Examples of glory

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The great train-shed, one of the glories of the nineteenth century, lasted just as long as the century itself.
Apparent oppositions, they felt, should not only be tolerated but gloried in: ultimately they would prove to be resolvable in a wider harmony.
By the turn of the twentieth century the public schools had developed a unifying ethos which gloried in the gentlemanly pursuits.
Determined to ensure that later generations did not forget the sacrifices of their forebears, they celebrated the morality tales of their past glories.
What station-building remained was increasingly to reflect the functional, geometrical approach, stressing cubes and cylinders and glorying in reinforced concrete.
Others, however, extolled the glories of trade and its benefits for all.
The answer should lie in the act of moving from sensitivity, even hypersensitivity, to the positive reenactment of past moral glories.
Setting aside the glories of literature and private writing, surviving very early written texts were mostly about bookkeeping and victories in war, treaties and trade.
Just so; but one doubts whether she ever really understood the conceptual threat to her world the tale literally glories in.
We knew there was no glory in war, no victors, only victims.
Whether they achieved worldwide "glory" or influence is problematic; they were both respected and scorned - worse yet, sometimes ignored - in other lands.
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