Sentence examples for persons of note from inspiring English sources
In the invitation-only audience, The New York Times reported, were "more persons of note in society and music, perhaps, than New York's greatest concert halls often shelter in a day".
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Even further, the commemoration of some biblical persons of note (including the Virgin Mary) were often omitted entirely.
On 21 November Ahlers reported his findings to the king and later to "several Persons of Note and Distinction".
Surely if there's one thing that celebrities and persons of note do not need in their lives it's a hastily screen-grabbed paper trail of their intimate chat-up techniques?
Syracuse resident White pressed that the new university should locate on the hill in Syracuse (the current location of Syracuse University) due to the city's attractive transportation hub, which would ease the recruitment of faculty, students, and other persons of note.
The only other person of note was the movie director John McTiernan, who pleaded guilty to lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and was sentenced to four months in prison; he has sought to withdraw that plea and is appealing.
And some individual rare books have unique histories or one-of-a-kind metatextual aspects of annotation, marginalia, reader markings, or even inscriptions or dedications by their author or some other person of note.
The editorial policy of the original DNB was remarkably inclusive: any person of note could be included who had lived in, or had a significant connection with the British Isles.
There is no reason to conclude that Hooper was the founder of the cellar door fan club, either, but it is notable that he used a template according to which the story often has been told since: a person of note — brainy, foreign or both — declares the sounds of cellar door to be exceptional, to the surprise of native but less discerning English speakers.
The word is "inappropriate," as in: "It would be highly inappropriate of me (a person of note) to disclose anything on this matter of public interest to you (a reporter, plebeian or sundry member of the hoi polloi)." The debate is not so much about etymology or semantics as about the codes devised by those in power to cloak their secrets, to frustrate honest inquiry, to thwart transparency.
