Sentence examples for public glory from inspiring English sources

Notwithstanding the stunning naïveté of its subtitle, this book successfully chronicles the private life and public glory of the mid-century's most famous Frenchman.

His public glory was accompanied by personal loneliness: after Oliver Tambo died in April 1993 he described himself as being "like the loneliest man in the world".

With grand philanthropy often comes public glory for wealthy donors, as buildings and institutes are dedicated to benefactors, their names embedded above doorways like graffiti tags chiseled in marble.

His foes might decry this as typical of the way the Tory Mayor operates, never missing the chance to grab public glory for himself and schmoozing filthy private wealth - Barclays sponsoring "Boris bikes" would be cited as a further example.

While Wellington Mara surely had his moments of public glory, John Mara said he believed the expression on his father's face "would have been the same as the one on mine" if he had seen Ann Mara persistently poking Bradshaw in the arm.

It's essential to Styron that these larger-than-life figures be shown, even at the pinnacle of their public glory, as creatures of uncertainty and appetite, just as it's essential that we see Styron himself not merely on the podia of lecture halls or in his book-lined Martha's Vineyard study but suffering the depredations of chronic prostatitis.

Realistic imagery stabilizes the meringues of Italian and Northern Renaissance traditions with which he modelled the Baroque in grandiose, public, polemical glory.

While Sienna Miller cracks wise about ex facie ejaculation and Nick Frost sticks his cock through a public toilet glory hole, back home in St Louis maudlin life lessons are being learned about bullying at school and the difficulties of being an overweight teenager.

Professional sports teams compete with -- and pretty reliably beat out -- art museums for public dollars and glory.

The early Antarctic explorers, more than any others, were urged on by the public appetite for glory.

My first stop is the Red Lion at Wingham, which once doubled as the exterior of the Hand of Glory public house.