Sentence examples for such personages from inspiring English sources

For a novelist, the use of such personages is restrictive as much as it is fruitful.

At this event, there was protocol about approaching such personages, at least for journalists.

Because such personages generally are viewed more in terms of exemplifiers of the holy life than as conduits of a revelation (except in the case of several avatāras and bodhisattvas), they are not to be regarded in terms of the typical Western conceptions of angelic beings.

Today, however, there are few such personages; Houston's Bill White is one glaring exception.

And not infrequently, the speculative removal of such personages from the board alters the assessment of the position completely.

Several of Creangă's characteristic novellas are infused with themes from Christian mythology, fictionalizing God, Saint Peter and the army of devils, most often with the comedic intent of showing such personages behaving like regular people.

The religious person may have various relationships with the sacred: as seer, prophet, saviour, monk, nun, priest, priestess, or other such personage.

"[T]o be a man in this world," Langley tells Homer, "is to face the hard real life of awful circumstance, to know there is only life and death and such varieties of human torment as to confound any such personage as God".

The best-known 19th-century examples of the form are Walter Savage Landor's Imaginary Conversations (vols. 1 and 2, 1824; vol. 3, 1828; thereafter sporadically to 1853), sensitive re-creations of such historical personages as Dante and Beatrice.

The pope also provided him with a collection of canons (ecclesiastical regulations) and letters of recommendation to such important personages as Charles Martel, master of the Frankish kingdom, whose protection was essential to Boniface's success.

"When you're dealing with such eminent personages basically it's a bit like painting the Queen of England: I think you be very quiet and just get industrious.