Sentence examples for particularly illustrious from inspiring English sources

It is by a not particularly illustrious Georgian painter, John James Halls, but the picture is unique.

Skull and Bones has, after all, a particularly illustrious alumni roster: two previous presidents (Mr. Bush's father and William Howard Taft), Averell Harriman, McGeorge Bundy, Henry Luce, Potter Stewart, the writer John Hersey and numerous officials in the Central Intelligence Agency, a traditional career path for Bonesmen.

Yes, our prices are high, the French would acknowledge, but our quality, particularly of our most illustrious wines, is incomparable.

It suggests that if I drank the stuff, I wouldn't particularly mind about Starbucks' illustrious history of union bashing or its part in the organisation that opposed the right to allow Ethiopian coffee farmers to make money by trademarking their own beans.

With an illustrious ancestry (the Lebedevs particularly like the story of the relative who led Catherine the Great's fleet), Greig is scrupulously polite, even gracious, in answering questions.

Particularly one who believed himself so illustrious in life that all he really needed to be immortalized was a dramatic ending.

She has handled these undue burdens, particularly in the later stages of her illustrious career, with an uncommon strength and grace.

Brendan Rodgers is 100% his own man and he will not hesitate to tell you so, particularly when the conversation turns to a certain illustrious Portuguese manager.

He singled out as particularly objectionable the historical chapter, called "A Long and Illustrious History," whose first page depicts a rousing scene from the Battle of Trafalgar.

The British Museum was rebuilt in the 1820s and greatly expanded its collections in the 19th century, particularly in the fields of ethnography and antiquities, acquiring such illustrious materials as the Rosetta Stone and the Elgin Marbles.

But all members of the team, particularly the drivers, are aware of what it means to be reviving such an illustrious name.