Sentence examples for glory of the work from inspiring English sources

Read Gibbon on the destruction of the Alexandria library by the Christians, or E. P. Thompson on the Luddites — not to mention Robert Conquest on the Gulag — and suddenly old murders matter again; the glory of the work of these historians is that the right of the dead to have their pain and suffering taken seriously is being honored.

Thus passes the glory of the world.

It was partly built on the idea of glorying in the work of rural, genuinely "folk" musicians who could be taken from their shotgun shacks and introduced to a mass audience.

'But sort of the problem and also the glory of the way I work,' she explains, 'is I make all this stuff in the studio, but I also work on these white elephants - like House or Untitled Monument - things that are incredibly ambitious, take an awful long time to do, involve a lot of controversy, an awful lot of people, and don't make any money particularly, but it's just because I need to make them.

But I was schooled in the glory of the music while working in record shops for a decade -- places where the jazz heads ran the turntables with lessons and dictates on classic Impulse, Blue Note, ESP-Disc, Riverside and Saturn titles.

After the unspeakably depressing mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut last Friday, Westboro drove its flag of awfulness even deeper into the cortex of basic civility, by announcing that they would be protesting the vigils for the victims of the Connecticut shootings in order "to sing praise to God for the glory of his work in executing his judgment".

Phelps-Roper, a relative of the group's founder, Fred Phelps, first announced the group's plan on Saturday "to sing praise to God for the glory of his work in executing his judgment" via her Twitter account.

The Westboro Baptist Church announced plans to picket Hochsprung's funeral on Wednesday in Woodbury, Conn., and "sing praise to God for the glory of his work in executing his judgment".

But they were created long before planes or satellites, leaving generations of scholars to ponder why they were made, particularly if the Nazca people couldn't enjoy the full glory of their work.

So, whatever you do, put down your lab notebook, turn off the Bunsen burner, and take a moment to bask in the glory of the rewards of hard work.

The Power and the Glory also featured the work of cinematographer James Wong Howe, who collaborated with Howard on several productions.