Sentence examples for has the stuff of from inspiring English sources

It has the stuff of opera: warm-hearted tunes, big ensembles, meaty roles, characters with whom one can identify.

Not since the Great Depression has the stuff of feed bags been recycled with such imagination... but let's not go there.

He may not be ready to win the Open, but his tie for 13th two years ago at Turnberry at age 16 was an indication he has the stuff of champions.

But as a seventysomething singer who worked with Count Basie for two years in the 1960's and who has had numerous (mostly minor, often comedic) movie and television roles, he has the stuff of which legends are made.

Think of Momma Rose in "Gypsy" or even the title character of "Hello, Dolly!" And Ms. Testa, a performer of radioactive presence and lungs of steel who appeared on Broadway in "On the Town" and "Xanadu," has the stuff of which musical bulldozers are made.

If that holds, we will find out whether Clegg — whose party, under the current system, will be awarded proportionately far fewer seats than either of the others — has the stuff of the revolutionary parliamentarian Oliver Cromwell in him (minus the disagreeable beheading of the monarch).

Both their stories had the stuff of drama, however.

The Irish faithful decided immediately that he did not have the stuff of Rockne, Leahy, Parseghian or Holtz.

The Ryan dilemma may have the stuff of high drama, of a reluctant Cincinnatus implored by colleagues to save his Congressional party from ruin.

Kaplan may have had the stuff of a top-tier editor, but he also had the wisdom — a surprisingly un-New York brand of wisdom — not to let that be the stuff by which he measured out his life.

Does Motley have the stuff of a conspiracy here?