Sentence examples for whose legend from inspiring English sources

There was Burton B. Roberts, whose legend gave birth to a character in Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities".

American frontier heroine whose legend of valour in the face of attack by American Indians provided the subject of literary chronicle and fiction.

He has disappeared from public view, perhaps emulating the Hidden Imam of the Shia Muslims whose legend figured in the creation of the Rajavi personality cult.

O'Hagan's book told the story of a murderer known as Bible John whose deeds and, just as important, whose legend terrorised Glasgow in the mid-1960s.

Parkinson's is a cruel trial for anyone, but especially for someone whose legend depended on the skills the illness targets – movement and speech.

Picked on in Forest Hills, Joey made himself a star of anti-charisma, fronting a band whose legend drew on failure as easily as success.

It's a threat to romanticized scouts whose legends are built on a 5percentt success rate.

Its looming granite cliff rises 763feett from the lake and, the guidebooks say, was holy to American Indians, whose legends turned it into the petrified corpse of a giant, sin-avenging moose.

The song pays tribute to George Jones, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Johnny Cash, singers whose legends endured even when their radio careers did not: "They lived what they wrote, and they wrote what they sang / And getting kicked outta country didn't hurt a thing".

Where the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame generally advertises using the names of stars whose legends can be felt inside, the Experience Music Project tries to reach deeper into the psyche, explaining on billboards that it is a museum for people who sing in the shower or drum on their car steering wheels.

Despite Georgia's Byzantine-leaning culture, the country's intimate trade connection with the Middle East is evidenced on contemporary Georgian coinage, whose legends were composed in Georgian and Arabic.