Sentence examples for merely famous for from inspiring English sources

No one who was merely "famous for being famous".

Another doctor, Jonathan Miller, recently attacked the English theatre's "obsession with celebrity" – dismissing Tennant as "the man from Doctor Who" and castigating producers for their attachment to the "merely famous".

But the definition of "public figure" is tightly drawn, to exclude the merely famous.

In this era of reality TV when one can become famous for merely being quirky or self-aggrandizing, I find such humility surprising, especially considering the body of work Grace Kelly left behind.

This was merely one contradiction in a city famous for them.

Celebrity gossip aficionados were gleeful because it was such just desserts — this overexposed celebrity, famous merely for being famous, fulfilling the prophecy that a marriage made for television can be no marriage at all.

While managers are famous for not lasting long, they are merely high-profile representatives of a wider British labour market, where the typical new job lasts 15 months.

Meanwhile, so much is unreasonable behaviour a rite of passage for the contemporary celebrity that post-modern slebs – those famous merely for being famous – fall over themselves to get a piece of the action.

Three out of four is a high proportion for any city, particularly one famous for its macho cinema, where the men are gangsters and kung fu masters and the women are merely pretty.

Yet by turning himself into a commodity he was able to be famous merely for being famous.

There was a much longer time when Strom Thurmond was famous merely for being old.