Sentence examples for for their legend from inspiring English sources

The Barrow gang had both family loyalty and sex appeal working for their legend.

They reserve the album's loveliest melody for its darkest song, the mostly acoustic Little Guy from the Suburbs, the lyrics of which take a break from puns and archness and appear to be a self-justifying suicide note from a spree-killing gunman: "There are no heroes in this life, just those who care more for their legend than their life".

He said Persian rugs were fabulous for their legends and fables woven into the carpets; the superb Orientals were made by Turkish when the Ottoman Empire was superb; and the Caucasians are excellent in terms of color and design.

It is likely that these natives had gained their knowledge of woolly mammoths from carcasses they encountered, and that this is the source for their legends of the animal.

Philly fans, spawned in caldrons of disappointment like the Orcs in "Lord of the Rings," are conditioned to settle for less from their legends.

There are, however, instances of saints or ascetics who are presented as a more than worldly model, so that a case can be made for the mythological function of their legends (e.g., al-Hallāj in Islam and St. Francis in Christianity).

Bonnie and Clyde established the images for their own legend in the photographs they posed for: the gunman and the gun moll.

It is easiest for people to realize their legend when they are young because "at that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.

It is significant, for instance, not that the pagan gods and their legends survived for a few years on Constantine's coinage but that they disappeared so quickly: the last of them, the relatively inoffensive "Unconquered Sun," was eliminated just over a decade after the defeat of Maxentius.

The ferocity with which the Wahhabis fight for their cause is legend.

Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull, Jack Johnson, and Muhammad Ali, for instance, have all broadcast their legends across the footlights; Didion, however, may be the first literary figure to put her recent and grievous personal losses onstage.