Sentence examples for commemorate himself from inspiring English sources

*** In Immortal Egypt (BBC2) the engaging and highly enthusiastic Professor Joann Fletcher explored what she contends is the "world's greatest civilisation", beginning well before anyone thought to commemorate himself by throwing up a pyramid.

In Pop Life, Turk will be represented by Pop and by Cave, his famous blue heritage plaque commemorating himself.

Is it Gray's epitaph on himself (as the whole poem might be an elegy to himself) or does it commemorate, as sometimes supposed, the "stone-cutter poet?" Like the inscription on the tomb of the unknown soldier, it celebrates noble obscurity, but its resonant memorial would not, of course, exist without language and literacy.

Rohmer's biographers present him as a mentor who introduced Godard to Beethoven's string quartets (an event that Rohmer himself commemorated in "The Sign of Leo"), who introduced Rivette to Balzac, and who, in the process, helped them to develop the grand sense of their own future cinematic project.

Bamidele to his father, Olaniyi to his grandmother, Prince Twins Seven-Seven renamed himself in adulthood to commemorate newly found royal lineage and the circumstances of his birth, which colored his life and shaped his art.

Let Generation X commemorate the 15 years since Kurt Cobain shot himself.

The mayor, no fan of hip-hop himself, said he wanted to commemorate the many hip-hop artists who grew up here, and to reach out to the city's youth.

The duo hits up a mud bath, a Hāngī cookout, and a massive mussel harvest all before Matty gets himself a Māori tattoo to commemorate one hell of a trip.

Hollande was in central France to commemorate Pierre Bérégovoy, a former Socialist prime minister who shot himself in 1993.

In 2000, Maschler found himself mildly mortified when, at a dinner to commemorate his 40 years with Cape, Salman Rushdie, who had been asked to say a few words, chose to read extracts from the book.

The Chinese artist, who co-designed the Beijing "Bird's Nest" Olympic stadium, is best known for large-scale, powerfully provocative work such as an installation made up of thousands of children's backpacks to commemorate the victims of the Sichuan earthquake, and a photographic triptych of himself smashing a Han Dynasty vase.