Sentences with phrase «sort of fame»

A scientist like Mann, a mediocre fellow who'd never in a million years have achieved the sort of fame he currently enjoys (though it's begun to dwindle) were it not for the great Co2 blunder of the last 20th and early 21st century, will certainly never concede he was wrong.

It is uncertain exactly why this decade saw the pit bull suddenly rise to a new, less pleasant sort of fame, but many trace the entire trend to a single, ultra-sensationalistic Sports Illustrated cover article.

He admits that having that sort of fame — and being happy to be able to avoid it for a bit — still seems very odd.

In the last three weeks a curious sort of fame has descended upon a tall, dark - haired young man named Dick Ollen, and with it a nickname that could stick to him for life.

Not exact matches

Over the years, the acronym has become a sort - of mantra for the famed Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers venture capitalist, who more recently turned it into a book (Measure What Matters; Portfolio, $ 14) he describes as «my love letter to our future.»

Buffalo Wild Wings has started teasing the 30 - second spot with a series of videos featuring Hall of Fame NFL quarterback Brett Favre investigating what appears to be some sort of government conspiracy related to his all - time NFL record for interceptions.

BoJack is perhaps a little more clever than it is uproariously funny, but it is often very clever, and, moreover, well - tuned to the ludicrousness of the sort of low - level fame that surrounds BoJack.

Amy is not an easy watch, but in a culture that has elevated the idea of celebrity and has made fame into its own sort of idol, it's an essential one.

If you're really intetrested in this sort of thing though, Sir Robert Anderson (of Jack the Ripper fame) wrote a great book called «The Coming Prince» which exegetes Daniel 9.

In spite of the fact that Socrates studied with all diligence to acquire a knowledge of human nature and to understand himself, and in spite of the fame accorded him through the centuries as one who beyond all other men had an insight into the human heart, he has himself admitted that the reason for his shrinking from reflection upon the nature of such beings as Pegasus and the Gorgons was that he, the life - long student of human nature, had not yet been able to make up his mind whether he was a stranger monster than Typhon, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, partaking of something divine (Phaedrus, 229 E).

With 4 bananas not mashed to a complete mush, but still sort of chunky and not measuring the booze, this recipe is going down in the hall of banana bread fame.

It's definitely having its 15 minutes of fame, and, I'll be honest, sort of tastes like drinking a curry latte.

While that hasn't been sorted out just yet, Manfred has publicly stated that Rose will at least be allowed to participate in the 2015 All - Star Game festivities in Cincinnati, the city where Rose put together most of his Hall of Fame - caliber career.

There should be a term for the risks of becoming too good too fast, of surfacing into victory, fame, wealth and celebrity too rapidly, sort of an athletic version of the bends.

If there are any sort of hiccups with the opening — say, if the famed pedestrian bridge isn't completed on time — a dreadful, sub-replacement team would make the air of failure exponentially worse.

The Wie family is going through the first flush of global fame and has yet to experience the very real costs that attend that sort of recognition.

This creates a sort of awed detachment from the portraits — perhaps the truest reflection of society's attitude to fame.

Deep beneath an ash bed in an area of northwest China famed for its mud - filled «dinosaur death pits» that snared all sorts of prehistoric creatures, researchers have unearthed the oldest pterodactyl fossil ever discovered.

It looks like the sort of thing a Real Housewife would wear to the beach on St. Barths — or wherever nouveau riche ladies with aspirations of Bravo TV fame vacation — so I have no idea where I might wear it.

American movie audiences don't like movies about «these sorts of people»; we prefer it when the poverty line is something to be crossed, and then crossed back the other way, the way Will Smith did on the road to bootstraps fame and fortune in «The Pursuit of Happyness.»

Fame is the perfect Parker vehicle because it's an anthology of Parker's perception of inner - city woes, and as it appears at the end of the Seventies, the decade that was America's crucible of self - reflection, the sort of prison - wallet Passion Play of which Parker's most fond finds a more tolerable climate.

