Sentence examples for canonized figure from inspiring English sources

He gloats loudly over the demise of Gibson, ingeniously linking the rant to Gibson's political persuasions as “a canonized figure in the political and cultural pantheon of American conservatism.”.

Six years ago he was not merely an A-list movie star with a penchant for drinking and boorish behavior but also a powerful and canonized figure in the political and cultural pantheon of American conservatism.

It should not be too difficult to figure out why a city of frightened and frustrated souls, so deeply scared by crime and violence, would, when confronted with the shooting death of someone allegedly committing a criminal act, be so eager to canonize a figure like Masters.

In telling the story of a figure canonized in the mediascape as an unsullied and shining hero, Eastwood looks past the media representation to seek the essence of heroism, shattering the shining heroic veneer and restoring its tragic nature through the looming terror of death.

Trump, of course, goes through the motions of canonizing those figures when it is called for.

And even when it comes to the figures who were canonized long ago, "Shake It Up" opts for a refreshing, if perhaps self-conscious, degree of surprise.

Eighth-century royal tomb murals and Dunhuang Buddhist paintings demonstrate the early appearance and widespread appeal of styles that these court artists helped later to canonize, with individual figures (especially women) of monumental, sculpturesque proportion arranged upon a blank background with classic simplicity and balance.

And you cannot hope to get a sense of which of these figures should now be canonized or should compete for desert-island reading.

The litany of the saints includes countless figures — from Joan of Arc to the newly canonized Mary MacKillop, an Australian nun involved in the reporting of child abuse by a priest — who suffered injustices from church authorities in their lifetimes.

Some of Newport's most esteemed leaders wrote publicly and privately that no national political figure — Republican or Democrat — without a connection to Newport Beach should be canonized with a statue on the grounds of city hall.

Canonized in 1297 as Saint Louis, King Louis IX of France (1214-1270) was the central figure of Christendom in the thirteenth century.