Illustrious

The actor's illustrious career was honored at a gala event attended by a bevy of A-list celebrities.

That poodle has an immaculate pedigree, with illustrious ancestors on both sides stretching back generations.

Our illustrious leader wrote those words before he rose to power.

In a career just barely a decade old, he has been seen and heard on illustrious stages in Vienna, London, Milan, Zurich, New York and Los Angeles — in an array of lyric tenor roles.

Massinissa was the most illustrious king of Numidia.

He then proceeds to introduce his illustrious interlocutors, and leads them at first to discourse on the astronomical laws that regulate the revolutions of our planet.

During those months, Dorothy McKibben would greet and often befriend some of the great scientific minds of the 20th century—from promising young graduate students like Richard Feynman to illustrious nuclear pioneers like Enrico Fermi.

From an illustrious Trojan lineage will be born Caesar, who will extend his empire to the ocean and his fame to the stars.

A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down, with a generous neglect, on the censures and applauses of the multitude, and places a man beyond the little noise and strife of tongues. Accordingly we find in ourselves a secret awe and veneration for the character of one who moves above us, in a regular and illustrious course of virtue, without any regard to our own good or ill opinions of him, to our reproaches or commendations.

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh. The father of a long, long line of brilliant laughs!