Sentence examples for enduring stature from inspiring English sources

It certainly suggests, however, that he was, above all, genuinely concerned to present to the world the best work that he could find by a poet of great and enduring stature.

But the events also served as a tribute to the enduring stature and popularity of Mr. Putin, whom Mr. Medvedev nominated as prime minister within hours of taking office.

The enduring stature of the redwoods is a monument to effective slow growth.

His enduring stature is partly a result of his having chosen prison.

He was trying to carve a statue of classical stature and enduring majesty from soft, crumbly sandstone, and the results occasionally verge on the ludicrous.

The popular success of Mr. Kline's "Cyrano" stands as a heartening reminder that the sometimes denigrated power of a star name can be put to healthy use, allowing a play to retain its hard-earned stature as an enduring popular classic, to shake off the dust and live to fight another day.

Yet with passably funny Comedy Central take-offs undermining its stature as an important, enduring motion picture, and newer, glitzier fare squeezing out this special stand-by, is the new generation missing out?

Does anyone in this room know who the current U.S. poet laureate is? [Five hands rise, and a few call out the name Kay Ryan.] I'm sure she's a very nice woman, but even this position of stature is no more enduring.

Miller was a figure of great moral and intellectual stature, who was unafraid of taking a stand on political issues and enduring obloquy for doing so.

But, he added, better educated executives and filmmakers would waste less money, and support for the new center would ultimately boost the stature of film at other universities, notwithstanding what he described as an enduring bias against cinema as being "not qualified to sit in the pantheon" of great arts.

A more balanced estimate of Tennyson has begun to prevail, however, with the recognition of the enduring greatness of "Ulysses," the unique poignancy of Tennyson's best lyric poems, and, above all, the stature of In Memoriam as the great representative poem of the Victorian Age.