How To Use Fame In A Sentence
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It's worth taking chances when you're shooting at a chance of fame and wealth.
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But that is just a measure of his new-found fame.
The Sun
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Wilder grew up loving Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, but his great idol was famed director Ernst Lubitsch.
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But why would you want to leave all that fame, Mr. Presley?
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Bob Miller, the Kings' play-by-play announcer since 1973 and a Hockey Hall of Fame media honoree, is scheduled to undergo what he called a precautionary surgical procedure on
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I guess the term for that is "social networking," but I remain more interested in the social than the networking, and blogging under a pseudonym six or eight times a month in a personal essayish vein isn't exactly the fast lane to fame and influence.
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Desperate copywriters use the ‘in the tradition of’ device, piggybacking on another writer's fame.
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The magazine is famed for its merciless political lampoons.
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And even the reputations of major figures at times fluctuate, with periods of obscurity intermitting their fame.
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India has a cuisine as diverse as its contrasting climate and the Punjab is famed for its clay ovens and tandoori cooking.
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Plant shot to fame in the seventies as the lead singer of Led Zeppelin.
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His portraits often show his subjects brimming with youthful idealism and naivety; touchingly eager for fame, rather than sullied by it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking something else.
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It's the guerdon, the reward, the prize of fame that we're continually anticipating will burst out someday in a sudden blaze of glory.
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The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquirde it.
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It should be clear by now that Jackson has been royally twisted by the trifecta of supernova fame, seemingly unlimited cash, and a profound loneliness - none of which he asked for.
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Your new love has a claim to fame.
The Sun
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I forgot to mention when talking about Oscar that he had his 15 minutes of fame.
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Upset over being branded as a child labour employer, India's apparel export body AEPC has sought access to key documents of the US Labour Department which were used to "defame" the
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I think the more you do the more you encourage the myth of fame and stardom.
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There will be no more duplicity, crookedness, and desire for name, fame, and prestige.
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Fresh ideas, inventive combinations and a lively ambience inform this modern Scottish restaurant famed for giving traditional dishes a vibrant international infusion.
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The book catapulted the author into fame overnight.
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The place is justly famed for its antipasti and the final limoncello; you might want to skip straight from one to the other.
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Cleveland, had often mentioned him, without in any respect diminishing the insignificancy with which fame insinuated he had conducted himself in those amorous encounters: she nevertheless had the greatest curiosity to see a man, whose entire person, she thought, must be a moving trophy, and monument of the favours and freedoms of the fair sex.
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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He is the only person to be inducted to the respective halls of fame for rock musicians, country artists, and songwriters.
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Nor fame I slight, nor for her favours call; she come unlooked for, if she comes at all.
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India has a cuisine as diverse as its contrasting climate and the Punjab is famed for its clay ovens and tandoori cooking.
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The film tells anew the story of his rise to fame and power.
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Famed boating resorts like Marina Hemingway would ‘host’ all the American boaters, providing dockage, food and beverages.
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I'm sitting here chuckling at all the comments about how Clinton and Berger are being "defamed".
In New Letter, Clinton's Lawyers Demand ABC Yank Film
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This was the site of the Foucher Plantation, owned by Paul Foucher, son of a New Orleans mayor and son-in-law of Etienne de Bore, famed as the granulator of sugar from cane syrup.
Undefined
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Ildefonso Schuster, son of a stalwart Swiss-German officer in the Vatican's famed Swiss Guard, is accounted an Italian Cardinal because he was born in Rome.
Time Magazine on the Elevation of Ildefonso Schuster
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There is only film fame, he suggests.
Times, Sunday Times
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She's one of my best friends and she's helped me not become fazed by fame.
The Sun
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Nor fame I slight, nor for her favours call; she come unlooked for, if she comes at all.
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If this was a documentary about fame, it was also one about mental illness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Less talked about is the way fame can make virtually all aspects of your life faintly ludicrous.
Times, Sunday Times
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His portraits often show his subjects brimming with youthful idealism and naivety; touchingly eager for fame, rather than sullied by it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hrothgar's hall resounds with the laughter and songs of poets, who retell the famed history of the Danish tribe.
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Round Table is King Arthur's famed table in the Arthurian legend, around which he and his Knights congregate.
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Streisand won fame as a singer before she became an actress.
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His only claim to fame was his double-barrelled surname.
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What price fame and fortune?
