Sentence examples for famous exception from inspiring English sources

The famous exception was Michelangelo's David, which was replaced long ago by a replica.

He called sources and interviewed Presidents, but, with one famous exception, he did not do much boots-on-the-ground or investigative reporting during his reign as anchor.

The most famous exception is the lower target for light trucks, now 20.7 miles a gallon, compared with 27.5 for passenger cars.

"Psychologically flawed" is a famous exception (Alastair Campbell or Anji Hunter?), though whoever it was won't have been told to say it by Tony Blair.

Dickens's strength of portraiture in "Tale," with one famous exception, was in his second tier of characters, drawn with his fabled vivifying eye for the grotesque.

(There's the famous exception of Pamela, Samuel Richardson's eighteenth-century housemaid, who undergoes a long and torturous seduction at the hands of her master, but she is one of the few who is fully at the center of a novel).

There are, of course, famous exceptions – men like Charlie Chaplin and Pablo Picasso, who fathered children as septuagenarians.

But these are famous exceptions to the tradition of the inaugural as an exercise in ghostwritten magniloquence.

There are famous exceptions — "Independence Day" is one — but the safe thinking is that only a handful of stars can open a movie worldwide.

There are famous exceptions, like the wall of water in Paley Park, on East 53rd Street, near Fifth Avenue, and a little gem off the lobby of Heron Tower, a slim office building at 70 East 55th Street, between Madison and Fifth Avenues.

And apart from some famous exceptions such as the RSC's famous Nicholas Nickleby, adapted by David Edgar, and Christopher Hampton's version of Dangerous Liaisons, I can't think of many novels that have worked on stage (although I have a feeling that I am about to be put right...)...