Sentence examples for beacons of the from inspiring English sources

Compared to other Deep South states, Texas has comparatively few plantations standing as historical beacons of the Civil War.

Last week, the development corporation completed its selection of four diverse arts groups -- a theater company, a dance troupe, a museum and a drawing center -- that will serve as the cultural beacons of the rebuilt World Trade Center.

He had dreamed of rivers travelling gently toward their estuaries, of the cries of seagulls, of the wind, and of the storms that blow past the masts of sailboats and the beacons of the buoys.

Take note of the glare from the unshielded exterior lighting of the Montauk Point lighthouse (not the light in the tower, which by comparison looks dim) in the night photograph accompanying your May 8 article "Beacons of the Past, and Present".

He also makes the valid point that though the women in the film are far from beacons of the feminist ideal, the men get an equally rough ride, exposed as lily-livered liars, repressed romantics and, in one case, a clingy, crazed fool.

Helen visits the Inishowen Lighthouse, one of the beacons of the peninsula.

For the greater part of his life he was a beacon of the struggle.

The International Business Machines Corporation, the beacon of the Big Board, closed down 3/4, at 146 1/2.

The clarity of Liotard's calm, exact, absolutely honest art is a beacon of the Enlightenment.

For almost 20 years, Lionhead Studios was a beacon of the UK games industry.

Mr. Roche transformed Hillsdale from a little-known college to a beacon of the conservative movement.