Sentence examples for a notable affair from inspiring English sources

Happy's funeral was a notable affair; he was back in the news once again and what you thought about him depended on which story of his life you leaned towards believing.

(In his journals, the essayist Edmund Wilson used pseudonyms for his lovers, though historians have still been able to uncover a few: He lost his virginity to the poet Edna St . Vincent Millay was one of Anaïs Nin's conquests, and married the novelist Mary McCarthy, who herself had a notable affair with the art critic Clement Greenberg).

2004: John Kerry"You might have thought that, three years after a devastating terrorist attack on American soil, a period which has featured two wars, radical political and economic legislation, and an adjustment to one of the biggest stockmarket crashes in history, the campaign for the presidency would be an especially elevated and notable affair.

YOU might have thought that, three years after a devastating terrorist attack on American soil, a period which has featured two wars, radical political and economic legislation, and an adjustment to one of the biggest stockmarket crashes in history, the campaign for the presidency would be an especially elevated and notable affair.

He married three times, and in one notable affair, fictionalized in the 1981 movie "Reds," he fell for the writer Louise Bryant, who was already involved with the journalist John Reed.

"I knew that if I dabbled with Philipa that night," he reflects during an unforeseen demi-snog with an unhappy neighbour, "I could be entering the pantheon of historical and notable affairs".

Suppers at our home were notable affairs.

The Cleveland Orchestra's regular visits to Carnegie Hall have long been highly anticipated, well-attended affairs, but a notable number of seats remained empty on Thursday night.

A notable exception was Demetrius Cydones who, like Michael Psellus, managed affairs of state for a number of emperors for close to 50 years.

The affair made him better known in England and brought him into contact with a notable liberal family, the Ashursts.

With a notable exception.