(a.) Celebrated in fame or public report; renowned; mach talked of; distinguished in story; -- used in either a good or a bad sense, chiefly the former; often followed by for; as, famous for erudition, for eloquence, for military skill; a famous pirate.
Example Sentences:
(1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(2) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
(3) Cameron famously broke with the past, and highlighted his green credentials, by posing with huskies on a visit to Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic in 2006.
(4) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
(5) And Pippi Longstocking, her most famous character, comes really close to being the personified proof of that… So where did Pippi come from?
(6) It just seems a bit of a waste, I say, given that he's young and handsome and famous.
(7) BigDog Facebook Twitter Pinterest BigDog is a autonomous packhorse Funded by Darpa and the US army, BigDog is Boston Dynamics’ most famous robot, a large mule-like quadruped that walks around like a dog, self balancing and navigating a range of terrain.
(8) You’d be staggered by the number of dimwitted debutantes who stand for photos next to cakes iced with the famous double-C. You know how you wanted a Spider-Man cake when you were little, and your mum made you Spider-Man cake, and it was the happiest birthday of your life?
(9) Washington takes the role made famous by Edward Woodward in the 1980s US TV series that inspired the modern remake.
(10) As Justices Stewart and White famously said, "the only effective restraint upon executive policy and power in the areas of national defence and international affairs may lie in an enlightened citizenry – in an informed and critical public opinion which alone can here protect the values of democratic government".
(11) Items deemed inappropriate now extended to Soviet writings on sexuality from the previous decade, when abortion was legalised and Alexandra Kollontai, the most famous woman in the Bolshevik government, called for the destruction of the traditional family — a movement reversed under Stalin.
(12) He was in Cruise of the Gods with Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and David Walliams and, most famously, in the stage and screen version of The History Boys.
(13) In a country crisscrossed from sea to shining sea by some of the world’s longest and most famous roads, what could be more simple?
(14) In September 2007, Iran's former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad famously denied homosexuals existed in the Islamic republic.
(15) Born in a fashionable part of Manhattan on 1 January 1919, Salinger had a schooling that echoed his most famous creation, Holden Caulfield, with the writer asked to leave a New York prep school because of poor grades.
(16) At this time, the BPI was running its famous Home Taping Is Killing Music campaign, following concerns that cassettes would aid the infringement of copyright and a decline in album sales.
(17) Others will point out that this is a case of pot calling kettle black as Wolff is himself a famous peddler of tittle-tattle – the aggregator website that he cofounded, Newser, even has a section called "Gossip".
(18) That “social enterprise” is just a figleaf, which canny, profit-driven companies can manipulate (Emma Harrison, founder of A4e, famously used to call it a “social purpose company” before the Advertising Standards Authority, of all people, put a stop to it ).
(19) The Hard Rock Cafe has long been famous for its queue, but that was so odd it was a tourist attraction, something people pointed and laughed at.
(20) His mother is Denise Welch, late of Corrie and Loose Women, and his father his Tim Healy, who was briefly famous 30 years ago for his role in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
Personage
Definition:
(n.) Form, appearance, or belongings of a person; the external appearance, stature, figure, air, and the like, of a person.
(n.) Character assumed or represented.
(n.) A notable or distinguished person; a conspicious or peculiar character; as, an illustrious personage; a comely personage of stature tall.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 200th anniversary of the death of Christian Andreas Cothenius gave occasion to appreciate life and work of this personage of a physician.
(2) One is a statue of Queen Victoria, the other a family of abstract personages by Hepworth, taken from her larger work The Family of Man and placed here as a monument after her death.
(3) The pedigree provides a guide to related personages and a data base for analysis.
(4) All that is required of any foreign personage is to speed along the line of greeters, murmuring: "Jolly good show – carry on."
(5) She was only the eleventh woman to do so, and never expected it; a lack of expectation that was in itself a kind of artistic freedom, for if you don't think of yourself as an august personage, you don't have to behave yourself.
(6) Analysing the multiple factors influencing traffic safety, the results showed that the upper-limit-age of a train driver should not be more than 50 years old; The phenomenon "bathtub" between personage accident rate and age must be taken seriously.
(7) This part, proposes the analysis of the psychopathological types (cyclic psychosis of Lazare, the "typus melancholicus" of Véronique, the paranoia of madam Chanteau, the "crack" and masochism of Pauline) and the pathogenic-situations in the most narrow interaction ("in" and "out" of the personages).
(8) He was acquainted and treated some of the more eminent personages of his time and published some remarkable medical works as the Index Disocorides, Commentaries on Discorides and the Centuries of Medical Cures which outlived him and were many times edited all over Europe.
(9) Nowadays he tends to be placed in the deeper positions appropriate to a personage of such seniority.
(10) Hereby the development of these personages was briefly outlined.
(11) The form is based on a £10 note with, of course, the Queen presiding over the image – but not depicted as the stern regal personage of our real currency, but rather as if she were “your auntie”, says Perry.
(12) Alongside such uplifting stereotypes were ruder ones, comprising the well-known " Sardarji" (the Hindi colloquialism for the Sikh) jokes , portraying a dim but well-intentioned personage.
(13) The heredo-morphological pioneer research of Prof. Nelis on eight personages from five generations of the same family is unique.
(14) In the Russian medicinal and scientific organization of the early 18th century decisively promoted by Czar Peter I such personages as the physicians Johann Deodat Blumentrost and Laurentius Blumentrost have obtained important key positions.
(15) Yet even if the phone-hacking allegations were to spread to his employers the Sun, my bet is Jeremy wouldn't resign in disgust at the intrusion on his personage.
(16) Often these were costume pictures about historical personages, ranging from Lady Hamilton (1967) - he played the cuckolded Sir William Hamilton - to Lady Caroline Lamb (1972), with Mills as George Canning.
(17) On past form Mr Murdoch may at some stage offer "guarantees" of editorial independence to be overseen by distinguished personages.
(18) It was here that we first heard of "the unreliable narrator", a personage now familiar from any number of book reviews or broadcast literary discussions.
(19) From Cambridge no less a personage than Richard Evans , the Regius Professor of History, condemned Gove's attempt to restore "rote learning of the patriotic stocking-fillers so beloved of traditionalists".
(20) He's tasked with defending her royal personage and not wigging out when she emerges from a funeral pyre naked with baby dragons crawling over her shoulder.