And like his more illustrious colleagues, he was also a gifted composer: best known, naturally, for fiendishly difficult concertos.

Ten years later one woman asks the husband of a particularly illustrious colleague what his wife was doing.

The Principal and the Bursar stood waiting by the side of their illustrious academic colleague but they already knew what the doctor was going to say.

Yet on the international circuit it was his fate to be overshadowed by illustrious colleagues and partners.

He did not try and curl the ball, like most of his more illustrious colleagues in the art of scoring free-kicks.

Like some of your more illustrious colleagues (Ron Atkinson, Graham Taylor, etc.), you have a tendency to say a lot but to say nothing at the same time.

As Chloe sat back, the long-winded state representative transferred the podium to "my illustrious colleague in the New Hampshire state government," and Howard took the reins.

The invalid knew his illustrious colleague too well to follow him down any of those by-paths of knowledge in which he delighted to wander.

What is firm, though, is that while Hayman has traits in common with both of his illustrious colleagues he cannot carry the saddlebags of either as a painter.

Mr. Stern's workshop for young ensembles, with illustrious colleagues, was his fourth at Carnegie.