Sentence examples for rare figures from inspiring English sources

Both men, it turned out — Groucho the flagrant misanthrope and Eliot the restrained one — were those rare figures in whom public persona and private personality aligned.

Derek Lam, one of the rare figures to focus on American sportswear, talked about "hidden elegance" back to the streamlined looks of the designers Halston and Zoran.

About 50 when the revolt began, he was one of those rare figures — Trotsky is the only other who comes to mind — who in midlife suddenly became a self-taught military genius.

Long before his name was hijacked by a 1960s crooner from Leicester, Engelbert Humperdinck was one of those rare figures in music history - a composer who became a household name on the basis of a single work.

Bruce Springsteen is only a year older, and the two near-coevals are the rare figures who have successfully maintained an entire professional life span in rock and roll, the music of youth.

For both, Osama bin Laden, who has been killed at the age of 54 by US special forces at a compound near Abbottabad, a town about 50 miles north-east of Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, was one of those rare figures whose actions changed the course of history.

Very rarely moved by the death of public figures, but Bob Crow was a rare figure.

Out goes a remarkable and rare figure in French politics – a one-term president.

Soros's Wall Street background makes him a relatively rare figure in the world of Democratic donors.

Gill was that rare figure — a celebrated writer who was also a lion of New York's civic and social worlds.

Finally, we go to Russia and look at a rare figure — a Russian woman holding her own in politics.