glory

In their quest, personal glory and public vanity are forever at odds.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026

I’d be thinking, I’m going to have him through his glory years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

Thick, tough evergreen needles are specially adapted to withstand drought and cold, but the thinner, broader leaves of deciduous trees cannot survive such harsh conditions and so go out in a blaze of autumnal glory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Some find success sweet but fleeting, others spend years building to the pinnacle, and then there are those whose lasting glory evolves into a dynasty.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

On the other hand, the toddler’s illness also threw an obstacle in Mrs. Kedzie’s path to spiritual glory, riches, or both.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

The team studied morning glories as part of a broader effort to understand how human-caused global change is shaping evolution.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

He remained a hero to swathes of his countrymen, who saw in him the Serbian martial spirit and an echo of the past glories of their nation.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Sometimes they featured celebrities recounting past glories or promoting their newest releases.

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026

From her earliest years, Emily thrilled to the austere glories of the landscape, with its great desolate stretches of rocky turf and rushing waterways all shaped and pummeled by winds that whistled and “wuthered.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

“Oh, I think He glories in them!” she hastened to say.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

He again gloried in the spotlight on Thursday, as the purveyor of information about the whereabouts of Mr. Prigozhin.

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2023

The then-deputy L.A. police chief and future chief James Davis — who gloried in the nickname “Two-Gun Davis” — recommended markswoman Marion Semmelmeyer as the crack shot for a newsreel scene in 1933.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2023

"I think the critics are looking backwards to a gloried past, and fail to see the strategic picture vis a vis China and technology in a really disappointing way," he says.

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2023

I had taken off my head covering because of the heat and then stood in the open and gloried in the cool rain as it beaded on my head.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022

She gloried in the off-beat dryness of Michelle Obama’s humor, the confidence in her long-limbed carriage, and then she mourned when Michelle Obama was clamped, flattened, made to sound tepidly wholesome in interviews.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

As shooting began in fall 2016, the show was imagined as a portrait of a woman in power, which would open with a scene of Diane glorying in the inauguration of Hillary Clinton.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2022

So on Monday, when he should have been glorying in his victory, he apologised again.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 3, 2020

A video from Atlanta, in 2016, shows her glorying in one of her signature encores, “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands.”

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 3, 2019

Ed. note: I will be on vacation next week, glorying in the delights of the 35th state so we will have to leave the mailbag aside for a while.

From Fox News ● Jul. 26, 2019

I should be glorying in seeing Cardan like this.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black