Then you'll get the universities with lesser reputations – a second tier – and everyone will be going for them".
However, several fine pieces by those with lesser reputations nicely typify the way the period favored orderly compositions and clearly defined contours and tried to strike a balance between observation and idealism.
His latest movie, shot in Spain, is apparently quite good, but after Match Point and Scoop (not released in the UK), this is his third mediocre London movie in a row - a run that would have destroyed lesser reputations, and should probably be deleted from the records.
Such engagements have been more the rule than the exception for Mr. Valera, whose Cuban associations have, by his own account, constituted the lesser part of his reputation.
Writers like Jim Thompson, David Goodis, and Charles Willeford may have been published initially with the lackadaisical indifference given to lesser peers, but their reputations have since been restored and polished to high gloss, with Thompson and Goodis novels now part of the Library of America (overseen by O'Brien).
Yes, it comes to the table with a little iron cocotte of dark meat sautéed with mushrooms and shallots — a little fricassee that's good enough to make the reputation of a lesser restaurant.
Die Entführung enjoyed immediate and continuing success; it was quickly taken up by traveling and provincial companies as La finta giardiniera had been, to a lesser degree and carried Mozart's reputation widely around the German-speaking countries.
Cycling's reputation, and to a lesser degree T-Mobile's, in Germany was tarnished last week when T-Mobile rider Patrik Sinkewitz was found to have abnormal levels of testosterone in his blood and was suspended from the team.
It isn't worth risking our reputation these days on something lesser.
