Sentence examples for hefty reputation from inspiring English sources

America has lived up to its hefty reputation.

Author: Germaine Greer Date published: 1970 The Female Eunuch has a hefty reputation; in the flesh, it is surprisingly slight.

It's hard to think of another American chef who has outdone Gabrielle Hamilton in converting the humblest of stages into the heftiest of reputations.

The 27-year-old arrived from the NRL with a reputation as hefty as his nickname – the former Queensland and Australia prop is called the "Coal Train" – and he looked every inch a formidable unit here.

Peter Bradshaw, the Guardian Monty Python Live (mostly) isn't bad: it gives the crowd exactly what they want but relies pretty heavily on the fan love and makes a hefty withdrawal from the reputation bank.

Even as its hefty profits and elite reputation have made it the target of attack by populists on the left and right, the bank's scandals have never landed as hard in the public imagination as, say, Wells Fargo signing customers up for accounts without their consent, or Bank of America so aggressively pursuing foreclosure that it sent one family to the brink of death.

Big reputations and hefty egos, coupled with the pressure to perform and make split-second decisions, are bound to put squad members at odds.

Open daily 9am-11pm, but closed 4pm-6pm in winter Recommended by Pedro Subijana of Michelin 3-star Akelarre Hefty portions, low prices, glowing reputation: La Cuchara is not exactly glamorous, but it's a landmark.

As The Daily Telegraph of London wrote in its obituary of Mr. Sánchez Junco on Friday, "The magazine quickly earned a reputation for paying hefty fees for treacly interviews with the rich, royal or famous; its fixer and star interviewer, the Marquesa de Varela, a Uruguayan socialite, was said to travel the world laden with cash stuffed into designer suitcases to clinch her deals".

It sold some 500,000 copies, established Mr. Slater's reputation and earned him hefty publishers' advances.

October 27 2011 May 6 201212 In Theresa Rebeck's slick and satisfying comedy (expertly directed by Sam Gold, Jeff Goldblumm is Leonard, a writer and editor with a somewhat checkered reputation, who, for the hefty fee of five thousand dollars a head, is giving a group of young wannabe writers the benefit of his bile.