Sentence examples for illustrious figures from inspiring English sources

Tragedy, it was considered, should deal with illustrious figures and significant events.

Isaac Bashevis Singer once lived there, among many other illustrious figures of the arts and letters.

Among the illustrious figures sent out from Halle was Henry Melchior Mühlenberg, the organizer of colonial American Lutheranism.

There are Leibnizstrasse, Kantstrasse, Niebuhrstrasse, and Mommsenstrasse, all for illustrious figures in the great German tradition of moral inquiry.

She spent the French Revolution looking for the heads of the illustrious figures decapitated at the guillotine to make their death masks.

The Internal Medicine Service at Yale is named after Dr. Paul Beeson, one of the most illustrious figures in American medicine in the latter half of the 20th century, who was Chairman of Medicine at Yale from 1952 until 1965.

There is no more illustrious figure in today's musical world than Pierre Boulez.

He gained some momentum and became an illustrious figure among the neighborhood, until an inexplicable checklist of poor choices sent him reeling against the eclectic legacy he'd created for himself.

"David Rappeneau makes highly rendered illustrious figurative drawings.

You have some illustrious literary figures among your ancestors — Alexei and Leo Tolstoy, to name two.

He may, at least, draw some comfort from the illustrious political figures already lining its walls.