Sentence examples for visionary figure from inspiring English sources

An historic and visionary figure, he will be greatly missed.

Mr. Davis is not a charismatic or visionary figure, but he is a disclipined tactical politician.

Nor are they -ites, devout followers of a domineering visionary figure, like Trotskyites, Benthamites or Thatcherites.

Mr. Arngrimsson called him a visionary figure at the only budget airline of its era to have survived.

If so, he would almost certainly be thought of now as a seminal and visionary figure, along the lines of Brian Wilson, Phil Spector or Joe Meek.

The Shakers' early inheritance is English, and began with a strange visionary figure, Ann Lee, born on Leap Day in 1736.

Among his subjects were visionary figures such as James Weldon Johnson, W.E.B.

The irony is that Zemeckis is one of the visionary figures in digital film-making.

A Minimalist turned unabashed fantasist, the sculptor Alice Aycock is one of the more visionary figures to have emerged from the New York art scene of the 1970s.

(Cotter) ★ 'Alice Aycock Drawings: Some Stories Are Worth Repeating' (through July 13) A Minimalist turned unabashed fantasist, the sculptor Alice Aycock is one of the more visionary figures to have emerged from the New York art scene of the 1970s.

A little talked-about result of the phone-hacking scandal, they said, is that the younger visionary figures in the company, namely James and his sister Elisabeth Murdoch, have been at least temporarily marginalized.