Sentence examples for illustrious characters from inspiring English sources

They were big, ornate and graced by the glorious halo of the illustrious characters who once owned them.

The museum's list of human and canine honorees includes the names of such illustrious characters as Flashy Sir, Isadore Hecht and Donald R. Wootten.

As can be seen, bronze has been positioned throughout the history of mankind as a depository and communicator of the values of illustrious characters, models for humanity, from Greek times until today, being filled with symbolic, historical and poetic values that lie in its physico-chemical, metallurgical and mechanical characteristics.

These illustrious characters may explain why Irving's tales have been adapted for the big screen time and time again.

The illustrious character tenor Graham Clark is his usual vivid self, with strong performances also coming from Anna Prohaska (coloratura soprano) and Alfred Reiter (bass).

James Kendall Hosmer, editing Winthrop's Journal in 1908, wrote of Vane:... his heroic life and death, his services to Anglo-Saxon freedom, which make him a significant figure even to the present moment, may well be regarded as the most illustrious character who touches early New England history.

Plutarch was unusually interested in eclipses, and his Parallel Lives, an account of the deeds and characters of illustrious Greeks and Romans, contains many references to both lunar and solar eclipses of considerable historical importance.

The conception is hardly fresh, but no one has been this hilariously wrongheaded since the character's illustrious forebear, Sherman Hemsley of "The Jeffersons," who receives the homage of a recurring role as Hughley's father-in-law.

Spacey joins an illustrious cast of other fictional characters to be immortalized in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.

What makes the following list of bizarre characters in the long, illustrious tradition of the papacy fascinating is their utter humanity -- sexual, compassionate, greedy, fearful, noble, criminal and thoroughly unpredictable.

As captain, Olazabal, perhaps more than any of his illustrious predecessors, has the experience and character to handle it.