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For example, acesulfame-K induces chromosomal aberrations; sucralose is associated with several effects in animals, is weakly mutagenic, and increases the glycosylated hemoglobin in diabetic patients.
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On the cover of the novel is a photo of an anorexic young Johnny with earring and guitar; inside is his portrait of the faltering and the fameless.
Lethem Heads West, Takes It Easy
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The famed financier plainly divulged that he was taking money out of the pockets of British taxpayers.
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'Fun' is a word much associated with him, yet for all the flamboyance and jocularity, you sense he is not into fame for a laugh.
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Rodney R. Land of Land Dairy in Mayo Florida sold a dairy cow for food with 0.2 parts per million (ppm) of sulfamethazine in her liver tissue and Michael D. Martin of Martin Feed Lot in Harrisburg, Illinois sold a beef heifer for food with a walloping 38.855 ppm of sulfamethazine in her liver as well as 0.1781 ppm of flunixin, say other letters.
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Shelley's fame had spread in the walls of the college.
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The speed of her rise to fame has been astonishingly rapid.
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The fruit, called sloe, can be made into a liqueur called sloe gin, of the "fizz" fame, but Ulrike discovered a distillery that makes it into a kind of sherry made of sloes.
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Derek Jarman's Caravaggio presents itself as a loose, poeticized biography of the famed Baroque painter Michelangelo de Caravaggio, but in fact Jarman appears to be using his subject as a gateway into ruminations on art, love, violence and religion.
Caravaggio
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As there be tides in the affairs of men which taken at the flood lead on to fortune, so there be waves which straddled at the proper time will bear a Halliwell on their niveous crest to the dizzy heights of fame, quicker'n the nictitation of a thomas-cat.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
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Page view page image: the famed hachured varieties of the Late Bonitians are both generally missing.
The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito :
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We shouldn't seek after comfort, personal fame , or gain.
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But I’ve never been one for the male bimbo look, especially when (as the folks at Defamer reported) said male bimbo bares his, ahem, "peen" (to quote my esteemed colleague Michael Slezak), while playing the didgeridoo.
The real reason Matthew McConaughey's 'Surfer, Dude' went under | EW.com
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He expanded this chain to 3 more eateries with his flagship palce called "Emeril's" in 1990 and by 1995 he had found a place for "Emeril's New Orleans Fish House" at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las vegas, the first ever to make an impression in the sin-city. 1999 saw the growth of his name, fame and food at Universal Studios in Orlando and a steakhouse in Vegas.
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He was born in Flint in east Michigan, a town famed as the site of General Motors, the automobile company.
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The Pro Football Hall of Fame member, now 73 years old, recalls the spartan Marion County coal camp of his youth, where his teachers Mrs. Hornyak and Mr. Wolfe made lasting impressions.
59 Top Stories, Sports and Weather
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It chiefly concerns one Alex-Li Tandem, who deals in fame, obtaining, verifying and selling autographs.
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For even in those most ungenial days he aspired to literary fame, and as the by-product of laborious years issued, at his own expense, the ‘Poems of a Journeyman Mason’.
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All year long, the Bruins were living with the fame and adulation of being defending national champions.
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Writing in the British journal New Scientist, the famed poet and historian Robert Graves said in 1972, "Technology is now warring openly against the crafts, and science covertly against poetry.
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Sharon Stone rocketed to fame in the film 'Basic Instinct'.
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Dan Neil/The Wall Street Journal Ferrari FF: Sort of cool, sort of not One of the more endearing acts of journalism I've seen was William Safire's occasional "On Language" mea culpa, a column in which the famed word maven would admit to errors and misjudgments—throwing himself on the pikes of the punctilious, as he might say.
A Showroom of Regrets: What I Got Wrong in 2011
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So with the first family treating him like royalty for the time being, "that might be equivalent to fame.
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At both venues he backed artists of worldwide fame and made a number of radio and television broadcasts with his trio.
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Vecchi composed some excellent church music, but his fame rests on his light madrigals and canzonettas, written in an eminently singable and attractive style.
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After a few rough starts, the label hits it big, bringing fame to Puffy and everyone he touches.
Filmstalker: P. Diddy replacement required
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He insisted on a high seat and a low-slung drum-kit so he could share in fame's glow.
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He shot into fame as one of the triumvirate during an All-India agitation against the partition of Bengal.
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The winner's work will be shown alongside artists in this cartoon hall of fame.
