Sentence examples for was illustrious from inspiring English sources
Monday's cast was illustrious, with Diana Vishneva as Tatiana, Marcelo Gomes as Onegin, and Natalia Osipova as Olga, Tatiana's sister.
This attitude is illustrious".
He wanted to be "illustrious and unknown," he said.
As he put it in "The Statues in the Public Gardens," "Children, to be illustrious is sad".
These two young tyros are at the beginnings of what could and should be illustrious careers.
There are illustrious walk-ons — the Sing Sing warden Lewis Lawes, the mobsters Dutch Schultz and Joey Gallo.
If the film carefully sidesteps the highly subjective question of which format is better, the roll call of interviewees is illustrious.
The roll call of the swindled is illustrious: Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, author and humanitarian Elie Wiesel, New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg, and the New York Daily News' publisher, Mortimer Zuckerman.
His political career had been illustrious, including serving as prime minister during the first world war, but a major scandal broke over his resignation honours list.
While it may be argued some of those managerial careers have not been illustrious enough to deserve a crack at United, Giggs has yet to commence a managerial career.
Among financiers, his career as an innovator has been illustrious.
