Sentence examples for of a stature from inspiring English sources

One would be hard-pressed to find a 20th-century Sephardic poet of a stature comparable to those of the four who were selected.

And we might pray for a Basil Radford figure, because our real-life options are politicians of a stature so diminished that they would have seemed impossible in 1949.

Lithographs by Grant Wood and George Bellows are outstanding, and Thomas Hart Benton's exuberant painting, "Spring Tryout," depicting a young man trying to ride a spirited horse, is of a stature one expects of New York or Chicago.

The most common argument against appointing Giles straight away is the sense of a stature gap between him and Flower, a step down in terms of heft and basic leadership muscle.

As a composer of a stature equaled by few in the first half of the 20th century, he fused the essence of Hungarian and related folk music with traditional music to achieve a style that was at once nationalistic and deeply personal.

The deployment of Mr. Emanuel — a former chief of staff to Mr. Obama and an aggressive fund-raiser with close ties to the Obama and Clinton donor networks — gives Democratic groups for the first time a dedicated rainmaker of a stature similar to Karl Rove, the strategist who advises a network of Republican outside groups that are expected to spend as much as $500 million in this election cycle.

Boris has the beginnings of a Churchillian stature about him.

"This is someone of a tremendous stature, a national figure.

Can Keira pull off anything of a similar stature?

The stage was smaller, the program more compact and the imported stars of a lower stature.

He enjoys the company of writers, philosophers, scientists, journalists - and politicians of a certain stature.