Sentences with phrase «celebre of»

Kenneth Longergan's quasi-masterpiece spent years as an unfinished film before emerging as one of the critical causes celebre of the 21st century.

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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists released a statement last year condemning home births, saying, «Childbirth decisions should not be dictated or influenced by what's fashionable, trendy or the latest cause celebre.»

DADT became something of a cause celebre for the junior senator from New York, and she was in the forefront of the (eventually successful) push for its repeal late last year.

However the subject of the NHS is one that particularly rankles with most voters, especially because Labour for so many years made the NHS their cause celebre and after stating that they had a week to save the NHS they have spent ten years destroying the NHS.

But Scharf, a yoga teacher with the downtown Rama Lotus Centre, said the concept does not apply in this case, arguing the complaint that killed the program came instead from a «social justice warrior» with «fainting heart ideologies» in search of a cause celebre.

To add insult to injury, he finds himself having to fend off unwanted passes, and turns into something of a campus cause celebre after claiming to be the victim of a gay bashing by frat boys.

Although the prosecutor had convinced a jury to sentence the pair to death based on questionable circumstantial evidence, the nagging doubts about their guilt or innocence which had turned the case into something of a cause celebre have remained unresolved to this very day.

Even though Julian Assange has gone from notorious hacker to exiled cause celebre (hell, Lady Gaga of all people paid him a visit at the Ecuadorean embassy in London), his saga remains fascinating and important.

This film premiered at Sundance as a cause celebre as it was a film about transgender people, and was shot on a pair of smart - phones in one neighbourhood.

The fate of Lady Bird has become something of a Hollywood cause celebre, although it is still a few weeks before the film is released here.

Great expose on the conflation of other cause celebre on climate science, and very revealing about some of the more intimate issues people like Myhre are really having - this really reflects poorly on her.

Their latest cause celebre: New revelations in The Guardian that the director of the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Center, Phil Jones, may be in hot water over the accusations of scientific fraud having to do with Chinese weather station data.

The «hockey stick» may be a cause celebre among denialists, but it's only a secondary part of the mainstream case for global warming, which is based on the physics of the greenhouse effect and the observed warming of recent decades.

And when that problem came to the attention of the blogosphere, Cowgill because a virtual cause celebre.