Sentence examples for especially famous for from inspiring English sources

He is especially famous for blending Daoist, Confucian, and Buddhist methods of mental cultivation.

Born in Sheffield, he is (perhaps inevitably) especially famous for his cutlery design and this site does his beautiful ranges proud.

Ambrogio Lorenzetti is especially famous for an enormous landscape, illustrating the effect of good government, painted in the Palazzo Pubblico Siena (1338 39).

Libanius's works include more than 50 orations of various types, of which the first is especially famous for its autobiographical character.

This film reminds us, however, that Pompeii was not merely a living city, but one especially famous for its glorious flora; Pliny the Younger recorded 41 varieties of pears alone.

October 27, 1869 Huntsville, Alabama May 10 , 1948New York City, New York Viola Allen, in full Viola Emily Allen (born October 27, 1869, Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. died May 10 , 1948 New York, New York) American actress, especially famous for her Shakespearean roles and for her roles in Frances Eliza Burnett's Little Lord Fauntleroy and Bronson Howard's Shenandoah, both extremely popular plays.

Later in his career, he made an especially famous casting choice for the 1991 film "Thelma and Louise": He suggested Brad Pitt for the role of J.D., a thieving drifter who charms star Geena Davis.

I only cared about the celebrities the way all New Yorkers care about celebrities: I ignored them or, if they were especially famous, congratulated myself for ignoring them.

Fukasaku is especially famous in Japan for his classic 1973 yakuza film, "Battles Without Honor and Humanity," which is based on the prison memoirs of an actual yakuza killer.

The end of the 1930s saw such especially famous projects as the masterplans for Algiers (1938 42) and Buenos Aires (1938); the building for the Ministry of Education and Health in Rio de Janeiro (1936); and an infinitely expandable museum for Philippeville (1938), in French North Africa.

Some are especially famous: the Sūryāṣṭaka ("Eight Strophes for the Sun"), by Mayūra; the collections attributed to the philosopher Śaṅkara, the Saundaryalaharī ("The Wavy River of the Beautiful Sky"); and the Kṛṣṇakarṇāmṛta ("The Elixir of Hearing of Krishna"), by Bilvamaṅgala, among others.