Sentence examples for extraordinary distinction from inspiring English sources

In his remarks, De Blasio thanked Kelly for having served the city with "extraordinary distinction and integrity".

C Vann Woodward, a historian of extraordinary distinction, told me many times that Emerson could not be forgiven for the essay "History", which never ceases to give me joy with its opening sentence: "There is no history, only biography".

Despite Crick's extraordinary distinction as a scientist, little has been written about his life aside from his brief autobiographical essay, "What Mad Pursuit," and his leading role in "The Eighth Day of Creation," Horace Freeland Judson's outstanding oral history of molecular biology.

Lazio's reputation as both a moderate and a legislative craftsman rest on a massive public-housing reform bill that passed in 1998, and that achieved the extraordinary distinction of being embraced equally by the White House and the Republican House leadership.

Lansbury, Martin and Tosi are being honored for "extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement, exceptional contributions to the state of motion picture arts and sciences, or for outstanding service to the academy".

Edith Sitwell, who dedicated her book "The Queens and the Hive" to Cukor, said in her memoirs that the house was "quite unlike any other house I know, and reflects in every way its owner's extraordinary subtlety and distinction of mind".

"They have carried out their jobs with extraordinary patriotism and distinction".

For all the extraordinary and apparently effortless distinction of her life, she gives off an astringent sense that failure is always possible.

She served the Garden Club with great distinction, inspiration and extraordinary ability as its 35th president (2003-2005) and in many other capacities that began with her membership in the Fox Hill Garden Club in Massachusetts.

Working from Catholic medical ethics, ordinary versus extraordinary treatment is a moral distinction, not a medical one [ 13].

(I owe the making of this distinction to Paul Fussell's extraordinary book The Great War and Modern Memory, which treats Brideshead with due seriousness).