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The young musician rose quickly to fame.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. The rumble from a pair of motors interrupted the opening ceremony at the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
NASCAR opens Hall of Fame in Charlotte
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The sole saving grace of the film is Jemaine Clement (of Flight of the Conchords fame) as Ronald Chevalier, a pompous author of bad sci-fi novels who is ironically the only character to not reach unbearable levels of annoyingness.
This Week in DVD & Blu-ray: 2012, Where the Wild Things Are, Ponyo, and More | /Film
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He was not a fame - monger , but merely one of God's mad lovers.
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But that the reader may be able to judge whether the English or those who differ from them in opinion are in the right, here follows the history of the famed inoculation, which is mentioned with so much dread in France.
Letters on England
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He was famed for his meticulous preparation, producing his own racecard detailing the jockeys' colours and other key details.
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There was a benignancy, a sweetness of demeanor, which attracted them to him, and while his name may not be sounded in the trump of fame, yet the subtile power of his gentleness and goodness has permeated many lives, will shape many destinies, and will have a force in the history of the world greater than that which will be exerted by many who will succeed him here.
Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia) Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-Second Congress, First Session
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He was dominated by an insatiable drive for fame.
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That's often the price of fame and celebrity, and if you need proof, just ask Kieren Fallon.
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Mr Benjamin complained of Mr Russell of the 'Times' for holding him up to fame as a "gambler" -- a story which he understood Mr Russell had learnt from Mr Charles Sumner at Washington.
Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863
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For diners who simply cannot get enough of Penang's famed hawker delights, check out the nasi pattaya, char koay teow, teo chew mee sua and satay.
Surf while dining in style
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Nor fame I slight, nor for her favours call; she come unlooked for, if she comes at all.
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Zuberski, who preferred to be called Zuber, had had his hour of fame.
Maigret and the Reluctant Witness
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He rode Dino Chretien’s coat tails to a mediocre fame and now Dino is, like a month away from pissing his Depends and eating Pablum in a nursing home poor widdle warren is left without any coat tails to ride.
Warren Kinsella Quits Post « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
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The Kaisers were also tired of being conditioned to accept everyone else's values, and when their pursuit of fame turned on them and failed them, they were sick of that too.
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Fame and fortune brought him a jet-set lifestyle and entry to the celebrity world.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of 32 revolutionary leaders, 23 were described as egotistical, narcissistic, and searching for personal fame and glory Rejai, 1980.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership
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She alleged that the article defamed her both personally and in her office as a magistrate and pleaded 3 false innuendos.
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Palm-drenched Koh Samui, Thailand's third largest island, boasts the country's only LGBT diving organization. coordinates trips in the calm southern Gulf of Thailand around neighboring Koh Tao ( "Turtle Island") and north to famed Sail Rock, where schools of batfish and giant grouper patrol the 40-foot vertical passage through its granite core and plankton-feeding whale sharks are often sighted.
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burlesque hall of fame, dixie evans, exotic world, kitten deville, liz renay, michelle l'amour, new york burlesque festival
Inspiration and Execution: Tribute Numbers in Burlesque
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Portrait of Wang Xizhi , the great Jin calligrapher , famed for his semi - cursive writing.
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The real nub of the show is Madonna and our obsession with fame and celebrity.
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For the patient who is allergic to penicillins, the use of trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole is indicated.
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It was here that the Scottish steel baron, who made his fortune in America before turning philanthropist to the poor, threw his famed house parties for the great and the good.
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By contrast, the ranks of subjects whom Andy represented, like himself, occluded and determinedly not smiling, is equally revealing, as if to conjure not so much by passive aggression as by vaguely sexualized sullenness, even vacancy, the dominant mood of international fame in the 1970s and early to mid-1980s.
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In 1909 Rambert met Emile Jacques-Dalcroze, the famed inventor and teacher of eurhythmics, a system for using specific movements to teach rhythm.
Marie Rambert.
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In 2008, he inducted into the Canadian Petroleum Hall of Fame.
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This " cyber terrorism " is not only designed to slander and defame opponents, but also attacks their characters and threatens their properties and even family members.
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In France the alcoholic cordial crème de cassis, made in the vicinity of Dijon in Burgundy from locally grown blackcurrants, won worldwide fame.
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Hebrew music came achieved legendary fame as it was performed in the Temple of Jerusalem.
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Inca is famed for its old wine cellars converted into restaurants.
The Sun
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To pursue a certain kind of fame is to invite people into your life.
