Sentences with phrase «whose meteoric»

He was the archetypal bad boy of punk, whose meteoric rise to fame and notoriety culminated in early death.

Taken just as a list of actors, without considering the actual movies, this would be a pretty plausible roll - call for any year's Best Actor nominations: two prior winners (Crowe for «Gladiator» along with two other nominations, Firth for «The King's Speech» plus a nod for «A Single Man»); one two - time nominee who has bizarrely never won (Fiennes, nommed in support for «Schindler's List» and in the lead for «The English Patient»); a character actor of long - standing reputation and popularity (Turturro); and a rising star whose meteoric ascent to bankable leading man suggests his Oscar is only a matter of when, not if (Hardy).

Colt is the underdog whose meteoric and highly - unlikely rise through the ranks of his chosen sport, culminating predictably in a showdown with an old, under - written foe, has been seen on screen a squillion times before.

However, he drew his greatest inspiration from Frank Sinatra, whose meteoric rise to pop stardom inspired the younger man to take singing lessons.

According to our sources, Maj Gen Sampson Adeti is a distinguished professional and an academic power in the GAF whose meteoric rise is the envy of some of his colleagues.

Also, any mention of pie trends necessitates a mention of Lauren of the instagram Loko Kitchen, whose meteoric rise is owed solely to her crazy beautiful, ridiculously perfect pies.

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When You're Strange (R for sexuality, nudity, profanity and drug references) Johnny Depp narrates this rockumentary recounting the meteoric rise and just as fast fall of The Doors, a talented quartet whose premature demise was hastened by the untimely death of its charismatic lead singer, Jim Morrison.

Cain was once a singer, with aspirations to opera, and here, one of his novels became a movie vehicle for Mario Lanza — a superb natural tenor, whose own meteoric career and untimely death might make a good film noir.

(In French, English and Russian with subtitles) Jean - Michel Basquait: The Radiant Child (Unrated) «Better to Flameout Than to Fade Away» bio-pic recounting the meteoric rise and untimely demise of Basquait (1960 - 1988), the Brooklyn - born, black graffiti scofflawt - turned - legit fine art phenom whose promise future was consumed by the heroin overdose which claimed his life at the age of 27.

Hillsong: Let Hope Rise (PG for mature themes) Faith - based documentary chronicling the meteoric rise of Hillsong United, the Christian rock band from Australia whose hymns are sung in churches every Sunday by over 50 million people around the world.

you have by now heard about the meteoric rise of indie author Colleen Hoover, whose latest novel Hopeless is selling faster than tequila in Tijuana, breaking records all over the place, and has occupied the # 1 spot on Amazon most of the time since Christmas.

Thompson's meteoric career started in Provincetown where he gravitated to the painter Gandy Brodie, whose rough totemic figures inspired him.

Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, whose native cryptocurrency XRP has seen meteoric growth over the past couple months, also commented on the troubles of assessing the token industry.