Sentences with phrase «with such great tradition»

I walked up to him before the game and congratulated him on being in the league and being the starting quarterback of a team and franchise I had once worked for, one with such great tradition.

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The editor of the New Yorker, David Remnick, recently contrasted modern writers in Russia with the tradition of the Great Russian Writer: such figures as Gogol, Tolstoy, and even Solzhenitsyn, who represented both sagacity and idealism.

Bloom's counterweight to this dreary reductionism is the Great Tradition of Western letters from Plato to Tolstoy; and most of the book is devoted to individual chapters on such novelists as Rousseau, Austen, Stendahl, and Tolstoy, with a whole section devoted to the romantic comedies and tragedies of Shakespeare, and a concluding fugue on Plato's Symposium.

But other writers, such as Robert Fitzgerald (with whose family Flannery O'Connor lived until she developed lupus), saw themselves as part of reviving a great tradition.

The tradition of Spanish tapas is such a fun way to eat — bite - sized morsels of tasty food that just happen to taste great with Spanish wines.

While the recipes are great, at least as important to me are the chapter introductions, which Nava fills with tips for creating stress - free holiday feasts and a wealth of information about holiday traditions, as well as extras such as an extensive guide to vegan grilling.

Ward, who goes along with such criticism, reported nevertheless that he had found a defender for Cus, a defender who was willing to describe him publicly as «intelligent, honest and articulate,» with qualities «that could make him a manager in the great tradition of the past, ranking him with men like Joe Jacobs, Eddie Mead, Dumb Dan Morgan Jack Kearns and Jimmy Johnston.

Time for the professor to go and let new manager to reorganise the team that could win trophies for such a great club with great traditions.

The Dutch have done much soul - searching over why a country with such a strong liberal tradition has a socking great cuckoo in its political nest.

Aged twenty, brought up in an academic environment and a relative comfortable and stable background, I was also equipped with a rich and romantic notion of Great Britain; grandeur of Theatrical traditions, graceful and elegant lifestyles of the «upper - classes», associated with King Arthur, the Tudors, beautiful gardens and estates, such as recently shown in successful series like Downton Abbey etc. etc., the actual reality of life would prove differently.

In conclusion, despite having great core gameplay that continues with the Ninja Gaiden tradition, such as awesome swordplay and interesting boss fights, the game is simplified to a fault and diluted with cinematic gameplay elements that cripple it in the process.

The selection also illustrates some of the art - historical traditions in L.A. such as 1960s Pop art, the Conceptual art of the 1970s, Minimalism with its Finish Fetish, the Light and Space movement, the great and important post-conceptual movements, and not least all the artists with a social and political engagement.

I write at such length and so warmly because Hoyland is a terrific artist and people don't seem to know what's authentic and what isn't right now or the difference between what's academic and what adds an authentic inch or two to a great tradition, as the American painter Morris Louis did with his translucent painted veils and neurasthenic draft of speed and movement, and as Hoyland's work, very differently, does now — only he goes much further.

And with strong tradition and civic pride, the city has thrived for much longer than its Oregon follower, enduring such threats at The Great Fire in 1866.

The company emphasises in its statement that Luxembourg, a country with long - standing financial traditions and European headquarters for such companies as Skype, PayPal and Amazon, treats security issues with great responsibility.