Sentence examples for notorious best from inspiring English sources

Let us now give the devil his due and recognize the contribution of "Testimony," that notorious best seller of 1979, toward the posthumous reassessment of Shostakovich's musical and moral legacy.

Edward R. Pressman has been living with "American Psycho" for eight years, ever since Stuart Gordon, the director of the "Re-Animator" films, gave him a copy of Brett Easton Ellis's notorious best seller in 1992.

Fresh from his most recent job as strategist and court jester on Mr. McCain's presidential campaign bus, the Straight Talk Express, Mr. Murphy is considered among the G.O.P.'s notorious best -- the quick-witted, indispensable bad boy of Republican politics, and the creator of some of the best-known attack ads in the business.

There they can tour the modest birthplace of Caldwell, the notorious storyteller best known for such classics as "Tobacco Road" (1932) and "God's Little Acre" (1933).

Hunt (and his sons, including the notorious Nelson Bunker Hunt, best known for his disastrous attempt to corner the silver market in 1979-80) and three other less well-known oil men: Sid Richardson, Clint Murchison and Roy Cullen.

In fact, I'm in a car-park in Shoreditch, outside Chariots Roman Spa, which for two decades has been east London's most notorious and best-loved gay sauna.

The first best-selling novel I ever edited was Rona Jaffe's notorious "The Best of Everything".

By Robert Gottlieb October 22, 2012 The first best-selling novel I ever edited was Rona Jaffe's notorious "The Best of Everything".

It's not just an avalanche of Chic's monster hits: the eight-piece band can convincingly recreate anything touched by the hand of Rodgers, from Duran Duran's Notorious to the best of Sister Sledge and Diana Ross.

These include helping Neel take Yanomami blood and urine samples for genetic testing; reconstructing Yanomami genealogies despite the tribe's strict taboo against uttering the name of the dead; and indulging in acts of swashbuckling bravura that may have instigated the very violence for which he made his tribe notorious in his best-selling monograph, "Yanomami: The Fierce People".

"We told stars what they could say, and they did what we said because they knew we knew best," the notorious Howard Strickling, the head of MGM's publicity department, once boasted.