Sentence examples for favourite figure from inspiring English sources

These days, Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Front, is a favourite figure of ridicule.

He went on to give his favourite figure of derision, the Queen, another verbal flogging for wearing "electrocuted animals".

But the character stuck and he never failed to command in his characterisation of a favourite figure of Shakespeare's - Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night.

When Miley Cyrus told news media that Angelina Jolie is her "favourite figure from history", was it because she thinks that Jolie is Alexander the Great's mother, Colin Farrell the King of Macedonia and Brad Pitt Achilles?

From history, the patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi was as popular in Italian folk art as George Washington was in American; and the Prince of Wales was a favourite figure for pub signs in England.

December 1702 Stepney, England November 16, 1724 London, England Jack Sheppard, byname of John Sheppard (born December 1702, Stepney, Eng. died Nov. 16, 1724, London) 18th-century English thief who managed four spectacular escapes from London prisons and became a favourite figure in verse, popular plays, romances, and burlesques.

He increasingly deployed favourite figures from comic-books, such as Ginger Meggs, in his paintings.

So their only remaining option is to vote against the leadership's favourite figures".

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Jinn, especially through their association with magic, have always been favourite figures in North African, Egyptian, Syrian, Persian, and Turkish folklore and are the centre of an immense popular literature, appearing notably in The Thousand and One Nights.

And by identifying himself with Ms Toynbee, long a favourite hate figure for the right, he was being provocative.