Sentence examples for most lasting of from inspiring English sources

Wilde's aestheticism, his fanatical cult of beauty, was the deepest and most lasting of his passions, and it is now the most radical thing about him.

Yet she was no stranger to Capitol Hill, and some view her work on behalf of the developmentally challenged, including the founding of the Special Olympics, as the most lasting of the Kennedy family's contributions.

The most lasting of their novels, Germinie Lacerteux (1864), was based on the double life of their ugly, seemingly impeccable servant, Rose, who stole their money to pay for nocturnal orgies and men's attentions.

It was one of the five greatest players who have ever graced the game, Mario Lemieux, who just a few months ago, following a fight-marred game between the Penguins and the Islanders, said words that, though they got swallowed up by the surrounding noise, may prove to be the most lasting of this season.

Though the composer's name (pronounced NYEH-kee) will not ring many bells, opera lovers everywhere recognize Illica as the librettist -- on his own or with collaborators -- for "Manon Lescaut," "La Bohème," "Andrea Chénier" and "Madama Butterfly," to name only the most lasting of his achievements.

That these may be intimately linked, not only at times of insufficiency and misery, but at times of prodigious wealth-creation and excess, is the taboo which prevents a more rigorous examination of that most lasting of relationships, the one between economy and society.

Gaza's youngest residents still appear to be bearing the heaviest and most lasting consequences of last summer's war.

But beyond the narrow confines of one man, perhaps the most lasting meaning of the sad story of Reverend Flowers could be that he's the tip of another iceberg.

But that did not diminish the role of the Deir Yassin massacre as having "probably the single most lasting effect of any single event of the war in precipitating the flight of Arabs from Palestine".

Some of comedian Joshua Snyder's most lasting memories of "Star Trek" came from the weekly TV ritual of watching new episodes of "The Next Generation" with his dad.

They were my first heroes, and their respect for me has been one of the most lasting ambitions of my life.