Times, Sunday Times
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The city is famed for its outdoor restaurants.
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The United States has always acted as a magnet for people seeking fame and fortune.
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Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
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The plan enhanced Chapman's fame in the football world generally, but it was too radical to win immediate acceptance.
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Alina Reyes shot to fame a few years ago with her extraordinary first novel.
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The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquirde it.
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The fame of this book, or concordance, as it was called, reached the ears of Charles I., who "intreated
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
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A powerful bloc of 57 Islamic states is again pushing for the UN to make it a criminal offense to criticise or 'defame' Islam.
The Economist: Correspondent's diary
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Fame portends trouble for men just as fattening does for pigs.
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Dear Mollie -- I was glad to know that bound with the fetters of Science, and depressed by thought, you were Struggling yet to ascend the rugged Steep -- where "Star eyed Science" and fame unfold their banners to every anxious aspirant, and under whose folds of magnitude and magnificence all alike are permitted to recumb, and recur those who have in vagrancy strayed "tracing Shadows" -- beware of
Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston,June 2, 1854
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On the surface, both movies sound similar: true-life character studies of women who have found a degree of fame through a career in the adult entertainment industry.
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She had danced in Viennese palaces, tangoed in Tashkent, and swayed to the music of Georgie Fame in Dublin.
Macarena Lithuania
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Yakovenko notes that Fedotov's main claim to fame, his coauthorship of the Russian media law, came 18 years ago and during that time, many in Russia have undergone "metamorphoses" straight out of Franz Kafka.
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
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The legendary professional wrestler is inducted into the Man Show Hall of Fame.
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* mais sur tout ` a noircir par des infames calomnies la sainte et salutaire Doctrine, dont nous faisons profession, nous sommes obliges, pour desabuser l'esprit de ceux qui pourraient avoir este preoccupes de ces sinistres impressions, de faire une brieve
The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
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On another note, why do you say that Microsoft has been "defamed" yet make no mention of Firefox?
Proof that the best of us can be taken: Microsoft Firefox Professional
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King of France under the name of Charles X; Spifame (1548-58) who became a Calvinist in 1559, and was afterwards accused of forgery and beheaded at Geneva in 1556; the polemist Sorbin de Ste-Foi
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
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Values that go beyond money and fame.
The Sun
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Two days later, I had hand-delivered to me a solicitor's letter making accusations against me that I had defamed the client.
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Voice, shawms, and dulcians will bring to life the rarely heard music of early Guatemalan manuscripts, found in Bloomington's own famed Lilly Library.
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Sobrij quoque sunt, quapropter et longo tempore viuunt: et si quis ab eorum moribus degenerat, proscribitur perpetuò sine mora, omnibus nulla posita differentia personarum, vnde et in iusto Dei iudicio, quòd naturalem exercere iustitiam contendunt, Elementa eis naturaliter obsequuntur, et rarò eos tangit tempestas, aut fames, pestilentia aut gladius.
The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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She gained international fame as a dancer.
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When asked, after they handed their Skyfame collection over to the new Imperial War Museum at Duxford in 1978, what remained mostly in his mind apart from the aircraft, Peter's reply was unhesitating.
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At his Ma Restaurant in Berlin's famed Hotel Adlon Kempinski, Mr. Raue has banished starch altogether -- no brot (bread), no nudeln (noodles), no kartoffeln (German potato wedges).
What's Next: Haute Cuisine
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Since Beckham apparently bought it for $145,000 and then, according to the dealer's claim, sunk another $50,000 in customization into the ride, it appears that his fame has added some collector's value to the 500 horsepower "cabrio.
PHOTOS: David Beckham's Porsche On EBay For $150,000 And Counting
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No; this was the incantation reserved for souls athirst for fame, of virtue emulous.
Memorabilia
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The pressure of fame can take a terrible toll.
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In the 16th Century, Raja Wadiyar defeated the viceroy of the Vijayanagar empire, wrested the famed golden throne from him and established the sovereignty of the Mysore kings with Srirangapatna as the capital.
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Consider, for example, two mural paintings in the round temple at Epidaurus, once an internationally famed health clinic.
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Like Nestor, who preaches about the fine fellows he remembered in his youth, Lepidus (although barely yet in his grand climacteric!) will depicture, with moving eloquence, the numerous precious volumes of far-famed collectors, which he has seen, like Macbeth's witches,
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
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The Spring Festival comes, SMS reports; New Year greetings, wish you smile; life is happy, good luck over; double wages, have both fame and wealth, opportunities around; health need; a text message, all is well.