The series, created by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (of Sausage Party fame), is queer - inclusive, even if it's sort of a straight - bro's version of queer inclusivity.

Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) is a deep - sea explorer who documents his exploits in a series of off - the - cuff documentaries that have found him fame and, of late, the same sort of criticism that could conceivably be applied to The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

In the theater he collaborated with Billy Crystal on the Tony Award winning play «700 Sunday,» Martin Short's Broadway hit «Fame Becomes Me,» and he wrote the off - Broadway play «Bunny Bunny: Gilda Radner - A Sort of Romantic Comedy» which he adapted from his bestselling book.

Nick Kroll of The Kroll Show fame stars as Bill, a sort of schlubby, vaguely depressed guy who, at the beginning of the movie, is completing a marathon with his athletic brother, Robbie (Adam Scott Full Story

But they didn't do it in an American Pie sort of way, exploiting themselves for the sake of fame.

If «Solace» represents the sort of personal - revenue generating gigs that Mr. Farrell takes so as to free him up to work with more «artistically ambitious» directors such as Yorgos Lanthimos (of the dreaded «The Lobster» fame), I'd have to say his career is languishing in an unusual lose - lose proposition at the moment.

It looks like vintage Hitchcock at first, with the socialite Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) playing a practical joke of sorts on mysterious attorney Mitch (Rod Taylor) when she visits his home in Bodega Bay, but things soon turn strange when Melanie is attacked by a seagull, and then the children at Mitch's sister Cathy's birthday party (Cathy is played by Veronica Cartwright, of «Alien» and «L.A. Law» fame) are attacked as well.

Taylor Mali is sort of the poet laureate of teachers — he was a teacher for nine years and reached fame with his incredible piece «What Teachers Make.»

Host Carlos Lago takes the car for a spin around MotorTrend's famed figure eight course where the Z06 laid down the best performance numbers they've ever tested for a production car, coming sort of only the Porsche 918.

He teaches at a local college, with a claim to fame of being a lecturer at Cambridge, though he's nothing of the sort, and actually left the university as a postgraduate student under a dark, violent cloud.

You can put fame to all sorts of uses.

Writing, like music, has gone digital and that digital product is being given away in the millions to create traction towards a fame of sorts and is being streamed, not quite like Spotify et al, through Kindle Owners Lending Library, but podcasting and YouTube are pushing text more into performance re audiobooks, book trailers, and even as the music industry has been digitally driven back towards the single as its principal product, so Kindle Shorts, blogging, social media publishing and other developments continue to drive fiction back towards the heyday of shorter forms.

The Giants unveiled the team's Ring of Honor... sort of a team hall of fame that scrolls the names of Giants heroes around the upper façade of the stadium to remind the faithful of the team's history.

Even when inclement weather makes sunbathing less than ideal, the famed South West Coast Path offers all sorts of walks trails around Newquay from short beachside ambles to more strenuous cliff and coastal path rambles.

With all sorts of activities and attractions including jet skiing, go - karting, fine restaurants, numerous pubs and famed sunsets to soak in, you're sure to find what your looking for at Crystal Blue.

These playbills are sort of like a band's playlist for gigs, and offer bonuses in terms of fame, cash or Trickerion hSards when a performance uses them.

This is an odd sort of science simulation game where you take on the role of a historical scientist and try to build your fame and fortune through research and discovery.

Nine pilots from all over the galaxy come together to compete in deadly combat for fame and credits, with battles being broadcast over the StarBlood Network, sort of like an space version of Twisted Metal.

What Stella did nowhere in 1958 was make the sort of annihilating black pictures that brought him instant fame.

Last week Otto Sorts, the curmudgeon of Attorney at Work fame, raised several questions about his firm's focus on social media as part of a business development plan.

Which should be bronzed and put in some sort of smartphone hall of fame?

One does not have to look very far to find all sorts of claims and promises from real estate agents and brokers about how they, and only they, can offer agents the key to wealth and fame.