Sentence examples for uncommon man from inspiring English sources

Wood was both an uncommon man and a typical Union officer.

Rendell is invariably described here as an uncommon man with a common touch.

AARON COPLAND: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man, by Howard Pollack.

"Bound for Glory" captures Guthrie vividly; he was fearsomely gifted and ambitious, and also egalitarian a most uncommon man.

"Bound for Glory" captures Guthrie vividly; he was fearsomely gifted and ambitious, and also egalitarian — a most uncommon man.

He and Jill have been honored with Stanford Associates' Governors' Award and Degree of Uncommon Man and Uncommon Woman, and the School of Medicine's Dean's Medal.

The Bears went to an uncommon man-to-man look on that play.

We need uncommon men and women to make it right.

We need uncommon women standing with uncommon men because our world faces uncommon challenges.

Rape was a last ditch form of courtship, men in their 30s, 40s and 50s regularly married girls of 14 or 15, surplus girls were shoved into convents, incest was not uncommon, men of good breeding fathered scores of illegitimate children, while their wives - or the ones who got caught - might well have been murdered and homosexuals were mutilated or burnt at the stake.

He said the candidate had the "yearning necessary" to win the race, and called him "a very uncommon, common man".