Sentence examples for figure of our time from inspiring English sources

Has any major figure of our time been so variously caricatured as Boris Yeltsin?

The outstanding Spanish cultural figure of our time is the ebullient filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, who finds humanity in the most despised groups and optimism in the most hopeless situations.

"We've been having a lot of discussions about who could be the most controversial figure of our time," she said, adding that her employees first wondered if the subject was President Obama, then discarded that theory.

Labour leader Ed Miliband described Mr Benn as an "iconic figure of our time" and a "champion of the powerless".

She has refused to be humiliated by something designed to do just that, and consequently become a hate figure of our times.

Concerned to see a celebrated figure of our times reduced to reaching out in such a seemingly desperate fashion, I called to fulfil the thankless role of being this lonely man's dining companion.

In this, as in so many things, he's a figure of our times, emblematic of an era of confessional art - movies, memoirs, autobiographical novels - in which artists must, in order to keep going, distance themselves from, even disavow, the personal implications.

Are thwarted information sharers the emblematic tragic figures of our time?

On the contrary, we think of him as one of the most romantic figures of our time, a man of peculiar originality and even some grandeur.

An admirer hailed her as "a modern Joan of Arc... one of the great positive figures of our time".

I am always being reminded that the most serious public figures of our time, from Woodrow Wilson to W. B. Yeats, have been addicts of this form of fiction.