Sentence examples for distinguished books from inspiring English sources

After 31 distinguished books, the man deserves to relax.

At the same time, he was designing distinguished books for the William E. Rudge printing plant in Mount Vernon, N.Y.

FSG, as it's generally called, has brought us more than half a century of distinguished books, rarely slipping below the level of distinction it hoped to achieve.

In "The Landscape of History," Mr. Gaddis, the author of several distinguished books on the cold war, both pays homage to Bloch (and with more conditional admiration, to the British historian E. H. Carr) and addresses the challenge of postmodernism.

Wayne Flynt, a retired Auburn University historian and author of several distinguished books about Alabama and the South, including "Poor but Proud," says that for most of his life it would have been impossible for a white Alabama electorate to think of a black candidate in anything other than abstract terms — as a black.

In his case this meant a series of distinguished books and the top editor's slot at The New Yorker.

Otherwise it isn't a distinguished book.

A loving portrait, by a distinguished book editor, of her father, the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (author of the famous prayer), and the friends and family, mainly social and religious progressives, who once spent their summers in an idyllic nowhere village in northwestern Massachusetts, a place whose sweetness Sifton renders palpable.

It is not, however, a distinguished book.

"These books are just stupendously enlarged newspaper stories," said Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of The New Republic, who argued that all of the books lacked the thoughtfulness, interpretative insight or literary quality that should distinguish books from newspapers or magazines.

That book won Dr. Weigley a Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History in 1992.