Sentence examples for rich and distinguished from inspiring English sources

His "pupil" from the age of 19, Benedikt was from a rich and distinguished Viennese family.

Swedish is spoken by about 90 percent of the population of Sweden, and Swedish-language literature is rich and distinguished.

Edith Wharton (nee Newbold Jones), who was born into a rich and distinguished New York family in 1862, is perhaps a great city's greatest novelist.

He had a rich and distinguished career in civil service serving as the Assistant Personnel Director for Administrative Services in the City of New York.

The journalist Jeffrey Bernard, describing Freud's afternoons in the betting shop and evenings with the rich and distinguished (including "Princess Margaret's set"), wrote admiringly: "He has cracked the nut of how to conduct a double life".

The test was carried out at the Landing and Impact Research (LandIR) facility at Nasa's Langley Research Centre in Hampton, Virginia, which has a rich and distinguished history going back 50 years.

He came from an old and distinguished and once rich Yankee family — a background one senses in the long jaw and the attenuated, aristocratic face, skin drawn tight over pointed features — and had, he always insisted, a "happy childhood".

"It's no longer just for the rich and famous, for people with distinguished lives".

Dr. Durbin Rowland of the University of Chicago wrote of the first volume: "Each bird seems to have sat or rather perched for a portrait rich in distinguished traits, right in stance, in coloring and even in feathered personality".

Or strong and distinguished?

The first section is eerie and distinguished.