Sentence examples for modicum of fame from inspiring English sources

That study, about how obesity can be contagious, has already won the authors a modicum of fame.

As the leader of the bands Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker, Mr. Lowery had a modicum of fame in the 1980s and '90s.

But by the postwar years of the mid-1990s, Mr. dos Santos was not only earning a decent wage, but also accruing a modicum of fame.

Now the self-same muckers who used to tread on their winklepickers at Glasgow's Splash One indie night had, like them, achieved a modicum of fame and notoriety.

Two of my techiest friends in their 30s, both of whom enjoy distinction and even a modicum of fame among the SXSW crowd, rolled their eyes when I asked if they were going.

Duport had a modicum of fame at the time, and as the only royalist academic at Trinity, he was an especially popular choice to teach the offspring of rich royalist families.

Tiger Droppings has become so big that some of its more popular participants enjoy a modicum of Internet fame.

Ms. Sarella, who in 2005 achieved a modicum of outsourcing fame when she was one of the virtual assistants featured in an Esquire magazine article about exported work, said she welcomed the opportunity to do something more creative than the data-entry work or chores for distant executives that she has typically done as a virtual assistant.

The elder Chandran, we're told, claimed to have achieved a modicum of literary fame as "the spiritual source" of Somerset Maugham's novel "The Razor's Edge," which told the story of a worldly young man who gives up his inheritance for the holy life.

He found a modicum of independent fame, and has admitted to being a fan of his former band's music and owning their records.

Alcohol may be killing us all or whatever that depressing new study says, but at least it helped one lonely soul out there find connection or at least some small modicum of internet fame.