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126 examples of Illustrious in a sentence

The history of attempts to tinker with the function of the nervous system is long and illustrious.
So that puts me in pretty illustrious company.
I bring this to you to tell you that in 40 years, I've gone from not being recognized as a human being to standing in front of the illustrious TED crowd today to talk to you about my views.
So, one of my most illustrious forebears at Manchester University, Ernest Rutherford, discoverer of the atomic nucleus, once said, "All science is either physics or stamp collecting."
Over time, he built an illustrious career as a land surveyor, mapping out now-bustling neighborhoods when they were just waist-high wild grass.
Roger Corman has enjoyed his shares of cinematic infamy in his illustrious low-budget career, spanning over 300 movies.
The only real entertainment is provided by the illustrious Kay Francis sporting a lacquered bob with side curls in her role as a depraved countess who shamelessly devours men, including Rathbone, and then spits them out.
And so it started with "Shreik" a send up of horror films, then we had Scary Movie, a genuinely good attempt at a new kind of genre, the illustrious send up.
What has hurt this film is everyone and their Aunt Matilda is comparing it to its illustrious predecessor, which is always going to hurt any show.
It seems a shame that Greta Garbo ended her illustrious career at the age of 36 with this ridiculous mistaken-identity marital romp.
Mohanlal as Narsimha, struggles with his Hindi dialogue and looks embarrassed to be delivering some of the stupidest lines in his illustrious career.
Irene Dunne finished her illustrious career with this so-so movie.
The legendary Boris Karloff ended his illustrious career by making four cheapie fright flick clunkers in Mexico.
The film stars Simon Pegg as Sidney Young, a zany British journalist who takes a job in an illustrious celebrity magazine in New York.
The great film photographer finished his illustrious career with this movie before passing on.
If you're a fan of Adams, whose movie career is nowhere near as illustrious as it should be, check it out; she's great, as always.
It shares this failing with a fairly illustrious list of science fiction classics: "1984", "2001: A Space Odyssey (compare its space station with our International Space Station) and Isaac Asimov's "I Robot" (positronic brains were to have been invented in the 1990's).
Polanski is very good as the timid, deranged resident who, somehow, attracts the ever illustrious Isabelle Adjani.
I do contend nonetheless that "The Prince and the Showgirl" is a delightful comedy in an interesting historic setting with hidden message underneath; a movie in which the supposedly empty-headed blonde looms a lot larger than her illustrious male costar/director.
Never ever has there been another spacecraft as illustrious in design as the Galactica (forget Star Trek's clumsy saucers).
It's obvious that she got the illustrious cast to sign on so her son would have something to do.
Obligatory conservative talking heads aside, Anderson fails to establish himself as an impartial mediator, often seeming intimidated and impressed by his more illustrious interviewees.
At different times in his illustrious career, John Boorman has announced that his intention to make film versions of both The Lord Of The Rings, and Wagners "Ring" cycle.Like Scorsese's plans to do film biographies of Gershwin and Robert Johnson, or Coppola's plans to make versions of Faust and Pinocchio, these grandiose projects have come to nothing.
By my own measure this may even be the most profound role of Gielgud's long and illustrious career.
Perfectly offsetting Micheal Baldoz is Micheal Guerin, in what is probably the greatest role of his illustrious career.
Despite the illustrious cast, there was nothing remotely spiritual in either the characters or the performances, save perhaps Forest Whittaker's scene of repentance in church towards the end, which nevertheless left much unresolved and was ultimately unconvincing.
This is quite possibly the crown jewel in the long and illustrious career of an extremely troubled and very funny man.
These are difficult days for NATO, as Gates, in the twilight of his illustrious tenure, has pointed out.
Hirschman’s interests shifted away from economic development over the course of his illustrious career.
And it drew a standing ovation from all but one of the 1,200 illustrious members of the audience in Frankfurt’s Pauluskirche, where Walser was being awarded the German Booksellers Association Peace Prize.
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