Sentence examples for towering stature from inspiring English sources

February 11 2016 February 16 201616 Semyon Bychkov, acclaimed for his recent work with the orchestra, returns for a plum assignment: Mahler's Sixth Symphony, a work of towering stature which the Philharmonic plays magnificently.

"Marshall was a scientist of towering stature," said Dr. Marvin L. Goldberger, a former president of the California Institute of Technology and a former director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.

His arch-rival and predecessor, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, is Dean of the College of Cardinals, which will elect him.It will require a pope of towering stature to heal the wounds and overcome the divisions that have been opened in the past eight years.

In the anti-genocide community Kagame is a man of towering stature.

With his towering stature and silver hair, Ronnie could be just the candidate that makes America believe again.

Rankin is comfortably the fastest bowler England have here which, with his towering stature, makes him a nasty proposition.

He is the most successful chancellor of the exchequer since records began, a political heavyweight of towering intellectual stature and soaring moral purpose.

(Yes, barring an unexpected smoking gun, but he will probably never regain his towering political stature).Media hype notwithstanding, the visa scandal has a deeper meaning: it may one day be seen as a turning point in Germany's war of the generations.

On the editorial page, Jonathan Moyo, a former information minister, characterized the Movement for Democratic Change, the longstanding opposition party now sharing power with Mr. Mugabe, as a treacherous, foreign-financed entity that only now realizes that "history has been kind enough to give them the rare opportunity to work under an iconic African leader with a towering global stature".

Yet many inside and outside the force wonder whether the pileup of scandals and his increasingly authoritarian use of power have diminished his once-towering stature.

Brady, of course, remains the towering figure in the low-stature offense.