Sentence examples for previous glory from inspiring English sources

("I want to revive them to their previous glory, before they became a novelty act," Mr. Segel said.

And one has to look only at the previous glory of social giants like Myspace, Friendster and Digg, and at how rarely they are currently mentioned, to understand how fragile the line is between life and death for a site.

Not that long ago, as their cameras showed us the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, television reporters earnestly declared that New Orleans might never return to its previous glory as The Big Easy.

Though the caravanserais of the Silk Road have received more attention, Mr Miksic argues the southern, maritime route was much more important from both cultural and commercial points of view.Singapore's previous glory was no more than a century long.

Mr. Cuomo has a passionate if at times nostalgic view of the state's history, and he implored lawmakers to return New York to its previous glory, to an era when it was not a symbol of shame and scandal, a period that, in his version of history, typically ends on the day his father left office.

The more acclaimed or popular a show is, the more tempted we are to find fault when the new season does not appear to live up to the nostalgia-enhanced memories of previous glory.

At the other end of the spectrum, are deranged, egotistical celebrities cashing in on their previous glories.

A player living on previous glories, who generates more heat than light, his sense of entitlement is as unimpressive as it is unworthy.

Marks has mapped out a plan for a return to the brand's previous glories that involves shutting unprofitable stores and improving its ranges.

Beale, with bulging eyes and puffed-out chest, like an about-to-burst inflatable, nods to previous glories – London Assurance and Privates on Parade – rather than creating a new one.

The remnants of ancient faiths and previous glories touch the edges of the frame; echoes of the Vili people of the Kingdom of Loango, maybe, who traded their copper, finely carved objets d'art, and luxurious fabrics with the people of Holland, a historical memory that is here transmuted — but somehow not reduced — into a tablecloth patterned with flowers and a Dutch windmill that turns no more.