Sentence examples for illustrious tradition from inspiring English sources

For all his firsts, Marclay doesn't have the revolutionary impulse; he wants to be part of an illustrious tradition.

This sport has an illustrious tradition of hunting and warfare dating to ancient Egyptian and Greek times.

A long and illustrious tradition of political cartooning has long existed, with Arab cartoonists highlighting high inflation and unemployment, or attacking common enemies, such as Israel and America.

For most of its history, New York was a military town with an illustrious tradition, but these days uniforms are a rarity, following decades of base closings.

"They felt their competitive advantage was to trade on the romanticism and illustrious tradition that no one could match," Mr. Chernow said.

Digging deep into our long, illustrious tradition of presidential dirt, a new book by Peter J. Hatch, "A RICH SPOT OF EARTH": Thomas Jefferson's Revolutionary Garden at Monticello (Yale University, $35), lovingly describes the 1,000-foot 1,000-footegeterracedrden that was restored to its 1812 ­appearance under the author's able direction.

Ms. Vishneva is the most conventional of the women, but her conventions are those of the Mariinsky, the company with the longest and most illustrious traditions in this ballet.

And while the U.S. has a long and storied history of secretly distilling blindingly strong liquor, we're not alone -- these 22 other countries all have illustrious traditions of making alcohol in containers even dirtier than bathtubs.

That might sound like a prosaic pitch, but consider this: Spending hundreds of dollars to go to Broadway to see an over-amped derivative musical or a play compromised by star casting when there are reasonably priced, intimate and vital alternatives that belong to an illustrious New York tradition?

In November, the Elites auditioned for America's Got Talent, continuing their pursuit in the long, illustrious Southern tradition that forces black artists to look elsewhere for recognition and support.

Reflecting a long illustrious entomological tradition starting with Bavarian lepidopterists like Hübner, Esper, Schrank and Herrich-Schäffer, the macrolepidopteran fauna of Bavaria is generally thought to be completely known.