Sentence examples for get honorary from inspiring English sources

For such fair-minded candor, Valentine should get honorary membership to the city's planning board.

"He has contributed a lot more to the university than most people who get honorary degrees," says Clarke.

"A whole bunch of them didn't get honorary degrees," he said in an ad lib not in the released text, "but they changed the course of history and so can you".

We've known for a couple of weeks about the illustrious foursome chosen by the Academy to get honorary Oscars this year — the directors Jean-Luc Godard and Francis Ford Coppola, the actor Eli Wallach, and the historian and documentarian Kevin Brownlow.

MRS. CHILD grew famous enough to have her high-pitched voice and occasional kitchen mishaps spoofed on "Saturday Night Live"; to be called a national treasure; to get honorary degrees from Harvard and her alma mater, Smith College, and rows of other awards; to be called an icon.

Survivors of heart disease and stroke get honorary red caps; child survivors get Heart Hero capes.

MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG went to Washington Square Park yesterday, one of five people getting honorary doctorates from New York University.

Among the actors and actresses who haven't made it are Greta Garbo, Chaplin again, Cary Grant, James Dean, Judy Garland, Barbara Stanwyck, Gloria Swanson, Rosalind Russell, Deborah Kerr, Irene Dunne, Richard Burton, Kirk Douglas and Montgomery Clift (some of these later got honorary awards).

Neither had the costume designer Piero Tosi, nor the actress Angela Lansbury, who also got honorary Oscars, though Angelina Jolie — who was given an award for humanitarian work — had been named best supporting actress in 2000 for her work in "Girl, Interrupted".

He is as close to getting honorary British citizenship as anybody ever from Switzerland.

There is a fierce controversy racking Hollywood over the announcement this week that Oprah Winfrey had been selected by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences to receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, along with veteran actor James Earl Jones and Makeup pioneer Dick Smith getting Honorary Awards, at a special Governor's Awards ceremony on November 12th.