Sentence examples for but illustrious from inspiring English sources

This small but illustrious show is another example of the Met's commendable practice of building exhibitions from its own collection with little or no call on outside sources.

This small but illustrious show of paintings, drawings and prints from the Metropolitan's own collection of Carracci works offers paintings like Ludovico's innovative "Lamentation" (1582), a shockingly realistic Pieta scene, and Annibale's "Coronation of the Virgin" (about 1596), which reflects the classicism of his Roman style.

If you see nothing else of Lisa's too-short but illustrious career, please see this film.

Neither ship was seriously damaged, but Illustrious had to reduce speed to shore up sprung bulkheads in the bow and conduct temporary repairs to the forward flight deck.

He later put together a hardcover cavalcade of its brief but illustrious history and I was able to purchase a copy.

Burges's career was short but illustrious; he won his first major commission for Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral in Cork in 1863, when he was 35, and he died, in 1881, at his Kensington home, The Tower House, aged only 53.

What many people want from genealogy is not just any ancestry but an illustrious one, or, at least, one that is compatible with their cultural DNA.

Expectations at the Hawthorns were massive but the illustrious old boy never met them and the Baggies were relegated from the top flight in 1973.

Scott Cooper's movie may just be a little too schmaltzy and dewy eyed for that, but Bridges' illustrious fellow castmembers also acquit themselves well in unshowy roles, and the songs … well the songs are almost worth the ticket price alone.

But the illustrious inhabitants of this sunny Andalusian city — from caliphs and conquistadors to flamenco dancers in their frilly skirts — seem to have conspired over the centuries to turn it into the kind of place where children easily can find an adventure.

But the illustrious appellation could someday live in infamy.