How To Use Notoriety In A Sentence
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The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed.
The Story of Mankind
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She gained notoriety when she joined student protestors in Millbank Tower, the home of CCHQ, and tweeted live from within the kettle.
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Nothing more could add to his notoriety except a deathbed conversion, and the Scottish bishop and historian Gilbert Burnet was to provide it.
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An ad on this channel buys you notoriety, recognition and helps you reach 10,000 customers a day!
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Such is the notoriety of the paintings, the auction at Gleneagles next month is expected to attract interest from a horde of international collectors who are expected to bid at least £30,000 for the pair.
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After that he disappeared again, displaced by a parade of Mafia bagmen and enforcers, clearly thrilled by the opportunity to refresh their faded notoriety.
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Virtually all those who have achieved prominence or notoriety have been exposed as mediocrities and rank scoundrels.
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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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The anarchist thrust is most effective in recovering those overtaken by fame (or notoriety) of a different kind.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The Black Cross of that book was the Golden Cross in Portobello Road, which tragically tarted itself up the week of publication, thus missing out on literary-tourist-trail notoriety.
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His notoriety first spread as the poacher of wild elephants for their precious tusks.
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The notoriety that he has enjoyed in his home city over the past decade appears to be spreading nationwide.
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As Isa 42: 2 described His unturbulent spirit towards His violent enemies (Mt 12: 14-16), and His utter freedom from love of notoriety, so Isa 42: 3, His tenderness in cherishing the first spark of grace in the penitent (Isa 40: 11). reed -- fragile: easily "shaken with the wind" (Mt 11: 7).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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We have turned these low-life neds into personalities who are set to give Glasgow yet another dose of unwanted notoriety.
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{63} They are not to get what we call the prizes of life, the social notoriety and position, but they are to have the leadership of their time and its remembrance when they are gone.
Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion
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And, more importantly, so did the notoriety.
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The court hopes that this film's quality will eventually overshadow its bizarre notoriety.
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And with the notoriety of Masterton, I thought it only fitting I should read one of his more heralded works this summer to see what all the hype is about.
Archive 2009-05-01
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With this distinction comes a notoriety and privilege that normally takes the ordinary filmmaker half a lifetime to establish.
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I was thinking about this short-lived notoriety as I walked the hills with their scattering of sheep when I became aware of another fact about these woolly creatures.
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That man was Dick Fuld, who later achieved notoriety as the captain of the investment bank as it went down with all hands, but even in the mid 1980s he was demonstrating a deftness of touch.
Big Bang's shockwaves left us with today's big bust
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Lahzars and calendars are very much working against such norms, and teratology (monster-hunting) is probably one of the few areas where a woman can achieve as much notoriety as a man (if she was not born with status already).
The WritingYA Weblog: Winter Blog Blast Tour, Day Two: D.M. Cornish
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Not only did he have to bat away the gold-diggers and clingers, he also had to deal with the women that were merely with him to earn notoriety and a reputation in the eyes of world's press.
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John is already a writer of some notoriety.
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And he'll be able to utilise his comedy notoriety.
The Sun
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Fame or notoriety could hardly be worse, she knew, than what had passed for her childhood and chaotic approach to adulthood.
The Sun
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But what those people fail to recognise is that winning a gold medal in athletics does not guarantee you notoriety and celebrity in the US.
Times, Sunday Times
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He achieved sudden notoriety when the details of his private life were revealed.
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His abrasive manner has won him an unenviable notoriety.
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His experiments have achieved notoriety in the world of science.
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Originally a prisoner, and one of the greatest scamps even among that most scampish body, he for a very long period endeavoured to acquire the enviable notoriety of a flash man; that is, in the terms of the immortal Shakspeare,
Ralph Rashleigh
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A passionate advocate for the avant-garde in both literature and film, B.S. Johnson gained notoriety for his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his idiosyncratic ways of putting them into practice.
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His daring escape from prison gained him a certain notoriety.
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And that is not taking into account the stigma and notoriety associated with divorcees.
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Think of this film-maker gaining the notoriety of Marilyn Manson, as the Christian Right gets up in arms about the "false prophet.
Another Mad Project
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When you do write criticism, are you looking for more notoriety, or to spread your opinions, or just to earn money, or is it something else?
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They've also gained notoriety as New York's number one source for releases of suspected endocrine, gastrointestinal, liver, cardiovascular, kidney, respiratory and reproductive toxicants as well as neurotoxins.
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Indian police traditionally rely on a lathi , a heavy stick, as an enforcement tool; Mr. Sharma earned notoriety for being quick to draw a gun.
Claims of Faked Shootouts Tarnish Police Across India
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Seems to be once you've made that transition on the music side, the next step is to parlay that notoriety into some kind of merchandising to further brand your identity as this pop, R&B or hip-hop artist.
