Sentence examples for inflated reputation from inspiring English sources

But their sense of mission did not lack for ambition, or even ego; their editors' note in the first issue said that the Review, if it ever took off, would not bother to write about books "trivial in their intentions or venal in their effects, except occasionally to reduce a temporarily inflated reputation or to call attention to a fraud".

In one of many insanely digressive passages, he foams at the mouth about Mr. Clapton's supposedly inflated reputation.

The art world is now so swollen with currency and the vanity of inflated reputation that it is taking on some of the less creditable aspects of showbiz.

This is not (much as those of the Daily Mail columnist persuasion might wish it to be) art whose badness is contingent upon its gayness, but rather art whose inflated reputation seems predicated more on the determination of – largely, if not uniformly – heterosexual critics to proclaim themselves at ease with how gay it is, than any inherent aesthetic virtue in the work itself.

The incident was one of several recounted by the agency's inspector general, H. David Kotz, in a report that concludes numerous "red flags" were missed by the agency from at least 1992, not just because of inexperience and incompetence, but because investigators failed to follow incriminating evidence in plain sight and were cowed by Mr. Madoff, who had an inflated reputation on Wall Street.

Through Peter Sanford, an observer and writer who is Mr. Vidal's contemporary, the book gets a glimpse of Marlon Brando in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (two of Peter's friends find the play "a total realignment of the sexes"), meets the divine Dawn Powell (who bristles at Hemingway's inflated reputation) and hears Paul Bowles's catty assessment of Leonard Bernstein.

What I do is champion, demystify and describe the composers, works and artists I admire, and, as appropriate, puncture inflated reputations.

Wood initially gained his reputation as a sharp-eyed and sharp-tongued reviewer of contemporary fiction, and on the evidence presented here he has lost none of his early zeal for pricking inflated reputations.

The other parent, though, is gouais blanc, a grape so déclassé that the French authorities have twice tried to ban it completely.In case you might think that Dr Meredith's sole concern is demolishing inflated reputations, the genetic fingerprinting of grapes in this way has some practical applications, too.

In 1954, in an article called "A Certain Tendency in French Cinema," François Truffaut, who would soon be joined by Godard, Chabrol, and other young critics hungry to direct, began a prolonged assault on the overstuffed style and inflated reputations of French directors of that era.

By David Denby In 1954, in an article called "A Certain Tendency in French Cinema," François Truffaut, who would soon be joined by Godard, Chabrol, and other young critics hungry to direct, began a prolonged assault on the overstuffed style and inflated reputations of French directors of that era.