Sentence examples for is proverbial from inspiring English sources

From this tale apparently grew the legend that the sphinx was omniscient, and even today the wisdom of the sphinx is proverbial.

Almost every daily paper heralds the fact of some large bequest to colleges, churches and charities by rich women, but it is proverbial that they never remember the woman suffrage movement that underlies in importance all others".

It is proverbial of bubbles that their imminent end is marked by contagious confidence that they are immortal: this upward spiral being metaphysically different from its precedents in tulips, the South Seas, and bundled mortgages, not to speak of the ineffable Signor Ponzi.

The White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Red Queen and the smoking Caterpillar, the Dormouse dunked in the teapot, the Cheshire Cat's smile hovering in thin air, Alice in pinafore and pumps shrinking and growing and swimming through a pool of her own tears: every character and scene is proverbial.

Among the Greeks, the connection of beauty with love is proverbial from early myth, and Aphrodite the goddess of love won the Judgment of Paris by promising Paris the most beautiful woman in the world.

It is proverbial that lunatics, criminals and peers are banned from serving as MPs; but today in the Commons, the Conservative Gavin Barwell won cross party support for his efforts to cut through the tangle of contradictory and out of date legislation around the question of MPs' mental health.

BEE hives are proverbial models of order.

His strength and balance were proverbial.

Nobody would call them great, but they're proverbial.

This gold was proverbial for its purity until the 10th century.

The wrath of Artemis was proverbial, for to it myth attributed wild nature's hostility to humans.