Sentence examples for something of a patron from inspiring English sources

ROANNE ADAMS The graphic designer Roanne Adams is something of a patron saint for emerging New York fashion designers.

A subplot is Mary's relationship with the artist Edgar Degas who, in real life, encouraged her work and became something of a patron.

William Jennings Bryan remains something of a patron saint to the economic populists, but it was Theodore Roosevelt who channeled the popular unrest of the day into a movement away from unbridled corporatism.

"Like Muslims go to Mecca and Christians go to the Vatican, sculptors must come to Carrara," said Giuliano Gori, an art curator and collector from Pistoia, near Florence, who has become something of a patron of Carrara.

Yesterday, Leslie Hill, a family member and trustee who became something of a patron saint within the Journal's newsroom for her opposition to the deal, resigned from the company's board.

Though he is neither wealthy nor powerful, Mr. Leonard has become something of a patron saint for the emerging Harlem arts scene in the last few years, which he suggested is undergoing a revolution akin to the Langston Hughes-Cotton Club days of the 1920's, but in a more broadly inclusive manner.

For Pepsi, the goal is to enhance its reputation with consumers by acting as something of an artistic patron instead of simply paying for celebrity endorsements.

For Pepsi, Mr. Sisario writes, "the goal is to enhance its reputation with consumers by acting as something of an artistic patron instead of simply paying for celebrity endorsements".

Patron-dancer relationships have something of a sordid history: in the 19th century, when ballet dancers were seen as dissolute, sexually available figures, the management of the Paris Opera Ballet abetted liaisons between ballerinas and men with season tickets.

That would have been something of a face-saver for Serbia and its Russian patrons when Kosovo declared independence.

Rumor Willis and Michelle Rodriguez have become something of patron saints for the sexually emboldened woman.