Sentence examples for local luminaries from inspiring English sources

Patti Smith and other local luminaries played a benefit concert.

These local luminaries are no longer the patriarchs but the wives.

The Bronxville Public Library owns an extensive collection of art produced by local luminaries.

She reeled off a list of local luminaries, including the actress and singer Christine Ebersole, who lives in Maplewood.

Often it was a guy with whom I'd done the clubs the night before along with diplomats and local luminaries.

Terry Wade, the deputy leader of the council, was one of the local luminaries who lost his seat.

Another Pulitzer recipient, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who won in 1939 for her novel "The Yearling," was a local luminary.

Stone and Jeff had been playing with a local luminary, Andrew Wood, a singer and writer of monumental charisma and talent.

"You're supposed to get out of town; it's just not classy to stay," said one local luminary.

Smith begins to draw a 3D-effect badger, with a view to using it to get Queen guitarist Brian May, a local luminary, on side.

And the excitement with which the audience aims its camera phones at Mr. Bayless after the show, when the cast mingles amiably with the patrons, makes clear that he is very much a local luminary.