Sentence examples for achieving celebrity from inspiring English sources

In addition to achieving celebrity Irwin received a 1984 MacArthur Foundation prize attesting to his comic genius.

Achieving celebrity on the other side of the globe was Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, a blind Aboriginal singer-songwriter from Australia's Arnhem Land.

Neal Gabler, a cultural historian and author of the 1998 book "Life the Movie How Entertainment Conquered Realityy," said that to the Ramseys, public perceptions of their guilt or innocence might be less important than achieving celebrity and sympathy through a burst of publicity.

It doesn't matter whether a word is new: chad, for instance, had been around for ages before achieving celebrity with the messy 2000 election standoff in Florida; in contrast, a phrase like Saddam Hussein's "mother of all" locution was a new formulation that quickly caught on.

While achieving celebrity is no longer the out-of-reach goal one can only dream about, care of reality TV and the Internet, the stars on our list offer far more than a reality show crown or a must-see YouTube clip.

And forget achieving celebrity status through any kind of acting or writing skills, too.

Mr. Beall's screenplay had already achieved celebrity status in Hollywood.

Rojek wrote another book focusing strictly on one of the traditional types of celebrity: achieved celebrity.

One way to achieve celebrity is to exploit an unusual field.

"I am loath to gurm acquaintances who achieve celebrity," he said.

Mr. Goldstein, though not a household name, had achieved celebrity status as a nightclub D.J.