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But I've never been one for the male bimbo look, especially when (as the folks at Defamer reported) said male bimbo bares his, ahem, "peen" (to quote my esteemed colleague Michael Slezak), while playing the didgeridoo.
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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There's a well-known tale of a pub in Dundee, famed for its stovies, which reluctantly capitulated to fashion by offering a low-calorie special, of stovies with crispbread.
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Tetracycline, doxycycline, or sulfamethoxazole taken on a daily basis may reduce the risk of plague.
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Ziggy 4 - yep, he's the fourth Ziggy-pup Meldrum has owned - made his fame by going completely berko when Dicky Knee appeared during the Molly's Melodrama segment.
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Of course, the name game is just one aspect of the melancholy fact expressed by the cliche ‘fame is fleeting.’
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Famous people succumb to their own fame.
Times, Sunday Times
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He's one of the famed cardiologists in the world, but he's not a surgeon.
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Agents surround promising youngsters and talk incessantly about fame and fortune.
Times, Sunday Times
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In nativities, this eclipse promises fame, prosperity, health and peace of mind.
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It has been enshrined in the holidaymakers' hall of fame since the 1971 inauguration of Walt Disney World in Orlando.
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The young musician rose quickly to fame.
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The grey, flinty slopes covered in the serried ranks of vineyards, gave way to the high pastures, the Alpine meadows, which nourished the famed cattle of Switzerland.
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With rampant racism throughout both the government and the military, McIlwain endured hate and abuse that most Americans couldn't conjure in a nightmare as he embarked on a personal journey of courage and determination, becoming one of the country's first black fighter pilots - one of the famed Tuskegee
Heroes or Villains?
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To thee, the fortune of the fatal field Inclining, unauspicious fame shall yield;
The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets
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The main selling point was the five unreleased songs recorded by a young New Jersey wannabe long before he scaled dizzying heights of fame.
The Sun
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After a short break in her career while she had a baby girl 'Nevis', Furtado returned to fame with the release of 'Loose' in 2006.
Worldwide music
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When his fame arrived – appearances on The Brains Trust, a BBC documentary, the film of Lord of the Flies at the Cannes film festival with a party on a boat, of all things, and of course a sudden relaxation of the customary nerviness about money – we weren't surprised at all.
Our parents resented us
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There are two things: wealth and fame.
Times, Sunday Times
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Robinson began his Hall of Fame career as an outfielder for the Reds.
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When her husband is murdered outside a house of male prostitution, she joins forces with Christopher Marlowe, famed play maker, her husband's former lover, and frequent spy in his own right, to uncover the plotting and counterplotting that endangers not only her family's solvency, but the security of England.
HH Com 241 (237)
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Cy Young won 21 fames, pitched 299 innings, and clocked a 1.26 era … when he was 41.
Matthew Yglesias » Baseball Fans, Perennially Losing Their Innocence
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The hottest Thai export since their famed curries, he will be insistent on proving that he is no one-year fluke, that he is as nerveless as he is graceful.
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He has aspirations to fame and greatness.
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However, if she wants to bump her fame indicant higher, then she needs to start networking.
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Nobody knows worst-dressed lists better than the famed Mr Blackwell, who since 1960 has issued barbed critiques of stars' outfits at the start of each new year.
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Fame is often simply a matter of being in the right place at the right time.
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All us Volunteers are really ashamed of Ashley ... she needs to sell her house in Williamson County and move to Hollyweird where she belongs ... why anyone would even listen to this moron who has done nothing but ride to fame on her mom and sister's coattails is beyond me.
Update: Sarah Palin Vs.
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If you're getting impatient for your 15 minutes of fame it's time to make your move.
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It caters for invalids as well as hedonists, its waters famed for their efficacy with eye and bladder problems, and the menu is a gastronome's delight.
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His velvety brown eyes had been his passport to fame.
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Such has been the growth of Danny's fame that nowadays he could even manage to test the untried waters by charging K30,000 for his show, charges that his peers can only dream of.
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She says the couple'were engulfed and then swept away by a wave of fame and fortune.
Times, Sunday Times
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The conversation arrested its discursive nature, to settle upon a political chief, the highest in fame and station of that party to which Mivers professed -- not to belong, he belonged to himself alone, but to appropinquate.
Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 04
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And his fame has nothing whatsoever to do with his prowess on the football field or in the political arena.
