Sentence examples for of a better sort from inspiring English sources

It trained a spotlight on Rio's poverty and inequality.Sixteen years later Santa Marta is once again a showcase, but of a better sort.

Contemporary historian William Camden observed of the northern English and the Scots, "there is not a man amongst them of a better sort that hath not his little tower or pile", and many tower houses seem to have been built as much as status symbols as defensive structures.

Trotskyism's big idea was to hold out for a better sort of revolutionary left, under the leadership of Leon Trotsky himself.

"There is nothing I long for more intensely," he once said, "than to be taken for a better sort of Tchaikovsky.

For the problem with eugenics, like Dawkins's belief that it is immoral to keep a baby with Down's syndrome, is that it contains an implicit idea of what a better sort of human being might look like.

He was no longer the outsider.In an interview a few years ago Harry Oppenheimer said he had tried to build a "better sort of society and a better sort of country".

What's required instead is a better sort of centrist.

But simply bombing areas when the emerging powers prove bloodthirsty, and hoping that a better sort of power replaces them, isn't very promising.

So "a better sort of centrist" sees tax cuts as the solution to every fiscal problem, it would appear, no matter the urgency of the crisis.

But the West's superiority never lay just in its capacity to make more or bigger toys; we were also supposed to be a better sort of place.

Likewise, he assumed that if his giving succeeded in developing a better sort of school for deprived urban areas in America, then that model would be widely adopted without his having to think about the political economy of education reform.