Sentences with phrase «too much fame»

When the superstar abstract expressionist Jackson «Jack the Dripper» Pollock shifted to using more recognisable figurative pictures in the early 1950s, many thought it constituted a cop - out lack of nerve, perhaps occasioned by too much fame and too much well - lubricated fun.

Too much fame, Stephenson's offensive ostracizing, Hibbert's weird regression, LeBron James being LeBron James, etc..

Not exact matches

Allan Weiss, of Case - Shiller fame, has an idea he says could solve a fundamental problem with today's housing market: homeowners pouring too much of their wealth into one asset.

And decades before the smartphone era, famed trader Jesse Livermore emphasized the importance of not buying and selling stocks too much.

I wonder if fame is more a construct of our celebrity - obsession, but God isn't the new celebrity to brand and make palatable for the masses — there is too much complexity and wildness for God; God won't obey the spreadsheets.

At this point, any measure of attention given to these clowns is too much, but famed hacking collective Anonymous — who has picked fights with Westboro in the past — apparently decided enough was enough, and used their considerable Internet savvy to leaked the personal information of the members of Westboro's congregation online for anyone to see, write, call or even pay a visit to.

I'll try not to fan out too much as I ask my question: I'm reading a book by pastor Jonathan Martin in which he discusses the fact that, in our current culture, fame and notoriety are treated as necessities, while obscurity is considered the kiss of death.

It really doesn't take much more than a little fame, and maybe a little bit of money, and you too can have your very own wine or spirit.

I don't know too much on Jorginho personally, although he seems to have been quite a late bloomer to fame at 24 years old.

He is too much driven by the fame he got in 2013 - 14 season with scoring all those goals.

Jason Day took juuuuust a bit too much club at the famed par - 3 17th, blasting a 5 - iron way over the green and almost across the entire 18th tee behind it.

I always thought Dorn was a good ballplayer but had started thinking too much about fame and notoriety, which wasn't all that far off from [my character] Arnie Becker, on L.A. Law.

I do nt see the board risking For all his fame, fan - love and his impressive gooningpedigree, the man is too much a gamble at this level.

While you can't put too much weight on this, it might make you feel a little more comfortable that your date values charity over fame.

Director Lenny Abrahamson can't even decide if Domhnall Gleeson's protagonist is a calculated jerk or a misguided fool, and though the movie has some important things to say in the end about fame, mental illness and fitting in, they come much too late to have the desired effect.

Andrew Kevin Walker (of Se7en fame) and David Self have teamed up to regale us with a tale so thoroughly Freudian that you'll ponder a little bit too much about that dream you had about cleaning out your mother's vase with a feather duster when your father came in and frightened you so much that you dropped it.

If you're looking for a more approachable, by - the - books adaptation of Sarah Walter's famed novel, you won't so much be leaving the theatre disappointed as you will be fleeing it half - way through, no doubt in tears, because as much as Park follows the book's often racy content, he throws in his own unusual twists along the way too.

Like many other deputies before him — remember Rudy Giuliani's famed police commissioner, William Bratton — too much adulation can become a problem.

The city's Waterfront Park is the perfect place to soak up some rays and — if the sun gets to be too much — wade through the famed Pineapple Fountain.

It's pretty cool to think that the game's designers Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick (of Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island fame) have avoided changing too much with the user interface when there must been some incentive to update it.

NEW YORK — Famed climate scientist and activist James Hansen has said it before, and he'll say it again: Two degrees of warming is too much.

Not too much news in residential or commercial solar technology this week, so this seems like a wonderful opportunity to share that the Guinness world record for distance traveled in a solar car looks vulnerable after an Ontario man rode the famed Dempster Highway all the way up to the Arctic Circle, using nothing more than the power of the sun.

No, not Domesday of Book fame: that was 923 years ago, and has rather too much to do with law to be the subject of a fillip.

Sadly Puzzle Fighter won't join their hall of fame due to being too much of a pay - to - win game and going against the core skill - based element of the older version.

I learned a little too much about the tawdry realities of the fame game.