Sentence examples for former fame from inspiring English sources

Every four years, those athletes are once again hot commodities, cashing in on their former fame.

The Circus City Festival Museum and the International Circus Hall of Fame commemorate Peru's former fame as one of the nation's foremost circus winter quarters.

One press piece from the time reveals an illustration of the trial's closing moments, as well as two vignettes contrasting the author's former fame with his new convict status.

To help us reclaim our former fame as an economic Jewel.

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But of all Wilder's films, perhaps the most revered by Hollywood itself was the 1950 dark tale of Hollywood Sunset Boulevardd," featuring Gloria Swanson as an aging silent-screen star whose fantasies of her former fame and beauty are aroused by a cynical young writer (William Holden).

(2) The wish of his character, former talkshow host Martin Sharp, is for his previous fame to be restored.

Bookstores are suddenly being deluged with memoirs and romans à clef by servants and office assistants trying to cash in on former employers' fame and follies.

In "The Divine Comedy," Dante, a contemporary of Giotto, wrote, "In painting, Cimabue thought to hold the field / Now Giotto is acclaimed by all / So that he has obscured the former's fame" -- an achievement also alluded to in this gorgeous, deceptively simple book.

However, due to the latter's jealousy over the former's fame, the Yasakani made a pact with the demon Orochi for more power.

Mr. Ford, a former model, courted fame with a cool, almost macho sense of self-assurance.