Sentences with phrase «earned widespread ridicule»
Unemployment had been rising steadily — it reached 6.8 percent just as the war ended, the highest level since 1986 — and the previous fall, Bush had earned widespread ridicule by going back on his famous «Read my lips: No new taxes!»
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Three years later, he earned widespread acclaim for his leading role in Patrice Leconte's Ridicule, in which he starred as an 18th century nobleman who learns to play a delicate and deadly game of wit at the court of Versailles.Born on Tahiti in 1958, Berling studied acting at a Parisian drama school located on la rue Blanche and made his stage debut in 1982.