Sentence examples for once esteemed from inspiring English sources

Once esteemed as cultural benefactors, they came to be seen, in some quarters, as hoarders and thieves.

Few readers are likely to know of this once esteemed writer from Mobile, Ala., who died in 1998 at 76. Walter's greatest success came early.

"Elektra" was once esteemed by historians for its "advanced" musical passages that pressed against atonality, but it is now recognized that Strauss constantly sought ways to augment traditional tonality.

It's hard to work up too much sympathy for Williams -- a once esteemed journalist who has repeatedly embarrassed himself in recent years as a soloist in Bill O'Reilly's amen chorus.

None of the plays of his younger contemporaries, Caecilius Statius (c. 210 168) and Marcus Pacuvius (c. 220 130), survive, nor do the once highly esteemed tragedies of Lucius Accius (170 c. 86).

There may also be a sense that Isis and al-Qaeda-type groups, whom Sunni rulers and their peoples may once have esteemed as victorious military vanguards of their communities, are proving a disaster for the Sunni in Iraq and Syria.

Another Braves slugger, the esteemed Hank Aaron, once called total bases the most important offensive statistic, so that is good enough to be the tie breaker here.

Rutgers, the eighth-oldest university in the country, was once among its most esteemed public institutions, but has seen its reputation slip in recent years.

He once wrote, "I esteem my readers, since they enable me to live without working.

In a moment of distinguished poignancy, the esteemed philosopher Eminem once said: "I am whatever you say I am, if I wasn't, then why would I say I am?" It turns out that what seemed like a rhetorical question has become more difficult to answer in the age of social networks.

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