Sentence examples for treasure of world from inspiring English sources

Whether you see him as a bitter crank, a treasure of world literature, or a Padma Lakshmi marrying glitteratus, Rushdie remains focused on his work.

"So in a way, the Met has fulfilled its role of safeguarding treasures of world culture".

"It is one of the great treasures of world art," said Irene J. Winter, an art history professor at Harvard.

And it's that very conflict that renders the film all the more despicable, the experience of the film more of a torment — together with the acknowledgment that Griffith, whose short films for Biograph were already among the treasures of world cinema, yoked his mighty talent to the cause of hatred (which, still worse, he sincerely depicted as virtuous).

While the public function of the storytellers may have disappeared from most countries of the Arabic-speaking world, the collections of tales that they performed remain as a remarkable treasure trove of world narrative.

Earlier he served as UN special representative to Haiti and to South Africa, building his reputation as a "national treasure" of the world body.

"I am rich Potosí, treasure of the world, king of all mountains and envy of kings" read the city's coat of arms, and the pieces of eight that flowed from it helped make Spain the global superpower of the period.

The world is coming to an end and the artistic treasures of the world are being sent out into the universe in a space capsule in hopes some civilization in the future will retrieve and preserve them.

We have expended ever-increasing amounts of blood and treasure, alienated much of world opinion and provided a recruiting tool for Islamic fanatics in order to eliminate a relatively minor threat that had already been adequately contained through internationally sanctioned means.

Because the Seagram paintings are among the true art treasures of the world.

His looting of the treasures of the world for his castle at San Simeon symbolized his imperial status.