Sentence examples for a great stir from inspiring English sources

Colette Khoury's Ayyam Ma'ah (Days With Him) caused a great stir when it came out in 1959.

Yakī būd yakī nabūd caused a great stir, not only because of its innovative prose style, modern diction, and its use of colloquial Persian but also for its satiric, outspoken criticism of society which aroused the anger of conservative Iranians.

This pioneering attack on the cultural revolution and its associated mythology did not initially create a great stir, even in France, where the cult of Mao had reached rare heights.

When the maverick British architectural historian Reyner Banham was sent to Los Angeles on a magazine assignment in the late nineteen-sixties, his assessment of, and infatuation with, the city caused a great stir among members of the architectural élite back in England.

It caused a great stir among poets of a slightly older generation (Lowell, Jarrell, Bishop), as their letters demonstrate, and was a key book for a subsequent generation of aspiring poets, as my memories of creative writing classes taken in the 70's attest.

Never mentioned though is the chapter that succeeds it in which Levin's brother finally publishes his book An Essay in the Survey of The Principles and Forms of Statehood in Europe and Russia, fully expecting the book "to make a serious impression in society and cause, if not a revolution in scholarship, at least a great stir in the scholarly world".

Leftover turkey makes a great stir-fry and it is even better when jazzed up with fresh or dried cranberries.

After 12 days of the Salt Lake Olympics, judging irregularities in figure skating have caused a greater stir than security threats.

This time around, Druid's arrival on Inishmaan caused a greater stir than most of its past trips (though its previous one, in 2005, was a six-play Synge cycle).

Several "scandals" have emerged involving figures close to the president, although thus far they have created a greater stir in the Washington press corps than among the public at large.

Viewing the Gladiator was greatly admired; but his next painting, A Philosopher giving that Lecture on the Orrery, in which a Lamp is put in place of the Sun (normally known by the shortened form A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery or just The Orrery), caused a greater stir, as it replaced the Classical subject at the centre of the scene with one of a scientific nature.