Sentence examples for worldly glory from inspiring English sources

Thus passes away worldly glory.

Sandy, co-director of the lab, is a charismatic dynamo, but too enamoured with worldly glory.

Caught in the act of a graceful, dancelike gesture, he seems to have turned away from worldly glory.

W. Somerset Maugham, the most successful writer of his time and maybe the most glamorous as well, set a dazzling standard for worldly glory that younger writers impotently envied.

He wrote music as well as prose, and one of his operas, Le Devin du village (1752; "The Village Soothsayer"), attracted so much admiration from the king (Louis XV) and the court that he might have enjoyed an easy life as a fashionable composer, but something in his Calvinist blood rejected that type of worldly glory.

Ms. Conner has followed the lotus, which in Chinese art symbolizes transient worldly glory and in Buddhism is emblematic of enlightenment and purity, from broad leaf and bloom to empty stalk and seed pod, then on to versions painted on doorways and worked into metal fences.

In a world where few believed in an afterlife, this-worldly glory mattered immensely.

The term elegy is used of Old English poems that lament the loss of worldly goods, glory, or human companionship.

It was intended as a reminder of the vanity of worldly power and glory.

In his worst moments Mr. O'Brien declares that he has wound up with "zilch," and he recriminates himself for chasing after worldly success and missing out on "the glory".

Perhaps it invokes stories of a day at the seashore (where the original Knickerbocker Glory was invented) or, more recently, a recount of other worldly wizarding moments a la Harry Potter.