Sentence examples for more significant figures from inspiring English sources

Basil Fawlty, Alan Partridge, David Brent – they are all men who believe themselves to be far more significant figures than they actually are.

What one can glean from the connective tissue between the more significant figures profiled here is that these comic figures were united by their willingness to hang up their tuxedos, both figuratively and literally, and begin to find humor in areas of life that had previously been considered taboo in public discussion: sex, politics and religion.

There is a hierarchy of size, with the more significant figures larger and enthroned in their niches rather than standing.

Miliband is a more significant figure after conference season 2013.

By any rational measure he is a far more significant figure than Mr. Van Zandt, and "Timeless" is worthy of him.

He said a more significant figure was the sale price of existing co-op and condominium apartments, which was down 20.9percentto to $732,000, since the first quarter of last year.

Yet with China's increasing dominance, Buck appears a more significant figure in the history of the 20th century, and ripe for rediscovery.

American intelligence and law enforcement officials say Mr. Mohamed has emerged in recent months as a more significant figure in Al Qaeda's planning for the Sept. 11 attacks than previously believed.

Widner, whose story Weerasethakul also explored in one of his shorts, Cactus River, has become an even more significant figure in Cemetery of Splendour, which foregrounds her habit of knitting baby socks and her relationship with her American husband.

American intelligence and law enforcement officials say Mr. Mohammed has emerged in recent months as a more significant figure in Al Qaeda's planning for the Sept. 11 attacks than previously believed.

A few pages into Richard West's superb The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Daniel Defoe, one wonders why Defoe is not a more significant figure in our cultural history.