Sentence examples for as most fitting from inspiring English sources

It will select a name that takes its fancy, probably one that in some historical or geographical way can be justified as "most fitting".

If the Inferno is a canticle of enforced and involuntary alienation, in which Dante learns how harmful were his former allegiances, in the Purgatorio he comes to accept as most fitting the essential Christian image of life as a pilgrimage.

The very idea of the school of public affairs was conceived by his supporters at Princeton as the most fitting tribute to Wilson; renaming it would be a criticism of their judgment as well.

Recognized by the early Church as the most fitting introduction to the New Testament, its special concern is to announce Jesus as the fulfillment of the Old Testament.

Netflix will make new, 12-part series of Black Mirror, with Brooker describing the US subscription video-on-demand service as "the most fitting platform imaginable".

Dickens's subtitle tells us that his book is "A Ghost Story of Christmas", and it was a formative text in the establishment of Christmas as the most fitting time for a spooky tale.

"As the most fitting tribute to their courageous service and sacrifice, let us recommit ourselves to the defining dream that dominated their lives: a bold vision for America in space".

Essays such as Paul Elmer More's long series of Shelburne Essays (published between 1904 and 1935), T.S. Eliot's After Strange Gods (1934) and Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948), and others that attempted to reinterpret and redefine culture, established the genre as the most fitting to express the genteel tradition at odds with the democracy of the new world.

(One wonders, in any case, how forever after these fountains can be; the plumbing demands must be ferocious, and it is hard to imagine, a half century hence, that this will still be seen as the most fitting and functional solution. Peter Walker has been quoted saying that "they're mechanical, and usually mechanical things only last thirty to forty years").

Philip K. Dick's novels — the works that he considered important and publishable — endure as the most fitting tribute to his intellect, his imagination and his willingness to acknowledge that when all is said and done, human existence may be nothing more than a cosmic comedy.

The saga relates that king Haakon I of Norway died in battle, and yet though he is Christian, he requests that since he has died "among heathens, then give me such burial place as seems most fitting to you".