Sentence examples for dominating figure of from inspiring English sources
Mr Berisha, one of the dominating figure of Albanian politics, was also president from 1992 to 1997.The election campaign was judged by many to have been the best for many years.
"There Will Be Blood" (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007): When the movie came out, the principal complaints against it were that the dominating figure of the oil entrepreneur Daniel Plainview Daniell Day-Lewis) doesn't develop as a character; that the movie is structurally ungainly; that its political and social allegories are tendentious; and that the last scene is sheer insanity.
Gerbert remains the dominating figure of the late 10th century for modern scholars, who are concerned especially with more precise dating of his letters and a more detailed understanding of his political roles, his teaching (especially in logic, dialectic, mathematics, and astronomy), his transmission of Arabic learning, his relations with Otto III, his papacy, and his influence on later ages.
The dominating figure of Kafka's father had a significant influence on Kafka's writing.
According to author Louis Auchincloss, the pedestal "craggily evokes the power of an ancient Europe over which rises the dominating figure of the Statue of Liberty".
Riefenstahl grew up in a working-class family on the rise; her mother was a seamstress, her father was a plumber who built up a successful business and was the dominating figure of her early life.
The dominating figure in the kingdom of the Almohads, however, was the philosopher Averroës (Ibn Rushd, died 1198), court physician of the Amazigh (Berber) kings in Marrākush (Marrakech) and famous as the great Arab commentator on Aristotle.
His public career, lasting from then until his death, during which he remained a dominating figure in the world of opera, was summarized by his contemporary Hector Berlioz, who claimed that he 'has not only the luck to be talented, but the talent to be lucky.' He was at his peak with his operas Les Huguenots (1836) and Le prophète (1849); his last opera (L'Africaine) was performed posthumously.
Even Puskás, a dominating figure himself, the captain and star of the dazzling Hungary team of the early 1950s, had to compromise and found his modus vivendi with Di Stéfano when, level on goals with him in the last league match of a Spanish season, he passed to let Di Stéfano score, rather than score himself.
A dominating figure, she swore to her own sons and daughters that "no child of mine will ever rule me".
The later school of Herāt was dominated by the figure of Behzād, patronized by the ruler Ḥusayn Bayqarah (reigned 1469 1506).
