Sentence examples for glorious idea from inspiring English sources

For Shanahan, this is not a glorious idea or a pretty sight.

The optimism of the early years — the glorious idea that South Africa would be an inspiration of enlightened leadership — has long faded.

The east was Egypt, a place at the very limit of the European imagination, scarcely a career, more like aholiday, a glorious idea, a splendid cultural fantasy.

A glorious idea, with a philosophical whiff of quantum theory to it – a "button" that only does its job when not pushed … Not that it seemed to bother the legions of wannabe train drivers, who lapped it up.

To make that hope real, says Patel, people who care about tolerance need to cultivate specific leadership skills today: "We need more people to show how our religious differences fit within the overarching framework of pluralism that is part of the American tradition — this magnificent and glorious idea that people will stand up and fight for".

Gershe recalled later that he was telling the playwright Clemence Dane about his friends the Avedons when she said, "What a glorious idea for a musical – the fashion world, a fashion photographer and a model who doesn't want to be a model".

Because all the fine talk of being an innovation nation profiting from a glorious ideas boom will come to naught if we can't get the basics right – all children, regardless of postcode, having access to an excellent education.

One of Baum's four sons described him as "a creative man with glorious ideas -- but a poor businessman -- enthusiastic -- imaginative -- but unreal and impractical -- I always said it was a good thing that Mother managed the family finances instead of Father".

Fabulous idea; glorious — though modest and practical — fact.

For all our many disputes, and our differences in how we understand and seek to fulfill the mandate, we live with the glorious and daunting idea that each step in life is consequential, that in every circumstance there are always sacred imperatives to be discerned.

Giles Richards (Wii, Nintendo) Fears that one of gaming's stars was running out of steam were banished in a glorious cascade of ideas.