Sentence examples for prestige being from inspiring English sources

In such cultures there are two main sources of social prestige: being a victim or standing up for victims.

The final part of the novel finds Shostakovich in the Brezhnev years, at the height of his prestige, being driven by a chauffeur like a paid member of the nomenklatura and confronting the costs of his own cowardice.

"Some people feel there's a certain prestige being affiliated with the museum, and they become attached to that idea," said Janice Barnard, who oversees more than 940 docents at the Metropolitan.

There's the Hardened Edition and the Prestige Edition, the Prestige being the fancier of the two.

The prestige is gratifying.

Prestige is often meaningless.

Prestige is power.

The president's prestige was dwindling anyway.

The president's prestige is up".

jobs, money, and prestige are all elsewhere.

But lost prestige is better than ruin.