Sentence examples for Passing fame from inspiring English sources
Those figures are what the players get a week for playing for fun, passing fame and "a few beers tonight".
Valeriya is not a novelty act, and is dismissive of the sort of passing fame offered by programmes such as Pop Idol.
There was death in the arms of his dresser, a lost unforgotten first love, a disapproving Methodist mother, a wife he never spoke to again after she scorned his art, and a tantalisingly unclear friendship with his stage partner, Ellen Terry, another of those rare names that still resound in a world of passing fame.
There might not be much passing fame in such accomplishments, but there is something greater: artistic immortality.
Jason Sudeikis, he of Saturday Night Live and Hall Pass fame, presents, while the Foo Fighters and Lupe Fiasco perform.
Shakespeare summer theater can be both traditional and innovative: the newly appointed artistic director in Norwalk, Joanna Settle, has drafted Stew, of "Passing Strange" fame, to create an original score for her site-specific "Midsummer Night's Dream," her first production for the company.
She points out, too, that she has often been called a "parasite" who exploits her culture "for money and what passes for fame".
Surveys in Chinese and German cities have found that about 30percentt of adults report regularly daydreaming about being famous, and more than 40percentt expect to enjoy some passing dose of fame — their "15 minutes," in Andy Warhol's famous phrase — at some point in life, according to data analyzed by Dr. Brim.
Fame passed the $20 million mark, I Can Do Bad All By Myself passed $50 million, and The Informant is just shy of $30 million on a mere $22 million investment (if there is justice, the film will pick up again in January when Matt Damon gets a well-deserved Oscar nomination).
Where the pursuit of fame passes as the pursuit of love, it makes perfect sense that a date is a show.
The tragic thing is not that Lohan's fame has passed or is likely to pass, but that it continues, waxing at the same rate her professional credibility wanes.
