Sentence examples for illustrious example from inspiring English sources

Marcel Proust, to take only the most illustrious example, fictionalized the lives and names of well-known Parisian contemporaries.

We will miss you always, and we know how fortunate we were to learn from your illustrious example.

In asking the question with such heart-stopping intensity, it becomes the latest and most illustrious example of a phenomenon that has always existed but that has somehow taken on greater urgency and inventiveness in our age of long lives and multiple choices.

Built in 312 BC, it is the most illustrious example of Roman civil engineering skills; small sections of it are still in use today.

The 'Plotinian' (cf. Enneads V 3.6) Aristotle figure of Suhrawardi's famous dream-vision found in his Intimations (cf. Walbridge 2000 225 99) provides us with an illustrious example of what constitutes, for Suhrawardi, real knowledge based on immediate and intuitive knowledge.

The British Library says that it has digitized about one per cent of its total collection (including the more illustrious examples from its 'Treasures' collection and its catalogue of illuminated manuscripts) but it specifies that its content is only open to "researchers".

Communication Power, a new book by sociologist Manuel Castells, provides a bevy of illustrious examples of how grassroots campaigns could use the Internet to bring public attention to issues as diverse as climate change and the war in Iraq.

This small but illustrious show is another example of the Met's commendable practice of building exhibitions from its own collection with little or no call on outside sources.

To use an illustrious and similarly expensive example, Chelsea legend and current team-mate Didier Drogba took 12 league matches of his first season to do the same after joining from Marseille for £24m in 2004.

By the example of illustrious ancestors and glorious women in their family tradition, girls learn the arts of seduction, the art of keeping the attention of their husband, and the more subtle art of appearing to submit to marital authority.

Fired by the example of his illustrious predecessor Henry V, the victor of Agincourt, Henry VIII had entered into the Holy League, instigated by Pope Julius II against France, and prepared to attack England's traditional enemy.