Sentence examples for befits someone from inspiring English sources

As befits someone with a rapidly expanding empire, Yogi has a fully expanded mind.

His voice was loud and exact, as befits someone used to giving orders.

As befits someone who has climbed the ladder from slave ancestry, he likes to refer to himself as middle class.

As befits someone who has been alternately idolized and demonized by the press, Tyson is leery of the public's continuing interest in his saga.

As befits someone who specializes in the study of dictatorships, he seems to be bowed beneath the yoke of an invisible tyrant.

DeVita, as befits someone who spent a career at the helm of various medical bureaucracies, has written an institutional history of the war on cancer.

That is a kind of irresponsibility that more befits a Ross Perot than someone with Mr. Nader's record and professed concerns.

But as befits a duchess (and someone who has little interest in politics), she proudly proclaims that she has voted Conservative all her life and inveighs against change.

Those punishments are weird, as befits a magician's terrible power, but — and I write this as someone whose normally gentle mother would pinch me fiercely when I did something wrong — they too have something oddly domestic about them.

The character may seem a counterintuitive choice for someone who has linked his personal myth with American Indian imagery, but as befits a star who has built his career on playing outlaws and oddballs, Mr. Depp argues that his Tonto is a rebel, upending stereotypes, empowering Indians even.

These dreams have a cineramic quality that befits the unconscious of a Bombay superstar, even if their intellectual content seems pitched high for someone as gloriously, irrepressibly vulgar as Gibreel.