"When you see the snapshot of someone at the moment of success -- winning an award, taking an oath of office -- you see the glory," Joy remarked.
"It's much more serious than that," the droll Bill Shankly, who managed Liverpool in the club's glory days, once remarked.
I remember my husband motioning to me at the time and remarking, "Glory Days".
"May 9 marks the peak of our glory," Mr. Putin said in remarks on Red Square during the traditional Victory Day parade, which was under way even as the explosion in Chechnya struck.
But Trump seems to glory in that past, whether in his remarks sympathizing with white supremacists in Charlottesville or in his interest, with regard to Guantánamo, in detention without due process.
He did not cover himself in glory, making some notable gaffes and anti-European remarks.
At a graduation ceremony for Revolutionary Guard cadets this month, Khamenei warned that candidates "should demonstrate in their campaign promises and remarks that the concern is 'national glory and independence of the Iranian nation.' The Iranian nation is a revolutionary nation.
"It's all downhill from here," he remarked dryly in his moment of early glory, as the offers poured in.
In the future, somebody remarks, parents will tell their children about the glory that was Michael, but children who missed, say, the Bulls' first three championships will have to learn about them elsewhere.
Following the president's remarks, an overture from Semiramide, "On the Field of Glory", was played.
