Sentences with phrase «height of her fame»

When Karl Barth was at the height of his fame and productivity in the years between 1930 and 1960 and making neo «orthodoxy the dominant force in Protestant thought, another trend in theology was competing for the attention of the public.

The popstar - whose boy band at the height of their fame in the nineties, sold 25 million records worldwide - said his rebellious character was enhanced when he joined the group in 1993.

David Blunkett... once told me that even at the height of his fame as Home Secretary, people would approach him and say, «Seen you on telly, what do you do?»

Denim on denim reached it's height of fame in the early 2000's when Britney and Justin wore the iconic matching denim look to the 2001 American Music Awards.

Elizabeth Taylor and David Webb were both at the height of their fame when the actress acquired the bracelet from the jeweler.

Ridley Scott was a highly - rated director and leading man Russell Crowe was at the height of his fame and screen popularity.

Jessica Lange stunningly portrays Patsy Cline, the velvet - voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame.

At the height of her fame, Maria is asked to take part in a revival of the movie that shot her to stardom; not in her original role as ingenue, however, but as the story's duped matron.

In 1948, Ingrid Bergman, at the height of her fame — she was between Hitchcock pictures at the time, Notorious and Under Capricorn — wrote a fan letter to Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini, expressing her admiration for Open City and Paisan and offering him her services as an actress.

The director calls on two of his The Help alumni for smaller but equally important roles: Viola Davis plays the battered mother who abandons James when he was a boy but who pops back into his life during the height of his fame, and Octavia Spencer plays the auntie who steps in as a guardian when the boy's father (Lenny James) enlists in the military.

Nonetheless, director George Tillman, Jr. has crafted a very absorbing, cradle to the grave bio-pic which does vividly recount exactly how a latchkey kid being raised by an immigrant single - mom (Angela Bassett) in the slums of Bed - Stuy could have overcome the odds only to be slain at the height of his fame in a seemingly senseless drive - by shooting in Hollywood.

It's 1980 and Borg (Sverrir Gudnason) is at the height of his fame.

He reached the height of his fame in the late»80s and early»90s, gaining notoriety as a grossly misogynistic standup comedian.

At 60, the great auteur was at the height of his fame and yet was unable to convince Paramount to finance his next film, «Psycho,» a story based on Robert Bloch's lurid novel about a serial killer.

At the height of his fame, his controversial portraits of naked, often pre-teenage girls and young women were both celebrated and reviled by the mid-70s cognoscenti.

If you remember one thing about teacher licensing, remember this: Albert Einstein, at the height of his fame and intellectual prowess, could not have walked in off the street from out - of - state or anywhere else in the universe, and gotten a secondary single subject preliminary license to teach physics.

At forty - three, the man who wrote «Nocturnes» and «Pasodoble for Don Quixote» was at the height of his fame, and all the Spanish illustrated magazines published a photograph of him, arm in arm with his beautiful wife aboard the Cap Polonio, an ocean liner of the Hamburg Südamerikanische company.

We follow each through outrageous accusation and unrivaled success, through faith and perseverance and dogged self - recrimination, whether in the dock awaiting complete disgrace or at the height of fame while desperately in love with a woman not his wife, and gradually realize that George is half - Indian and that Arthur becomes the creator of the world's most famous detective.

If the third book surpasses the first two then Iles will be elevated to the highest heights of famed storytellers.»

Neruda, the nobel - prize winning poet who, at the height of his fame, was forced to flee Chile due to his leftist political leanings, is revered hroughout the country both for his timeless poetry as well as for his political accomplishments.

At the height of his fame, Still withdrew from the commercial art scene to focus on pieces such as «1957 - J No. 2 (PH - 401)»

After opening with an exhibition of an artist at the height of his fame, Georges Mathieu, subsequent exhibitions were devoted to work by Frank Auerbach, R.B. Kitaj and Joe Tilson, as well as Kenneth Armitage, Lynn Chadwick, Ben Nicholson, Victor Pasmore, John Piper, Georges Vantogerloo and others.

