Sentence examples for false glory from inspiring English sources

But in trying also to incorporate commentary about false glory in war, the battle of the sexes and the fickleness of the gods, the piece gets jumbled.

Caesar has seen through the false glory of his own achievement and has no more taste for violence or pomp or the animal satisfaction of vengeance.

They are utterly hypocritical.... Buddhist leaders know perfectly well there is no religious discrimination here... If you start to give status to suicide you only encourage people to seek false glory...."....

It cheats the victims of crime, it lets offenders off the hook and it cloaks law enforcement in a false glory, but it is only route by which forces have been able to satisfy the politicians.

Off to Torcello for lunch, jolting across the wide lagoon, the wind blowing the dark-green water to whiteness, past San Michele with its brick walls, the island on which Stravinsky and Diaghilev lay buried — the real and the false glory, one moving past the other, though there are times when one cannot tell which is which.

Off to Torcello for lunch, jolting across the wide lagoon, the wind blowing the dark-green water to whiteness, past San Michele with its brick walls, the island on which Stravinsky and Diaghilev lay buried the real and the false glory, one moving past the other, though there are times when one cannot tell which is which.

Jackson, whose sense of irony deflates most of the false glories of modern football, can't help boasting a bit about his escapades as a large and well-monied man cast in the glow of his spot on an N.F.L. roster.

"It promotes sinfulness, it encourages pride, it causes us to demean others, to lose sight of higher things in a false struggle for glory," Dr. Gregory said.

Redemption, suffice it to say, rewards those who, having squandered glory to false idols, face squarely the past.

I counted them, and there were exactly ten kinds — cat brier, trumpet creeper, wild hop, blackberry, morning glory, climbing false buckwheat, partridgeberry, fox grape, poison ivy, and one that I couldn't identify, nor could Mr. Hunter.

"[I]f true, you are trying to steal their glory; if false, you are damaging scientific credibility," tweeted Michael Merrifield, an astronomer at the University of Nottingham, in the United Kingdom.