Sentence examples for figures of history from inspiring English sources
Some are associated with early figures of history or romance; others e.g., the steel crown of Romania are comparatively modern.
"'Our Country's Black and White Past': Film and the Figures of History in Frank O'Hara," American Literature 71: 1 (March 1999): 57-92.
I am not entirely sure the prime minister would necessarily draw such comparisons of his cabinet members with figures of history.
The great figures of history, as Melville wrote, "are parts of the times; they themselves are the times, and possess a correspondent coloring".
In novels about the Dutch aristocrat Charlotte-Sophie Bentinck, Onverenigbaarheid van karakter (1978; "Incompatibility of Character") and De groten der aarde (1981; "Great Figures of History"), Haasse used a collage form, with authentic documents, to tell her story.
Others would later debunk Woodward's biographies of George Washington and Ulysses S Grant, which attempted to debunk great figures of history but were generally dismissed as exercises in cynicism and little else.
As the historian Jan Assmann puts it: "Moses is a figure of memory, not of history, whereas Akhenaten is a figure of history, but not of memory".
"Whereas Akhenaten is a figure of history, but not of memory". These interesting wrinkles won't ripple through Scott's film.
"General Scott was a figure of history at the academy, the first one, at least in modern time, to take over for five years," General McNair said.
