Sentence examples for got honorary from inspiring English sources

Neither had the costume designer Piero Tosi, nor the actress Angela Lansbury, who also got honorary Oscars, though Angelina Jolie — who was given an award for humanitarian work — had been named best supporting actress in 2000 for her work in "Girl, Interrupted".

Among the actors and actresses who haven't made it are Greta Garbo, Chaplin again, Cary Grant, James Dean, Judy Garland, Barbara Stanwyck, Gloria Swanson, Rosalind Russell, Deborah Kerr, Irene Dunne, Richard Burton, Kirk Douglas and Montgomery Clift (some of these later got honorary awards).

A whole bunch of them didn't get honorary degrees.

MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG went to Washington Square Park yesterday, one of five people getting honorary doctorates from New York University.

For such fair-minded candor, Valentine should get honorary membership to the city's planning board.

"He has contributed a lot more to the university than most people who get honorary degrees," says Clarke.

We've known for a couple of weeks about the illustrious foursome chosen by the Academy to get honorary Oscars this year — the directors Jean-Luc Godard and Francis Ford Coppola, the actor Eli Wallach, and the historian and documentarian Kevin Brownlow.

We've known for a couple of weeks about the illustrious foursome chosen by the Academy to get honorary Oscars this year the directors Jean-Luc Godard and Francis Ford Coppola, the actor Eli Wallach, and the historian and documentarian Kevin Brownlow.

"A whole bunch of them didn't get honorary degrees," he said in an ad lib not in the released text, "but they changed the course of history and so can you".

MRS. CHILD grew famous enough to have her high-pitched voice and occasional kitchen mishaps spoofed on "Saturday Night Live"; to be called a national treasure; to get honorary degrees from Harvard and her alma mater, Smith College, and rows of other awards; to be called an icon.

He is as close to getting honorary British citizenship as anybody ever from Switzerland.