Sentence examples for illustrious scholars from inspiring English sources
During his long and prolific tenure at Marburg, Natorp came into contact with a number of illustrious scholars and writers.
The death of Robert Bork at the age of 85 has naturally turned attention back to the famous hinge moment in his long career — the confirmation hearings that transformed him from "Robert Bork, illustrious conservative legal scholar" into "Robert Bork, icon of the culture wars," and made his last name a synonym for the demagogic, by-any-means-necessary takedown of a judicial nominee.
The Jains developed their own legendary history, the Deeds of the 63 Illustrious Men, which Western scholars call the Universal History.
"The Shiites in the south, in Najaf, have been free for a week and they are still worried, still afraid," said Abdel Majid al-Khoei, a cleric descended from an illustrious line of Muslim scholars, speaking by satellite telephone from the sacred city.
Perhaps he had felt that the girl wasn't fit to marry a scholar from a family as illustrious as his.
Deeply interested in the roots of human behavior and in the processes of psychological and institutional change, he recorded the illustrious history of the City College Psychology Department based on interviews with notable past scholars including Gardner Murphy and Kenneth Clark, and in 1989 organized the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Department's establishment.
Finally, the 10th-century scholar al-Mas'udi reports (The Meadows of Gold, VIII, 74 75) that ʿUmar was among the "illustrious Muslims" whose portraits were displayed in Byzantine churches in recognition of their valour.
Dickey joined illustrious company.
He is in illustrious company.
This attitude is illustrious".
