, vicious Sade as a prophet of Surrealist freedom, he wrote love poems as tenderly gallant as Provençal minstrelsy.
Upon its completion Richard reportedly declared in triumph that his new castle was gaillard, a term that has been defined in numerous ways, most often as "saucy" but also as "cheeky," "gallant," "impudent," "strapping," and "defiant".
The president drew a prolonged ovation as he praised Cardinal O'Connor as "the gallant defender of children and their vulnerability, innocence and their right to be born".
Other sex worker activists, such as Chanelle Gallant writing at MTV, see the case as part of larger pattern of disbelieving sex workers when they come forward with accusations of sexual assaults.
"Christian Lacroix and the Tale of Sleeping Beauty" (It Books, $21.99), the first in her series of fantasy designer biographies, tells the story of Beauty, a starry-eyed princess condemned to wearing bland sack dresses, and stars Mr. Lacroix as the gallant prince who creates for her the dress she has always deserved, as well as the court's entire new ensemble.
