(n.) A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.
(n.) A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; -- obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
(2) All former US presidents set up a library in their name to house their papers and honour their legacy.
(3) But the condition of edifices such as B30 and B38 - and all the other "legacy" structures built at Sellafield decades ago - suggest Britain might end up paying a heavy price for this new commitment to nuclear energy.
(4) Even so, the release of the first-half figures could help clear the way for the chancellor, George Osborne, to start selling off the taxpayer’s 79% stake in the bank, a legacy of the institution’s 2008 bailout.
(5) His greatest legacy, besides his three children, is the joy and happiness he offered to others, particularly to those fighting personal battles.
(6) The only explanation he can come up with is that Cameron is worried about his legacy.
(7) These tacos, the legacy of the city's many Lebanese immigrants, a variation of shawarma , the grilled marinated meat dish popular throughout the Middle East.
(8) But the genius of the High Line was to revive and repurpose a decaying piece of legacy infrastructure, and by doing so to revitalise several moribund districts of Manhattan, whereas the garden bridge would be new-build in an already vibrant part of London.
(9) It brought back Thatcher biographer Hugo Young's words for a front page portrait that offered criticism as well as praise for her legacy.
(10) Never camera-shy, he also leaves his legacy on celluloid too.
(11) Flats by the basketball arena, which will be the site of the first ‘legacy neighbourhood’, Chobham Manor.
(12) We still have at our disposal the rational interpretive skills that are the legacy of humanistic education, not as a sentimental piety enjoining us to return to traditional values or the classics but as the active practice of worldly secular rational discourse.
(13) "We are not leaving them an adequate legacy of homes.
(14) "EA's next CEO inherits a company beset by a broad range of legacy problems created not just by difficult retail market conditions but also by its own hand," says Nick Gibson an analyst at Games Investor Consulting Ltd. "It has been too eager to use major acquisitions – Jamdat, Playfish, Bioware, PopCap etc – to try to accelerate growth or gain early leadership positions in emerging markets, often overpaying by substantial amounts for companies that subsequently fail to deliver what EA expected they would."
(15) This is why in the end it won’t be the euro or the Ukrainian war that defines Merkel’s legacy.
(16) While building a structure that would enable us to realise our strategic vision was crucial, saying goodbye to close colleagues – some of whom had been with our legacy organisations for over a decade – was really hard.
(17) Commercialised … one of the new murals commissioned by the Legacy List, by Dutch collective Graphic Surgery.
(18) A key part of the legacy vision espoused by Lord Coe that helped to win the Games was the promise to use the 2012 Olympics to inspire more young people to play sport.
(19) The legacy of half a century of the voting rights struggle also hangs in the balance.
(20) He is currently writing Pan-Africanism: A History Facebook Twitter Pinterest Juliet Gardiner: ‘Britain’s greatly diminished power will be his legacy’ In 1848, the French politician Ledru Rollin is reputed to have said: “There go the people.
Legendary
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends; consisting of legends; like a legend; fabulous.
(n.) A book of legends; a tale or narrative.
(n.) One who relates legends.
Example Sentences:
(1) Richards was a feminist who, rather than scaring men, stung them with her wit, a technique she famously applied to President George Bush senior in what became a legendary quip in American politics.
(2) But among the football-faith community the legendary Anfield Road stadium is not considered a sacred site for nothing, and on this memorable night everyone felt what mighty magic can be summoned here.” Describing the match as “a classic in the illustrious history of these two clubs for years to come”, the commentator Daniel Theweleit also believed that the atmosphere at Anfield put Dortmund’s own famed fan culture into the shade: “Even those who have watched the club for centuries agreed that Dortmund has never achieved this kind of intensity.” Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung found satisfaction in seeing the German coach Jürgen Klopp exporting his magic touch across the Channel.
(3) Bungie has several staff who worked at the legendary animation studio and who brought with them the company’s approach to facilitating creation.
(4) Forman’s legendary London Cure smoked salmon is about to boost its credentials further when it will be awarded the highly prized European protected (PGI) status.
(5) • The 2013 budget deficit will be 4.5% of GDP • The Portuguese economy is expected to shrink by 1% in 2013 • Total austerity measures = 3.2% of GDP • Average income tax rate will rise to 11.8% • Total tax brackets will fall to 5, from 8 (pushing many people into higher brackets) • Public service job cuts • Reductions in pensions (totalling around €400m) 6.19pm BST SOROS: EURO CRISIS IS A NIGHTMARE Legendary fund manager George Soros has criticised eurozone leaders for creating a "nightmare" situation that is heading towards a depression, during an event in New York today.
(6) While Arsenal prepare to take a final bow at their legendary Highbury home after Saturday's match against Wigan Athletic, the club's startling new empire half a mile away, the Emirates Stadium, is an issue in tomorrow's local election.
(7) "To be invited to co-headline the 40th-anniversary celebration at the legendary Knebworth House is truly a mindfuck," Metallica's Lars Ulrich said in a press release.
(8) He developed a parallel career as a rock video director after mentioning in a meeting with record label and film company Warp that he loved the Arctic Monkeys, and ended up directing a string of videos for them (given the band's legendary reticence, the mind boggles at what the initial meeting was like) as well as Vampire Weekend , Kasabian and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs .
(9) I also never thought I’d see legendary goalkeeper Gabor Kiraly showing off his grey sweatpants at a major tournament.
(10) I've come to Austin, legendary birthplace of Spam (the canned as opposed to the digital version), to find out what this self-publishing revolution looks like in the flesh.
(11) Some of the discos – or “pipers” as they were locally known, in homage to Rome’s legendary Piper nightspot – were visibly influenced by Andy Warhol’s multimedia experiments at the Dom nightclub in Manhattan, home to the Exploding Plastic Inevitable events, where the Velvet Underground would play amid lightshows, dancers and projections of Warhol’s films.
(12) On Friday in St Petersburg, Florida, the legendary pro-wrestler, whose real name is Terry Bollea, delivered a $115m legal hit on the iconoclastic web publisher, a victory that signals a significant change in the public’s tolerance for media invasions of privacy – and that could bankrupt the site.
(13) Start with pasteis de bacalhau , Portugal’s legendary cod fritters.
(14) He became a member of the legendary Cambridge Apostles.
(15) It makes up part of our legendary picaresque national character, and our weak culture of solidarity."
(16) In real life, before Play, Moby was bumping around New York, getting DJ gigs in now legendary clubs like Mars and Nasa, as well as awful swingers’ nights (he says he would play anywhere).
(17) Warren Buffett, the legendary investor, moved up one spot to third and is one of the 42 Americans in the ranking.
(18) His nom de guerre was Sayyed Zul Fikar: Sayyed indicating a claimed descent from the prophet Muhammad; Zul Fikar being the name of the legendary forked sword of Imam Ali, the prophet’s cousin and one of the most revered figures in Shia Islam.
(19) Only the pioneering cardiac anomalies repaired by Gross (patent duct arteriosus, 1938), Blalock and Taussig (tetralogy of Fallot, 1944), and Crafoord and Nylin (coarctation, 1945) and the legendary aortic grafting operations of Oudot (occlusion, 1950) and Dubost and coworkers (aneurysm, 1951) are not a part of this article.
(20) • The death this week of the legendary folk singer and activist Pete Seeger has drawn tributes from all quarters, not least two of Labour's leftier parliamentarians, Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, who tabled an early day motion in tribute.