Sentence examples for stature beyond from inspiring English sources

Dreiser's considerable stature, beyond his historic importance as a pioneer of unvarnished truth-telling in modern literature, is due almost entirely to his achievements as a novelist.

[So] a romance by a male author reviewed by a male reviewer gains stature beyond the usual expectation of the genre".

Architecturally the designs were no more sophisticated than the usual speculative project, but Mulliken & Moeller so often repeated the same basic solution that their work has acquired a familiarity that gives it a stature beyond its actual accomplishment.

Benedict's discretion is manifested in his repeated allowances for differences of treatment according to age, capabilities, dispositions, needs, and spiritual stature; beyond this is the striking humanity of his frank allowance for weaknesses and failure, of his compassion for the physically weak, and of his mingling of spiritual with purely practical counsel.

Their professional stature extends beyond their study of domestic life.

An artist of Bowie's stature is beyond awards.

Gigantism, excessive growth in stature, well beyond the average for the individual's heredity and environmental conditions.

Morally and metaphysically, Braque had a stature that was beyond rivalry, unapproachable.

Even the obituaries published in the island's monthly paper, The Island Current, will sometimes identify people as clam diggers, thus bestowing on them a stature that extends beyond their other mortal achievements.

For all his controversies, his stature is well beyond merely senatorial; during the years of Reagan and Bush, he was a kind of anti-President in the Senate, opposing the Gulf War, pushing abortion rights, often standing alone in his battles for the liberal cause.

With just over two years to go until Kurt Masur's contract with the New York Philharmonic comes to an end, and with most conductors of stature booked well beyond that date, Philharmonic officials say that the orchestra is not close to naming Mr. Masur's successor.