(1) Gassmann, whose late father, Vittorio , was a critically acclaimed star of Italian cinema in its heyday in the 1960s, tweeted over the weekend with the hashtag #Romasonoio (I am Rome), calling on the city’s residents to be an example of civility and clean up their own little corners of Rome with pride.
(2) He'd later carry this over into Netflix's House Of Cards but before that, TV had already begun to emulate this new, bleak, antiheroic maturity with a cycle of dark, longform, acclaimed dramas, commencing with The Sopranos and culminating in Breaking Bad .
(3) This House , his witty political drama set in the whips' office of 1970s Westminster, transferred from the National's Cottesloe theatre to the Olivier, following critical acclaim.
(4) Like many ambitious young writers, he sought both popular success and literary acclaim.
(5) There is effective use of a scuba-like neoprene fabric which is slickly practical and gives a bold, shell-like silhouette to hooded coats and to sweatshirts which seems to reference the balloon and cocoon shapes that Cristobal Balenciaga invented to great acclaim in the 1950s.
(6) Prior to BBC4 Hadlow was head of specialist factual at Channel 4, commissioning shows such as The 1940s House and acclaimed documentary The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off .
(7) Photograph: Getty So that was the grand import of the producer’s vision, realised on an unprecedented scale and to eventual rightful acclaim: despite Gagarin and the rest, Americans in particular (and then Australia, and Britain) became transfixed by all the unfolding tales and testimonies.
(8) The acclaimed leading man who overcame stomach cancer in the 1970s passed away at the Wellington hospital in London following a long illness.
(9) The Oscar-winning director, who made his National Theatre debut two years ago to much acclaim with Nick Dear's adaptation of Frankenstein , has told the Telegraph he won't be applying for the artistic director's position , which comes free in 2015.
(10) Allen announced a new comedy, Puppy Love, set in a dog training class, written by the creators of acclaimed Jo Brand sitcom Getting On.
(11) Meanwhile volumes two and three of The Gulag Archipelago appeared to less public acclaim than volume one, but confirmed the uniqueness and immensity of that vast enterprise.
(12) Best-known for creating Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros , Shigeru Miyamoto is an acclaimed games designer and general manager of Nintendo's entertainment analysis and development division.
(13) It is a credit to everyone who has worked on The Bill that the series will be signing out on a creative and editorial high with both critical and industry-wide acclaim and a loyal fan base who have supported the show throughout."
(14) But the album for which she is being rightly acclaimed, 50 Words for Snow, as well as cleverly weaving together some hauntingly beautiful melodies with a characteristically surrealist narrative, also perpetuates a widely held myth about the semantic capaciousness of the Inuit language.
(15) Last week, acclaimed Basque chefs Juan Mari Arzak and his daughter Elena, owners the famous Arzak restaurant in San Sebastián, opened Ametsa , their long awaited London outpost.
(16) Photograph: Popperfoto The director, Paul Andrew Williams, best known for the acclaimed L ondon to Brighton , is a refreshingly unpretentious and unflappable director, despite having had to conduct an orchestra of several languages and locations.
(17) Speaking through his biographer Joseph Farrell, Fo recalled his grandfather, an acclaimed storyteller, who would travel from village to village selling vegetables from a horse-drawn cart that the young Fo was allowed to drive.
(18) His approach was to view BBC2 as a channel of serendipity: a place where you might chance upon a nice surprise, such as the history series World War Two: Behind Closed Doors, Simon Schama's The American Future: A History, and, most recently, Norma Percy's acclaimed series Iran and the West.
(19) Plague Over England, about homophobia in the 1950s and the scandal that nearly destroyed John Gielgud, has been acclaimed by critics .
(20) Ejiofor recently won acclaim for his role in the film 12 Years A Slave.
Repute
Definition:
(v. t.) To hold in thought; to account; to estimate; to hold; to think; to reckon.
(n.) Character reputed or attributed; reputation, whether good or bad; established opinion; public estimate.
(n.) Specifically: Good character or reputation; credit or honor derived from common or public opinion; -- opposed to disrepute.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We have a good reputation, so this won't affect us at all.
(2) John Lewis’s marketing, advertising and reputation are all built on their promises of good customer services, and it is a large part of what still drives people to their stores despite cheaper online outlets.
(3) His senior role in the Popalzai tribe and his chairmanship since 2005 of Kandahar provincial council bolstered his reputation as an Asian version of a mafia don.
(4) Despite tthree resignations and his reputation as a tribal operator in the Blair-Brown wars, however, his belief in the party he joined on his 15th birthday is undimmed.
(5) "I'm not a career banker ... and given I was reputationally undamaged, I got a lot of calls [at that time]."
(6) Pichinde virus inoculation into strain 13 guinea pigs is a model with features reputed to be similar to hemorrhagic fever in humans.
(7) Burham's claim to be the continuity candidate, coupled with his past reputation as a Blairite, suggests a centrist leadership that would stay on course in terms of private sector involvement in public services, a crackdown on benefit claimants and a tougher stance on criminals.
(8) Mark Rasch, a cyber crime expert quoted by the FT, meanwhile said recent events have been “a serious and devastating attack to [Sony’s] reputation and image”, and his opinion is played out by a new YouGov poll into the public perception of Sony’s brand.
(9) At the same time the world's biggest carmaker is fighting to save its reputation as the home of some of the world's safest vehicles.
(10) The reputations of companies linked to fossil fuels are at immediate risk from a fast-growing divestment campaign, one of Europe’s biggest asset managers has warned.
(11) This could also have the added benefit of deterring aggressive tax planning by multinational corporations looking to avoid reputational risks.
(12) But it has a tainted reputation: the 2007 foot and mouth outbreak was traced to a leak from Pirbright’s drains.
(13) Big Red football parties had a reputation for being wildly drunk.
(14) Maybe there was a wish to go for these stronger story formulations, more extreme situations to try to get the energy up to comfortably blow the lid off.” Miller pointed out to Franzen that he has developed something of a reputation as a misanthrope.
(15) He will be asked to explain why he only once reputedly asked for assurances over Coulson, and why he infamously sent Brooks text messages ending in "LOL", which he believed meant lots of love.
(16) The Lib Dem MP Stephen Lloyd , asked Atos staff how they planned to improve their reputation.
(17) I was optimistic that I could leave behind my reputation as the nerdy one of my friends.
(18) 'Devastated' Peter Greste calls on Egypt's president to pardon trio Read more “It’s ironic that the conviction was for tarnishing Egypt’s reputation when ... this [case] is what’s tarnished Egypt’s image,” Clooney told BBC News.
(19) It’s especially not appropriate for a citizen seeking election to this house or selection to the ministry canvassing for money and support to seek to damage individuals’ reputation by commencing court actions for what could only be an improper purpose.” Palmer said the former treasurer, Joe Hockey, had been staying at the resort at the time and “walked past the table” where they were sitting and “merely sat down to have a coffee”.
(20) The disastrous launches of SimCity and Battlefield 4 , the confining and somewhat invasive nature of the publisher’s Origin digital gaming platform and the voraciously monetised smartphone version of Dungeon Keeper, have kicked further dents in its reputation.