Sentence examples for favorite figure from inspiring English sources

Since I was a kid, I've been fascinated with theater history, and Bernhardt was a favorite figure for me.

Transumption or metaleptic reversal, I would say, which is Nietzsche's favorite figure, the entire basis of his Zarathustra's ­rhetoric".

The rainbow flag also had some connections with Judy Garland, a favorite figure of the gay community who sang "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" in "The Wizard of Oz".

Once you have that down, move on to fancier cracks, like Young's favorite figure eight, which involves swinging the whip in a big clockwise circle over your head and then jerking it in the opposite direction.

By the end of the 1960s, "Falling Man" had become Mr. Trova's trademark, provoking Hilton Kramer, the art critic of The New York Times, to write that Mr. Trova had subjected his favorite figure "to almost as many variations as the Kama Sutra describes for the act of love".

Last year, the F.B.I. hit the home of Ted Stevens, Alaska's six-term senator, and he became a favorite figure of ridicule on "The Daily Show": an angry little man, with an uncanny resemblance to Mr. Magoo, who had once made himself seem even older than his eighty-plus years by describing the Internet as "a series of tubes"; Jon Stewart called him a "coot," and portrayed him as a bully and a crook.

The shortest-priced favorite figures to be 2-year-old Officer, who is trained by Bob Baffert and was listed at 4-5 in the Juvenile.

"Now why are you standing there picking your nose?" says Coach C. Vivian Stringer, using one of her favorite figures of speech for a player's inattention.

Perhaps it's just millennial blues, but we seem to be having a bit more trouble than usual letting go of our century's favorite figures.

This year, Mock said she'll team with Lenny Letter to unveil a ten-episode podcast called Never Before; each installment will feature an hour of conversation with one of her favorite figures in entertainment.

Which brings me to this statesman, an esteemed Republican, a great progressive, and one of my favorite figures in American history.... Teddy Roosevelt was a man of great intellect and character, wit and wisdom.