Sentence examples for genuine glory from inspiring English sources

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But Troy's interactions with Rose are what give "Fences" its moments of genuine glory.

Here was an NCAA program that had not seen genuine glory days since the late 1980s; that had not had back-to-back winning seasons since 1990; that had not won the Big 10 title since 1987; that had not reached the Rose Bowl since that same year; and which had not won a national championship since 1966.

It means that low-key, dismal, unwatched World Cups on the back of mundane club contests against the same blokes you played a fortnight ago, and three weeks before that, and for local reporters in northern editions, are no use any more for top sportsmen desperate for the incentive of genuine glory.

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Boodle's is for gregarious business Johnnies, Brooks' is for would-be grandees, White's is for genuine glories of the nobility and Pratt's is for friends of the Duke of Devonshire and a few hangers-on.

Today Viollet-le-Duc's additions to Notre Dame – which go way beyond the gargoyles; there's barely a detail of its fabric he didn't restore – are inseparable from its genuine medieval glory.

Against India, though, he starred by taking four wickets and scoring an unbeaten 66, guiding West Indies over the winning line with eight balls to spare and making them look like genuine contenders for glory.

Writing in The New York Times, Manohla Dargis called the film "a tale about genuine faith and manufactured glory that unwinds in the American Southwest, but more rightly takes place at the terminus of the American dream, where families are one bad break away from bankruptcy".

That at least seems true of the happily (for us) unhappy relations at the center of the bittersweet comedy of dysfunction "Little Miss Sunshine," a tale about genuine faith and manufactured glory that unwinds in the American Southwest, but more rightly takes place at the terminus of the American dream, where families are one bad break away from bankruptcy.

The efforts of Andronikos II and later his grandson Andronikos III marked Byzantium's last genuine attempts in restoring the glory of the Empire.

"War," he observes, "mocks our idealized conceptions of glory, whether they are genuine and worthy or something less.

That "Jerry Springer," directed here by Jason Moore, only occasionally loses traction during its two-and-a-half-hour length is because it hears genuine beauty in the hunger for glory of the attention-starved souls it portrays.

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