Sentence examples for lasting glory from inspiring English sources

Known for the irascible, self-doubting persona he cultivated in American Splendor and his day-to-day existence, the frizzy-haired, wild-eyed Mr. Pekar, a writer whose comics were illustrated by other artists, was an improbable candidate for lasting glory.

Infielder Luis Sojo lounged in the lasting glory of the moment.

Esther achieved lasting glory for becoming wife to the Persian king (probably Xerxes in the fifth century BC) and saving her people from persecution.

If there is an assumption in today's club game that real, lasting glory is pre-ordained, dynastic, something bought up in a timeshare by a revolving cast of the same four or five superpowers, Russia 2018 has seemed on a quest to embarrass that stasis.

But the narrative perhaps demands one last glory.

Its last glory came 17 years ago when it became the only French team to win the Champions League.

She had nothing left but Stratford, and her last glory there was the peerless Oh, What A Lovely War!, a work of genius in which all her techniques came together.

The new discoveries, scholars say, promise to deliver new insights into the last glory years of the classic Maya period, which ended around A.D. 900, and should push back its beginnings well before the usual date of A.D. 250.

A statue of him was unveiled at Craigavon Civic Centre in 1993, over 120 years after his last glory in 1871.

The rise of feminism almost exactly overlaps with the last glory days of filmmaking (roughly 1967 to 1978), yet the era as portrayed in Peter Biskind's compelling history Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is one of pure male ego and excess.

egos would be satisfied, many more people would be employed in fields where money is now hard to come by, and our ancestors could read or touch lasting monuments to executive glory.