Sentence examples for unexpected glory from inspiring English sources

But then the ghosts or the mystique or whatever it is that has propelled the Canadiens to unexpected glory this spring took over.

By that time, a chase by Gilbert ran out of steam and Vinokourov was able to ride alone on the final uphill ramp to unexpected glory.

Fulham v Notts County: Roy Hodgson's Fulham have been on a bad run of late so his old friend Sven-Goran Eriksson has reason to hope the Notts County project might enjoy a touch of unexpected glory after all.

The serene aspect of St Luke's, restored to new and unexpected glory after all these years, conceals dark, skeletal secrets along with extensive new foundations, miles of new ducting, cabling and wiring, and everything architects and sound engineers have been able to do to create a music box - a superlative conceit - that the LSO and London can be proud of.

As the Rugby Football Union basks in unexpected glory and anticipates lucrative new deals, its administrators too feel in a parallel universe having spent the last three years telling all and sundry that the structure of the domestic game did not lend itself to success on the international field because players were being overburdened.

Then there's the unexpected glory of a sunrise that arrives hours too early when you fly overseas, the majestic rays illuminating the horizon of another continent.

Oh! Glory, Glory Hallelujah.

IT wasn't an accidental invention, exactly, but it was certainly one that followed an unexpected trajectory to glory.

Nervous, petite and a bit shy, Sally Hawkins is about to become one of Britain's most successful exports – and to give the town of Dagenham an unexpected moment of international glory.

It may be that the final score in penalties would have been the same without that geste, but the blow certainly changed the flavor and meaning of the French ascent: from something entirely wonderful and unexpected — a climb to glory — to something painful and all too human: a fall from grace.

The small hotel gardens one may visit, and the many private gardens visible behind the larger villas in Ravello, Amalfi, Positano, and on the island of Capri, while perhaps not worthy of major features in the guidebooks, contribute to an unexpected extent to the glories of this part of Italy.