Sentence examples for desiring fame from inspiring English sources

Desiring fame in the present may spoil the talents you have.

Its lyrics satirise the yuppie culture of the 1980s, materialism and consumerism and are the result of Gabriel's self-examination, after he considered whether he may have desired fame after all.

ANY Western politician, judge or religious leader desiring instant fame or a dose of controversy has an easy option.

I had no ambition to be a television presenter and certainly did not desire fame.

Cruz is in top form and it's good to see Angela Molina, of That Obscure ­Object of Desire fame, in a small, but vivid part as her mother.

But then she unleashes her inner Roxie Hart from "Chicago" and sings about her true desire: fame.

Perhaps, like Diogenes, by abnegating what so many of us desire (fame, riches, recognition, social acceptance), Joaquin is prompting us to examine our values.

In the words of the aristocrat and writer Mary Wortley-Montagu, women desired "that Fame which Men have engross'd to themselves and will not suffer us to share".

But what she really desires is fame, money, attention.

Johnson admitted to John Hawkins that "my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of".

She had no particular desire for fame, just as she had no particular desire to be identified as an experimental writer.