Sentence examples for highest stature from inspiring English sources

For the most part, the Met is still having trouble attracting conductors of the highest stature to its roster, though this season did offer Julius Rudel in "Manon" and Charles Mackerras in "The Makropulos Case".

Though his career included few acts of genius and little public acclaim, Ellsworth's political skill, balanced judgment, and clarity of purpose entitle him to recognition as a founder of the highest stature.

Most jazz pianists of comparably high stature would have already made their solo-piano records.

It's hollow to praise an author merely because he has high stature.

Few questioned her legacy and high stature among secretaries of state.

"He was well regarded as someone of a high stature in the church by the kids and by myself," BWF told the commission.

After positive reaction to his spring collaboration with Alejandro Ingelmo, he gave sky-high stature and prints another go around in his fall 2011 collection.

"Reagan showed what high stature that a president can have -- and my fear is that Bush will look diminished by comparison," said one Republican sympathetic to Mr. Bush, who did not want to be quoted by name criticizing the president.

It would be different if each change in age were celebrated and if getting older were understood in terms of wisdom and you achieved some kind of higher stature, but at the moment it is thought to be all downhill.

(Chinen) ★ Jeremy Pelt Quintet (Tuesday and Wednesday) "Soul" (MaxJazz), the impressive new album by Jeremy Pelt, ratifies his high stature as a modern-thinking postbop trumpeter and confirms the durable rapport of his working band.

No other 15th-century artist was dignified by having a funerary chapel dedicated to him in the major church of the city where he worked, which attests to the high stature Mantegna came to enjoy in his adopted city.