Sentence examples for glorious act from inspiring English sources

As befits a restaurant from Corbin and King, the team behind the Wolseley, it is a glorious act of homage.

Together with another Saudi prisoner, Mani Shaman Turki al-Habardi al-Utaybi, allegedly a member of a jihadist recruiting group, they began to consider a different way of drawing attention to the cause.That way was suicide forbidden under Islam, but reinterpreted, by bombers and others, as a glorious act of martyrdom.

In High Five: Love Never Fails, a forthcoming book about rebuilding a family during and after incarceration, author Ron Tijerina reflects on his two extra-martial affairs: "Unfaithfulness...is not the glorious act so many men think it is, or imagine that it will be.

The seder concludes with the joyous recital of hymns praising God's glorious acts in history and anticipating a messianic redemption to come.

They're a glorious double act.

Greenfield spends nine chapters on Ertegun's early life and Atlantic's glorious opening act: well-worn territory that he fleshes out and adds to.

Itamar and Sarit, a glorious double act who finish each other's sentences, met working in an Italian restaurant in Tel Aviv.

The design was exquisite, Susannah Fielding and Pippa Bennett-Warner were a glorious double act as the quarry who are really in control and Jonathan Goddard's movement direction continually underlined the play's joyous verve.

Well aware of Koons's bottomless needs and demands, Ileana Sonnabend and Antonio Homem, her gallery director and adopted son, nevertheless welcomed him back; in all likelihood they sensed (correctly, it turned out) that he was poised for a glorious second act — something that only he, among his generation of overpublicized artists, has so far managed to pull off.

But a combination of a spirited Derby response and a largely abject display from Bruce's side provided an enthralling 90 minutes, as the visitors pulled back two goals by half-time before ultimately falling short in a rescue mission dubbed 'Istanhull' by their supporters, a nod to Liverpool's glorious escape act in the 2005 Champions League final.

On the eve of the World Cup that he was to preside over as his final glorious public act, Mandela's great-granddaughter was killed in a car accident; the driver, a member of the extended Mandela family (although not related by blood), has been accused of being drunk.