Abū Bakr's father, Saʿd, for whom Saʿdī took his pen name, conferred great prosperity on Shīrāz.
Big Russ, it turns out, is a name conferred by Tim Russert on his father, not something that his friends called him.
Mailer's nonfiction belongs to the New Journalism, the name conferred by Tom Wolfe on the style of magazine writing that flourished in the nineteen-sixties.
Because developers usually built whole neighborhoods, Mr. Ettenberg said, similar houses are found within each area, with sometimes-whimsical street names conferred at the outset.
"Dinochelus ausubeli" was the name conferred earlier this year on a strange deep sea monster, a lobster discovered off the Philippine coast whose right claw is elongated into a fearsome pincer.
At the breakfast table she eats jam insouciantly with her fingers, and as the crisis emerges, she is uniquely able to placate Claire's child Leo, demonstrating an intuitive wisdom and coming into her own as "Auntie Steel-breaker", the name conferred upon her by said nephew.
A Bureau of Indian Affairs official in Oklahoma wrote a report of a meeting that September in which an Interior Department lawyer named Janet Spaulding conferred with Seminoles.
They want authenticity and purity, which the Montalcino name confers.
Inferno, despite the promise of lawless bacchanalia its name confers, actually caters to a relatively innocent crowd: teenagers.
Regardless of whether a celebrity chef is glued to the kitchen, his name confers an assurance of consistent quality.
