Sentence examples for illustrious examples from inspiring English sources

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.

Needless to say, Oedipus is the most illustrious example of the Sophoclean hero.

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.

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

Though I teach Roland Barthes' "Death of the Author" as an illustrious example of how criticism broadens our regard of fictional works, the essay threatens to plunge class thought and discussion into an abyss.

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.

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.

Other illustrious American examples — in Boston or Cleveland St . Louis or New York Philadelphia Kansas Cityty, Mo.; Toledo, Ohio; or Chicago — have been at it far longer.

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.