Sentence examples for famed figures from inspiring English sources

Despite the well-worn conventions of the commencement address, there's something moving, even fun, about watching famed figures offer up advice and inspiration to graduating students each spring (Oprah sharing her journey from Southern poverty to media moguldom at Harvard was one highlight this year, as was Greil Marcus's eloquent defense of popular art forms at the School of Visual Arts).

The larger motivation is to ensure that the sterling silverware and serving sets that once made their way to European royalty and other famed figures around the world return to their original home to stay.

Indeed, books and essays proving a famed figure's homosexuality have become commonplace.

The Greenpeace activists entered a "strictly prohibited" area near the famed figure of a hummingbird, according to the Associated Press.

He and other artists covered the buildings' decaying walls with enormous murals of famed civil rights figures, from the Black Panthers to Malcolm X to Coretta Scott King.

The temple complex Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat houses the Phra Buddha Jinaraj, an early bronze figure famed for its beauty.

He attacked his opponent, Assemblyman Hakeem S. Jeffries, for "shaking up and waking up John Lewis in Georgia to make robo-calls," referring to the famed civil rights figure who recorded phone calls urging voters to support Mr. Jeffries.

The British ultraluxury brand, famed for six-figure Grand Touring cars, has given the Toyota iQ, a tiny city car in the vein of the Smart, an opulent makeover.

A week's digging there revealed the remains of the great palace of Sargon, with its famed winged figures, relief sculptures, and cuneiform inscriptions.

It ranges from the contemporary avant-garde to classical vintage pictures by famed Parisian figures Henri Cartier-Bresson Cartier-Bresson and Andre Kertesz-portrand by Brassai, at $20,000.

The Irish public are inundated with stories of a "gangland" full of famed underworld figures who are treated the same way Grazia treats Alexa Chung and Rita Ora.