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Andrew, who has been dubbed the Welsh Maradona, shot to fame after videos of his keepy-up skills were posted on the internet.
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Shirlee and Thomas Jermin of Templeton Feed & Grain in Templeton, California are warned that they have not disclosed the antibiotic sulfamethazine in their Pig Starter & Grow
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And the '"steal Injun hoss!" iterated and reiterated by a dozen voices, and always with the most iracund emphasis, enabled Roland to form a proper conception of the sense in which his enemies held that offence, as well as of the great merits and wide-spread fame of his new ally, whose mere voice had thrown the red-men into such a ferment.
Nick of the Woods
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And now, of course, we come to that part he kept from telling in its entirety, preferring to risk a lie than defame his friend.
SACRAMENT
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Taking on Garvey's mantle, Marley turned increasingly to Africa as his fame grew, addressing apartheid with the same withering scorn as American artists like Stevie Wonder and Gil Scott Heron.
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The event featured cuisine, music and folk dances from the land famed for its golden beaches.
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And, yet, you will see your son's name defamed in the moment of his glory.
The Scarlet Feather
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I once got repeatedly flamed and sent virus-laden emails because I said I thought the concept of the Rock Hall of Fame was kind of blah.
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Kikunosuke, superbly coiffed, supremely, almost eerily, composed in interview, is famed as an uncommonly beguiling onnagata, a female impersonator.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hey, the guy's claim to fame is that he was the economic development brains behind Vera Katz -- what were you expecting?
Jack Bog's Blog: June 2009 Archives
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After this concert she was firmly on the road to fame and fortune.
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Robertson, meanwhile, is trying to kill the image of a bank famed for its stability and clean succession-planning being rocked by internecine warfare.
Surprise on the menu for HSBC's chief executive Michael Geoghegan
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There are other men who stand still higher on the "rolls of fame," whose Diacatholicons never vary, whatever be the name or nature of the disease!
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Fame like a river is narrowest at its source and broadest afar off.
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They may not end up in the Hall of Fame, but utility players often enjoy long careers because of their versatility.
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I could not but smile, at the same time that I was offended, to observe Sheridan in The Life of Swift [3], which he afterwards published, attempting, in the writhings of his resentment, to depreciate Johnson, by characterising him as 'A writer of gigantick fame in these days of little men; 'that very Johnson whom he once so highly admired and venerated.
Life Of Johnson
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September 28th, 2009 8: 42 pm ET this man needs to be held acountable for what he has done! why should a director be let off when a mere mortal like everyone else would pay the price? money and fame should not have any say in justice. if it does, then our system has gone to hell!
Evening Buzz: Fugitive Filmmaker Arrested, Fighting Back
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You're kinda lucky cuz you got more fame than you deserve.
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It starts with the line "City famed in song and story, shrined within the hearts of men/Objects of a people's glory, thou, the Nation's diadem.
Dreaming of taking the District by song
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The fickle old tentacles of fame have already had far-reaching effects.
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He has had a distinguished career in dramatics, having been the first post-war President of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, and Governor of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, and subsequently he achieved fame as Author, Playwright and Actor-Manager.
The British Council
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Is there not rather just cause for wonder that he did not speedily sink to the bottom, but that, on the contrary, he kept afloat, advanced to conspicuity and fame, and would, in all probability, have ultimately come with flying colours to a mooring in the port of honour and happiness, if Death had not unexpectedly arrested him in his progress.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3
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Robin (of CrossFit Regina fame) found another version, so I decided to bogart it.
"We live in an amazing, amazing world and it's wasted on the crappiest generation of spoiled idiots"
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Her fame had once been based on her beauty, but during these last twenty years she had become known, revered, and feared for the power of her mind: her ability to outwit, outplan, and outmaneuver the enemies of Troy.
Shield of Thunder
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Charlie senior, famed for his red nose and bowler hat, was known all over the world for his tricks, humour and ability to play countless musical instruments.
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Fame is a magnifying glass.
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Interestingly, the author initially gained fame/notoriety for popularizing the team play concept in blackjack, making quite a score, getting banned in some casinos …
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A vertically ovate leaf is the fame with an ob - verfely-ovate or obovate leaf; and a vertically cordate leaf is the fame with an obverfely cor - date or obcordate leaf. —
The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...
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The anarchist thrust is most effective in recovering those overtaken by fame (or notoriety) of a different kind.
The Times Literary Supplement
