Sentence examples for kept a bust of from inspiring English sources

The terrier was named Castro, after Fidel; in his office, he kept a bust of Lenin.

Since the early nineteen-fifties, when he kept a bust of Lenin in his study at Worcester College, Oxford, he has considered himself a maverick.

He liked to call himself a wartime President, and he kept a bust of his hero Winston Churchill in the Oval Office.

Uncle Gustav later settled in America; he became a training analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, published widely, and kept a bust of Freud in the front hall of the family's apartment, on Fifth Avenue.

The purchase of the London Sun, in 1969, for instance, roughly coincided with Murdoch's transformation from an Oxford leftist who had kept a bust of Lenin in his room into a passionate capitalist.

Long after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the journalist Geoffrey Goodman, who has died aged 91, kept a bust of Lenin on his desk – more as a testament to his youth than an enduring belief in communism.

He keeps a bust of Tweety Bird next to the busts of U.S. presidents in his office.

The man who keeps a bust of Napoleon in his office and writes poetry is more at home with destiny and grandeur than fiscal policy.

Norquist, who used to keep a bust of Lenin in his home and who sometimes refers to businessmen as "corporate pukes," revels in an age of ideological purity.

A romantic idealist, who writes poetry in his spare time and keeps a bust of Napoleon in his office, Mr de Villepin would not be a straightforward choice, however.

He keeps a bust of the civil rights leader in the Oval Office along with a framed program from the 1963 march, and some of his favorite lines have been adopted from Dr. King.