Sentence examples for for renown from inspiring English sources

Little for the sun I cared, Little for renown.

When I Get Famous ("an anthem for our times") is about a boy who can't get girls at school, so plays the piano for renown.

It is a measure of our times, and perhaps Mr. Assange's appetite for renown, that a technology designed to enable anonymity for whistle-blowers became an engine of celebrity.

Dr. Orville Gilbert Brim, a psychologist and author of the forthcoming book "The Fame Motive," said that if the desire for renown is strong, consciously or not, then the brief taste of glory will stoke an appetite for attention.

A close adaptation of the book was unthinkable in 1948, when the writer-director St. John L. Clowes filmed it for Renown (and was barely more so in 1971, when Robert Aldrich took another crack at it under the title "The Grissom Gang").

By not taking the Ring, Faramir rejects the desire for power and glory and the desire for renown which a defeat of Sauron would bring him.

It was during this private period when the Arizona Biltmore grew in renown for celebrity getaways.

So this festival of seven orchestras, chosen not for their renown but for the adventurousness of their proposed programs, concluded with, of all things, the Beethoven Fifth.

It just seems like you have to fight for everything across the board, even for artists of renown.

A CPA of renown for his integrity, he was admired and revered by all who knew him.

Though Mr. Freeman had not looked for it, renown, when it came, was a vindication.