Sentence examples for notorious event from inspiring English sources

The 2001 incident is the most notorious event in the entire Penn State saga.

The most emotional work in a generally icy œuvre, it was written around the time, in 1951, of the most notorious event in Burroughs's life: his fatal shooting of Vollmer, in a drunken game of "William Tell".

Widerberg frames the notorious event with the intimate details of daily life in the small town, focusing on the lives of the Andersson family and their intersecting relationships with neighbors, strikers, managers, and friends.

The hedonistic Britpop era brought a couple of memorable acceptance speeches, including Robbie Williams challenging Liam Gallagherto a fight, but the most notorious event (Jarvis Cocker mooning Michael Jackson) went unseen.

Somehow "The Poppa Piece" tied this small-scale patriarch to the most notorious event of Jerome Robbins's life, the 1953 House Un-American Activities Committee hearing in which the young but celebrated choreographer named Communist Party members he had known.

There had recently been a notorious event, the Mountain Meadows massacre, in southern Utah, in which a hundred and twenty men, women, and children from Arkansas were killed by Mormon militias masquerading as Native Americans, and so the Hawkins party joined forces with another wagon train heading West from Illinois.

But these days, he says, he focuses on moving forward rather than on the nationally notorious events that ensnared him.

But Hughes, who said Bond was "unequivocally and absolutely" the most unforgettable person he had ever met, steered away from the more notorious events of Bond's life.

The shooting of Mr. Evers, who was 37, outside his Jackson home was one of the most notorious events in the violence that marked the civil rights era.

The executions of the prisoners, who were pulled from a hospital in the Croatian town of Vukovar, were considered among the most notorious events in the war.

The Tet offensive was one of the most notorious events in the Vietnam war, as the Viet Cong took advantage of a ceasefire (for the Vietnamese new year) to unleash brutal assaults on several south Vietnamese cities.