Sentence examples for entirely glorious from inspiring English sources

But it is very different from some of the schools I went to in a varied and not entirely glorious academic career.

Mr Gnassingbé, on the other hand, ran an expensive campaign in which he promised "change in stability", an admission that his father's long reign had not been entirely glorious.

And at the end here as the players danced on the pitch, children coming out again to take penalties in front of the Welsh fans, the whole occasion had the feeling of a vast, entirely glorious family wedding.

Indeed, there is a long if not entirely glorious history of caffeine and alcohol joining forces, of whiskey or liqueurs poured into after-dinner coffee by adults looking for the same sort of effect that Four Loko fans seek: an extension of the night without a surrender of the buzz.

Like other nations, this one doesn't have an entirely glorious history, founded as it is on that hardware pointed at Native Americans, then slaves, then striking workers, civil rights activists, immigrants and global justice protesters.

But the efficient, waistcoated staff brings to mind an entirely different time: the glorious First Republic, when Prague boasted one of the highest standards of living on the Continent.

And the paean to children's literature  —  which is often the glorious and entirely seductive introduction to Britain for many people around the world  —  was a beautiful way to extend the embrace beyond the shores of this island.

The story is told – or part of it – in this intensely enjoyable, entirely insubstantial movie featuring glorious performances from Kenneth Branagh and Michelle Williams as Olivier and Monroe, participants in a love triangle of two stars and a nobody.

It was a wild experiment that didn't entirely pay off, despite some glorious moments.

By 1947 there were less than 4,000,000, not because of any philanthropic effort by their more prosperous fellow-citizens but entirely because of those first glorious years of a war economy.

But if there has been a Welsh party line about today's match in Cardiff, it has been that France have picked a particularly big pack of plug-uglies, with which they intend to smash and crash about in a manner entirely unbecoming to such a glorious occasion.