When he was at the height of his fame, the art world began to turn toward new attraction, Pop Art and the work of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and James Rosenquist, slowly forgetting abstract expressionists.

In 1973, at the height of her fame, she announced her retirement from making films.

The first, of the artist in his 30s, comes from the Frick Collection in New York and joins the second, finished around 20 years later when Murillo was at the height of his fame.

Craxton never achieved the same heights of fame as his one - time friend and later enemy, Lucian Freud, with whom he shared a house and a delight in painting dead animals (sources tell of a dead monkey, stored in their oven when Kenneth Clark came to tea).

Davis died suddenly from a stroke on June 24, 1964, at the height of his fame.

Her career is unusual as she left the New York art - world at the height of her fame in the early 1970s, eventually settling in rural Pennsylvania in the mid 1980s, where she found an ideal solitude in which to pursue her experimental work.

It reappears in several paintings by Dalí, most spectacularly in Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach, painted at the height of his fame and also in the Atheneum's collection.

The American painter Cy Twombly died last year at the height of his fame.

This show presents Frank Stella in 1966, at the height of his fame and just before he pushed his clarity into fatal bombast.

In 1972, at the height of his fame, Lukin did the unthinkable.

Warhol was at the height of his fame when he first exhibited his self - portrait at the Expo 67 world fair in Montreal, Canada.

Brown's best - loved work, Set and Reset (1983)-- for which Rauschenberg provided the sets and costumes, and Laurie Anderson the score — brought new heights of fame.

Although the photograph achieved mythic status, and some of its subjects scaled the heights of fame, Ms. Sterne retreated to the margins of art history.

In 1951, at the height of his fame, Pollock abruptly ceased using his action painting method.

At the height of his fame, he spent his days painting powerful abstractions and intense, disturbing pictures of the female figure — and his nights living on the edge, drinking, womanizing, and talking at the Cedar bar with such friends as Franz Kline and Frank O'Hara.

In 1994 on the height of his fame, unfortunately, the artist underwent an operation for cancer and shortly after died; he is buried in Glenartney in Perthshire.

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Sir Patrick told The Yorkshire Post that the idea of buying the property came to him at the height of his fame as he was driving down a hectic LA motorway.

Not exact matches

I've seen enormous prizefights in front of the loudest crowds in America, and as a little boy I saw Michael Jackson live at the height of his Thriller fame, but I have never in my life heard a crowd muster anything comparable to the intensity of the roaring adulation Pamplona's crowd offered to this matador.

He's a hall of fame level talent and will be the star that takes this team new heights.

«It is indeed very sad that instead of addressing these health and sundry issues, APC leaders are frittering away our commonwealth on medical tourism in Europe while our hospitals had, in the last three years, sunk from the famed height attained under the PDP to mere consulting centers.

Mahatma Gandhi, at the height of his power and his fame, stands by the side of a lake with his wife of many years.

Staying back is the gang's odd pal Barry (Tom Green), a seventh year student who serves as infrequent storyteller on an uninformative campus tour, a design that doesn't really work but does maximize Green's involvement at the height of his brief, MTV - fueled fame.

During her early acting days and the height of his New Kids of the Block fame — 1989 to be exact — Halle Berry and Danny Wood were a thing.

One of the most successful British films in the United States, the film focused on an impoverished young ballerina (Moira Shearer) who becomes an understudy with a famed dance troupe, only to reach new heights when she dons a pair of magical red shoes.

Made at the height of the comedic giant's fame, «The Mask» sees Carrey's Stanley Ipkiss come into the possession of a magical mask that transforms him into the embodiment of a Tex Avery cartoon.

But director Michael Showalter (of Wet Hot American Summer fame) assembles and steers a charming ensemble to witty effect in their own right, but none with the heights of Field's lovelorn sweetheart.

, Binoche has been honoured for a succession of very fine and sensitive performances that have earned her the main prizes at the Berlin, Venice, and Cannes film festivals, ascending to the heights of Oscar fame when she won Best Supporting Actress for her work in The English Patient.