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She achieved notoriety for her affair with the senator.
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In the afternoon all the San Francisco specials were full of the incident, and Hamar, seeing his name placarded for the first time, was so overcome that he spent the rest of the evening in the hotel deliberating how he could best turn his sudden notoriety to account.
The Sorcery Club
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Wren's season of notoriety rose mainly from vehement wowser pursuit of his illegal totalisator in Collingwood.
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His ruthless and fanatical belief in violence not only set him apart from the responsible leaders of the civil rights movement - it also marked him out for notoriety and a violent end.
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Our list includes interesting cases with big names involving celebrities, political heavies and anyone else of notoriety.
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The term gained notoriety in the 1960s during the Pan-Arabism era as part of an effort exploit ethnic divisions to unite Arabs against non-Arabs--namely Iranians and Israelis.
Jamal Abdi: The US Navy's Dangerous Name Game in the Persian Gulf
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The performance of this play in the following year greatly increased his notoriety.
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Of course, this is an additional patrimonial treasure that will increase the notoriety of Arles.
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And because of its sudden notoriety, the Hell-Fire Club had to move from the abbey at Medmenham to a hidden warren of Gothic catacombs Sir Francis created at his nearby estate, some 30 miles north-west of London.
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When you're infamous, it's hard to grapple with the difficulties of notoriety.
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His actions in the early '70s were motivated by his desire to achieve political notoriety by hitching his wagon to the anti-war zeitgeist.
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My creator's notoriety came not just from his genius but also from his prescience.
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The 'hippest' block in Houston also includes Barrack's headquarters, Sig's Lagoon, the Continental Club, the Big Top, Tacos a go-go, the Mink, and some other establishments of notoriety.
Netvouz - new bookmarks
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But where's the fun (and notoriety) in suing Richard Armitage?
Supreme Court declines to hear CIA leak case
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Sly fellows turn the notoriety acquired through public office into the real coin of the realm, plugola.
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It brought him wealth, fame and notoriety.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some of the fame was notoriety.
Smithsonian Mag
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He achieved notoriety as chief counsel to President Nixon in the Watergate break-in.
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He achieved/gained notoriety for murdering eleven women in the north of England.
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It is abysmal that a gossip writer should use spiky chit-chat from anonymous donors to make money and notoriety for herself.
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Within a year the resulting notoriety provoked the newly crowned James I to promulgate an Act that made bigamy a felony.
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Thomas Nast , whose antislavery political cartoons propelled him to notoriety in the 19th century, has ignited another uproar: whether his anti-Irish and -Catholic drawings should disqualify him from the New Jersey Hall of Fame.
Cartoonist Draws Ire of N.J. Irish
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If afflicted, it can indicate those who find infamy or notoriety because their misdeeds have caught the public's eye.
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The show looks at the literary fame and social notoriety of the Romantic poet during his life and his contemporary legacy.
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She achieved notoriety for her affair with the senator.
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He achieved/gained notoriety for murdering eleven women in the north of England.
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Their notoriety comes spilling out of every conversation without any direct prompting.
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It probably got its notoriety for its political sexiness rather than its literary daring.
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His crimes earned him considerable notoriety.
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The unregenerate Manet felt that the fame, or notoriety, of a Garibaldi was not enough.
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Stewart, the new quarterback from Colorado, has gained a lot of notoriety for his versatility.
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The writer Michael Kinsley, sardonically noting the extent to which press organizations that used to invite prominent government officials to be their guests at Washington's ritual spring press banquets now prize guests whose fame rests on their notoriety as popsies, lawbreakers and figures of general unsavoriness, sums up the mindless, annual post-banquet boast as: "We had Hitler at our table!
The Art Of The Snub
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Since then, the playwright has enjoyed a certain amount of notoriety, as much for his denunciations of the theatre establishment as for his work.
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Rugby World Cup 2011: hate figure Quade Cooper only finding positives of notoriety in New Zealand Quade Cooper says he is looking only at the positives after being called a "boofhead" by a Wallaby Test great amid the unabated Kiwi hysteria over his public enemy status at the World Cup.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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His online notoriety has stoked offline interest.
Times, Sunday Times
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While not quite up to the neologisitic prowess of a certain wordsmith of the Elizabethan Age, a noted U.S. statesperson has gotten a good deal of notoriety for her contribution to the English language.
Bill Chameides: On Words: 'Global Warming' Meets Astrology
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We may quarrel with the correlation of media notoriety and managerial excellence.
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The observations are throughout racily humorous, and those who have within a few years visited 'the Cradle of Art' cannot fail to recognize, as hit off with no sparing hand, more than one American notoriety.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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Fame or notoriety could hardly be worse, she knew, than what had passed for her childhood and chaotic approach to adulthood.
