Sentence examples for of illustrious from inspiring English sources

Walls are lined with photos of illustrious graduates.

The list of illustrious patrons includes Oscar Wilde, Caruso, Andre Gide, Paul Valery and Ernest Hemingway.

Is there nothing left for the modern blues player to do except to replicate the work of illustrious forebears?

Recalling those early happy days, he mentioned the names of illustrious teachers at Yale -- Mildred Dunnock, Stella Adler, Robert Lewis.

It illustrates the level of illustrious company he would join if donning the Green Jacket once more.

He was following a series of illustrious productions that had transferred from Cambridge to the West End.

AMID the world's wide range of illustrious dancers, I draw attention to a rare species that may soon become extinct: the Merce Cunningham performer.

Allow me to say that, to their credit, the performers here don't seem daunted by the ghosts of illustrious actors past.

Actor Sir Derek Jacobi has joined the list of illustrious names to have appeared in ITV's long-running soap opera, Coronation Street.

She was engaged, moreover, in the oldest science of all, the study of the influence of stars and planets on the lives of illustrious people.

Although France is unlikely to remove the Panthéon's inscription to the "grandes hommes," Bélaval suggests we think of it as "celebration of illustrious people".