Sentence examples for desire for glory from inspiring English sources

The desire for glory, however, trumps reason: "She is a theme of honor and renown," Troilus says.

Apart from desire for glory, highly developed among jihadis and their ilk but less so among lone-wolf killers like the Newtown murderer, there is little similarity.

"The combination of a desire for glory and an inability to endure the monotony it entails puts many people in the asylum".

The desire for glory was one of the permanent traits in Bolívar's character, and there can be little doubt that it was stimulated by Napoleon.

Men were driven by desire for glory as well as by money; the one was not merely a fig leaf for the other.

Peary, for instance, had a simple desire for glory and riches; when he finally found that meteorite, which the local Inuits had dubbed Woman (another, nearby, they called Dog), he called it "the brown mass".

All the things that parents have nightmares about (adolescent risk-taking, alcohol, drugs and criminal activity) happen because we do not find channels for young men's desires for glory and heroic activity". My guess is that Balls will do his best to meet the energies of the young people he is already in conversation with.

Alexander was used by these writers as an example of ruler values such as amicita (friendship) and clementia (clemency), but also iracundia (anger) and cupiditas gloriae (over-desire for glory).

He was popular with the fans and media but was replaced in the desire for Asian glory and international recognition.

His decision to meet Kim in Singapore is almost entirely drawn from a desire for personal glory.

An unslaked desire for military glory propelled Benito Mussolini to power in 1922, making him in a sense another child of the Risorgimento.