The Sun
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Offers of marriage arrived in the post along with party invitations from hostesses who were smitten with his blend of notoriety and camp.
Times, Sunday Times
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The train driver was regrettably 'coshed' during the heist but such was the notoriety of this literally
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The band was gaining notoriety and opening for national acts in their home state.
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I suspect that his action is more motivated by desire for celebrity, notoriety and financial reward than righting injustices.
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His daring escape from prison gained him a certain notoriety.
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The quintessential banned record: its notoriety took it to number one.
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And he rounded things off with a joke regarding the Scot's notoriety for stinginess and penny-pinching.
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Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be noticed for their vices than not be noticed at all. Harry S. Truman
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It's tragic that the lure of TV notoriety should deprive us of the contribution to racial integration one of our best historians could make.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have sought no following, engaged in no behaviors, holy or otherwise, that would bring me notoriety.
THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
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What is often forgotten, especially in the afterglow of success and the notoriety that comes with it, is the cost, both physical and emotional.
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Dawkins came up with it as an analogy to demonstrate the power of cumulative selection in his 1986 book "The Blind Watchmaker" It is odd that his biomorph programs haven't achieved the same notoriety.
The Weasel Thread
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His adventure brought him both fame and notoriety.
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The obese relative had earned notoriety for his aversion to exercise before death consumed him.
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i attended the presets last year and they are great performers. i haven't seen ladytron or the faint live, but i doubt the presets were a better draw than ladytron+the faint because of their popularity and notoriety.
BlogTO
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His adventure brought him both fame and notoriety.
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He achieved sudden notoriety when the details of his private life were revealed.
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John is already a writer of some notoriety.
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Gardiner subsequently gained further notoriety from robberies and duffing cattle around Yass and the gold-mining districts.
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He achieved notoriety as chief counsel to President Nixon in the Watergate break-in.
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It's true to say that there always have been and always will be phonies and charlatans claiming psychic powers either for profit or for notoriety.
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His manner is aped by those who find an easy path to notoriety in imitation; the belief he held near his heart is worn as a creed like a badge; the truth he promulgated is distorted in a room of mirrors, half of it is a truism, the other half a falsism.
Thomas Carlyle
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Considering both the cinematic and literary sources of inspiration that marked the weekend just past, it is reasonable to compare the aftermath of this greasy and sugary happenstance to a heroin comedown, or something of that notoriety.
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We are as great friends to horses, hackney – coach and otherwise, as the renowned Mr. Martin, of costermonger notoriety, and yet we never ride.
Sketches by Boz
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Our readers must not suppose that his proficiency is merely of an ordinary kind, or that his notoriety is another species of Barnumism.
Music and Some Highly Musical People
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The train driver was regrettably 'coshed' during the heist but such was the notoriety of this literally Grand Theft Train-o -- that when some seven years later the driver sadly passed on -- of leukemia (and not anything to do with the train heist) -- his family and the pompous British establishment still blamed the satanic Great Train Robbers for his death!
Martin Lewis: The Great Train Robbery Explained -- By Peter Cook
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unenviable notoriety
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His fear of notoriety and censure may have exercised a good check on his behaviour but it doesn't essentially change anything.
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Do we run the risk of some kind of infringement from the well-known Paul Simon song from which this phrase has such notoriety? —
Reader wants to know: Who's the woman in the Ikea TV ad?
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Their credibility is in shreds and they are flat broke, but they still have one very saleable asset - notoriety.
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His faith in Christ and ministerial calling eclipsed all his education, notoriety and accolades.
Has Anybody Here Seen My Old Friend Martin?
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It will give him further notoriety, another big payday and more nights at luxurious hotels than he cares to contemplate.
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You have a lot of people that come forward that want the fame and the infamy of the notoriety.
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The great white has a certain notoriety for being the only shark species to attack humans without apparent cause.
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The nameless gunslinger motif is taken to a very grizzly place as Jonah Hex is shown as a remorseless bounty hunter with a notoriety that instills fear and anger among the folks he meets.
Getting Graphic: Jonah Hex: Face Full of Violence by Justin Gray & Jimmy Palmiotti
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It's true to say that there always have been and always will be phonies and charlatans claiming psychic powers either for profit or for notoriety.
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With such notoriety, however, come both admirers and abhorrers.
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We've had 20 high-profile years of corruption, mismanagement, sleaze and notoriety.
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These distinctive traits, worn with careless hair, were so original, so intensely entertaining and notoriety-provoking in a camp which had never possessed the copyright of more than one shabby corroboree, that Wylo made many conquests.
My Tropic Isle
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His online notoriety has stoked offline interest.
Times, Sunday Times
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Following his appointment as governor of Portland in 1650, he was sent to Scotland and in July 1651 he attracted further notoriety when he was cashiered for wrongfully detaining the pay of his men.
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Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces.
