Sentence examples for notable affair from inspiring English sources

He married three times, and in one notable affair, fictionalized in the 1981 movie "Reds," he fell for the writer Louise Bryant, who was already involved with the journalist John Reed.

Happy's funeral was a notable affair; he was back in the news once again and what you thought about him depended on which story of his life you leaned towards believing.

YOU might have thought that, three years after a devastating terrorist attack on American soil, a period which has featured two wars, radical political and economic legislation, and an adjustment to one of the biggest stockmarket crashes in history, the campaign for the presidency would be an especially elevated and notable affair.

2004: John Kerry"You might have thought that, three years after a devastating terrorist attack on American soil, a period which has featured two wars, radical political and economic legislation, and an adjustment to one of the biggest stockmarket crashes in history, the campaign for the presidency would be an especially elevated and notable affair.

(In his journals, the essayist Edmund Wilson used pseudonyms for his lovers, though historians have still been able to uncover a few: He lost his virginity to the poet Edna St . Vincent Millay was one of Anaïs Nin's conquests, and married the novelist Mary McCarthy, who herself had a notable affair with the art critic Clement Greenberg).

Suppers at our home were notable affairs.

"I knew that if I dabbled with Philipa that night," he reflects during an unforeseen demi-snog with an unhappy neighbour, "I could be entering the pantheon of historical and notable affairs".

Sackville-West, who had already had notable lesbian affairs, was married to Harold Nicolson.

Forecast the Facts argues that Koch's "anti-science track record" should disqualify him from any role at the company that produces the award-winning science series "Nova" and other notable public affairs programming.

Italy 1990 was a low-scoring and bad-tempered affair, notable mainly for Cameroon announcing the arrival of African soccer and almost knocking out England in the quarter finals.

Finally released on DVD 38 years after it first aired, it is a dark, surreal affair notable not only for Eric Thompson's outstanding script and voices, but also Fenella Fielding's spooky "blue voice", which drives newcomer Buxton the cat's dastardly plans.