Sentence examples for excellent men from inspiring English sources
"We have excellent men on this team," Van Gundy said of this current group of Knicks.
My closest friend at school married one of what biologist Peter Medawar called "Hitler's gifts" – the tide of skilled and excellent men and women, often Jewish and German or Austrian, who longed to escape from Nazism, who needed to find almost anywhere a place where they could worship in peace.
As late as the eighteenth century, the repercussions could be felt when the agelast (non-laugher) Lord Chesterfield could advise his son: In 1876, George Vasey echoed Chesterfield by writing in his book "The Philosophy of Laughter and Smiling" that "many excellent men and women never laugh under any possible circumstances".
Excellent men should leave us even their conjectures; they are wrong if they wish to give us only those truths that are certain" (Leibniz to Huygens, Dec. 29, 1691, in Huygens 1888, 10 228).
The answer to this is, of course, that mathematicians can have even more fun by letting the machine do the more tedious and menial tasks: "It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation which could safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were used" (G. W. Leibniz, New Essays Concerning Human Understanding).
"They are just excellent men.
"Paul Kagame is an excellent man," he says proudly.
He turned out to be an excellent man-of-all-work equal to every emergency.
He can lose his temper, sometimes spectacularly, but is an excellent man manager.
"Bressie is an excellent man, a really solid bloke and a guy that is really calm under pressure".
