Sentence examples for distinguished lines of from inspiring English sources

Weill descended on both sides of his family from distinguished lines of German rabbis and cantors, and although he broke with Judaism in his student days, married a non-Jew, Lotte Lenya, and was even buried in a nonreligious ceremony, he never disowned his Jewish identity.

McLaughlin joins a distinguished line of British pier architects.

She joins a distinguished line of past winners including Ted Hughes, Jacqueline Wilson, Anne Fine and Philip Pullman.

Dvořák continued a distinguished line of Bohemian symphonists stretching back to Johann Stamitz.

(The ESKOM Building was torn down in 1983, joining a distinguished line of vanished landmarks).

This month, a 1947 novel, "Act of Passion," is being reissued by New York Review Books, which has a long and distinguished line of Simenons.

But he also saw himself as belonging to a distinguished line of outlaws, including Lenny Bruce and Henry Miller, whom Goldstein proudly interviewed in Screw.

"The New Electric Ballroom" affirms Mr. Walsh's growing reputation as a contender to take his place in the long, distinguished line of great Irish playwrights.

The relationship was consummated by the influential pedagogue Nadia Boulanger and her distinguished line of American students, chief among them Aaron Copland.

If Matilda -- the latest in a distinguished line of Algonquin lobby cats dating back to the 1930's -- would have preferred something rattier, she did not say.

The Military Wife But amid the media storm, many friends and admirers of the family thought of Holly Petraeus, his wife of 38 years, herself descended from a distinguished line of military officers.