Sentence examples for foremost man from inspiring English sources

Why was Caesar what Brutus calls him, "the foremost man of all this world"?

Not for Wole Soyinka, Nigeria's foremost man of letters, a gentle retirement or attempt to separate art from politics.

Qian Zhongshu (1910-1998), hasled as twentieth-century China's "foremost man of letters," is best known for his novel, Fortress Besieged, and his groundbreaking study of the Chinese literary canon, Limited Views: Essays on Ideas and Letters.

Already holding the high court rank of patrikios, through this appointment Staurakios became, in the words of the chronicler Theophanes the Confessor, "the foremost man of his day and in charge of everything" for most of Irene's subsequent reign.

Among his sitters were the foremost men of his time: Emperor William I, Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt, Hermann von Helmholtz, and William Gladstone.

Edward Rondthaler was one of the 20th century's foremost men of letters — actual, physical, audible letters.

Yet the monks, all 21 of them, insist they are first and foremost men of God, not beer salesmen.

I thought it an occasion to publish a lengthy consideration of Gore's overall achievement as one of America's foremost men of letters.

Rosalind Baker Wilson, an editor and writer who published a memoir of her father, Edmund Wilson, one of America's foremost men of letters, died on Oct. 30 in Syracuse.

"In Europe I felt as though I were despised," Freud wrote, but, in the United States, "I found myself received by the foremost men as an equal" — if not, apparently, by James.

A prolific writer herself, Catherine corresponded regularly with the foremost men of her age, including Voltaire, Diderot, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, Baron Friedrich Melchior de Grimm and others, not to speak of fellow potentates such as Frederick II, Maria Theresa, and Joseph II.