Sentence examples for present glory from inspiring English sources

The present glory of Florence is mainly its past.

Beyond Main Street, many stately homes testify to the town's former and present glory.

A billboard off the road congratulated Griffin on the Heisman, present glory and past shame wrapped into the same stretch.

Here, he sings arias from such operas as "La Bohème," "Tosca," "Hoffmann," "Faust," and "Simon Boccanegra," he provides proof of present glory and hints at conquests to come.

Such a gesture plays well in a country where a towering expression of past and present glory has more appeal than fragile ruins; but it may be the boldest defiance of the world heritage regime that UNESCO has ever faced.

Fili, ( Old Gaelic: "seer,") plural filid, professional poet in ancient Ireland whose official duties were to know and preserve the tales and genealogies and to compose poems recalling the past and present glory of the ruling class.

And a publicity campaign lauding the past and present glories of the BBC that coincided with the panel's deliberations did not do much for the corporation's case: members were infuriated at such a wasteful use of licence-payers' money.The panel evidently decided that the BBC is in danger of getting too big for its boots.

7 30, Spoke the Hub Space in the Gowanus Arts Building, 295 Douglass Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718) 408-2324; $15; children, $5. (Dunning) JEREMY WADE (Tonight and tomorrow night) Mr. Wade presents "Glory," a naked duet about prostration, and a new solo, "Fiction".

Two years ago Mr. Williamson showed WB a 30-minute video that presented "Glory Days" as a prime time soap centered on a 25-year-old burned-out writer who returns home to patch things up with family, ex-flame and former friends.

(Rooney) 'Follies' (in previews; opens on Sept. 12) Bernadette Peters, Jan Maxwell, Danny Burstein, Ron Raines and Elaine Paige star in this 1971 Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman musical mix of past and present, theater glory and life laments.

BEDFORD Bedford Presbyterian Church The Rebel Ensemble presents "The Glory of Dresden".