Sentence examples for improving on history from inspiring English sources

Improving on History Recollections Draw Skepticism and Praise Mr. Daily's own recollections of his invented combat experiences became grippingly real.

Or, is it simply that a big movie with Pacino and De Niro had to bring its firepower together, in the way Friedrich Schiller could not resist improving on history with a meeting between Queen Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots in his play Mary Stuart?

All presidents seek to improve on history.

On the other hand, reviewer Robert Adams suggested that García Márquez had "improved on history".

But this Uruguayan team, however valiant, will not equal the performances of the 1930 and 1950 teams that won the World Cup The Dutch still have a chance to improve on their history, and they have four days to rest for their nation's most important game since the 1974 and 1978 finals.

He greatly improved on-time ratings.

Things are slowly improving on the ground.

There's no improving on the original.

Mexico and Japan meet in the other semifinal, hoping to improve on their shared history.

Siler joined the middleweight Andre Dirrell, the welterweight Vanes Martirosyan and the lightweight Vicente Escobedo in victory for a team that believes it can improve on its recent history.

The biggest surprise in an unprecedented display of underthings is the fact that the male sex has been as eager as the female to alter or improve on nature — throughout history from the Middle Ages onward.