Sentence examples for posterity for the from inspiring English sources

She wanted this game for posterity, for the record.

For posterity, for the fulfillment of a dream little boys still dare to wish come true.

The ones that can't wait want to secure a premature posterity for the here and now.

Some poets, I know, are quite ready to settle for a middle rank, to trade in their hopes of an illustrious posterity for the sake of a few plaudits from their current circle.

The administrative skills and collaborative spirit Mathis brought to such undertakings did not always enable her to triumph over the fractious, ego-driven climate that prevailed in the Hollywood industry, and she has been scapegoated by posterity for the derailment of a few of the era's major productions.

Lawless was disliked by Yeats and by posterity for being on the wrong side.

Caldwell and the Colts passed up the here and now, and posterity, for a pie in the sky that never came, thanks to their Super Bowl loss to the New Orleans Saints.

"Posterity is for the philosopher what the next world is for the man of religion," he once wrote.

Sometimes PBS's "GREAT PERFORMANCES" series does exactly what its title suggests: it captures a one-night-only piece of theatrical or musical magic for posterity, and for the millions of us who couldn't be there in person.

The event would have gone unnoticed by posterity, but for the soothsayer: Johannes Kepler, the astronomer-mathematician (and part-time astrologer) who discovered that planets move in ellipses and set the stage for Newton's theory of gravitation.

Jacques Rivette finessed the aphorism, proposing that every film is a documentary of its own making, not only a record for posterity of the people in it but also a window into the culture that produced it.