Sentence examples for glory reputation from inspiring English sources

Even when the cost is crippling, as with Athens, the IOC's salesmen declared a "return in glory, reputation and future tourism".

He was particularly hard on emotions that would disrupt such a life, producing a number of diatribes (e.g., "On Glory") against the desire for glory, reputation, or honor.

Betaworks is determined to not only restore some of Digg's former glory and reputation, but also offer an alternative and replacement for Google Reader.

Neither would she have dismissed Trevor-Roper's musings about her public image, for this was an age in which, for all its parliamentary majorities, the right was supposed not only to have lost the intellectual high ground but positively to glory in the reputation for philistinism that this forfeiture entailed.

Benoît Magimel - from Haneke's The Piano Teacher - is the roi ; Tcheky Karyo is Molière, and Boris Terral plays the court musician Lully, looking like a constipated Marc Bolan, seethingly resentful of Molière's growing importance, the occasion for much sub-Amadeus fussing about reputation, glory and eternity.

A mathematician who sees an incorrect theorem in a paper they are reading will be racing to get their refutation out by 6 p.m. in order to collect the glory and the reputation metrics that will follow from that insight.

"There was always part of him that gloried in his reputation as a lady-killer, the sinful, depraved Don Juan.

Majid gloried in his reputation as the merciless hammer of the regime, once claiming that Saddam Hussein had counselled him to help the families of insurgents, but saying he had replied: "No, I will only bury them with bulldozers".

For all the glory surrounding the reputations of Bill Belichick and John Fox, this Super Bowl will probably be won by the team with the better offensive game plan, however limited its execution.

Of Saudi origin, he too glories in his reputation as a Muslim fundamentalist feared by governments in several Middle Eastern countries.The self-declared republic of Ichkeria, as Chechnya calls itself, is as militant as ever almost two years after Chechen guerrillas expelled the Russian army.

Whatever else comes with being a Lakers fan — frequent glory first, and a reputation for front-running, arrogance, and a distasteful, spotlight-seeking clownishness in some order thereafter — an underreported feature of our fandom is a profound knowledge of exasperation.