Sentence examples for esteemed the from inspiring English sources

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality that guarantees all others.

Of all the literary arts, the Indians esteemed the play most highly, and it is in this form that most of the other arts were wedded together.

"Zenobia was esteemed the most lovely as well as the most heroic of her sex," Gibbon wrote in an awestruck account of her brief reign.

Prosecutors in Ankara are investigating whether Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan once referred to Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader, by the honorific "Sayin," or esteemed, the Anatolian News Agency reported.

In "Democracy in America," de Tocqueville observed that Americans esteemed the arts and sciences more for their practical applications than for their abstract value — hence the popularity of newspapers, religious treatises, and self-help books.

Musically inclined students at 16th-century Oxford "esteemed the violin to be an instrument belonging only to a common fidler and could not endure that it should come among them," as one Anthony Wood wrote in his autobiography at the time.

Steak earns its esteem the old-fashioned way.

Still, it's one thing to esteem the soft-hearted.

The proportions of the arches are graceless, and dogs alone esteem the clunky bases.

For its part, the Kremlin has said it highly esteems the British proposal.

Intrepid gourmets esteem the flesh of The Worm above all other delicacies.