Sentence examples for permanent reputation from inspiring English sources

Similarly, France's capitulation to the Germans in 1940 made the French into eternal cowards, just as Charles de Gaulle, a famously stubborn and uncooperative ally, secured his fellow citizens a permanent reputation in this country for untrustworthiness and arrogance.

Ambitious for a European and permanent reputation, the essayist and philosopher Francis Bacon wrote in Latin as well as in English; but, if he had lived only a few decades later, even he might have had total confidence in his own tongue.

Of the major fiction writers of the Harlem Renaissance, only Florida native Hurston, whose early short stories appeared in the late 1920s but who did not publish a novel until after the Harlem Renaissance had ended, published a masterwork that guaranteed her permanent reputation among African American novelists.

Yet, Turkle argues, in her research, the "agonizing" burden of a permanent, public reputation is too overwhelming for a young mind.

Both Lund and Dornig cite Permanent Vacation's reputation as a connoisseur's label as the reason for their enthusiasm for the project: "This is something exciting to the people we're trying to get to work with Play31," says Lund. "The kind of people they reach are the kind of people we reach as well".

President George W. Bush's bungled reaction to Katrina and the devastation of New Orleans became a permanent part of his reputation, and not in a good way.

Paul R. Brown, the chairman of the accounting department at the Stern School of Business of New York University, said of Andersen: "They have taken a permanent hit to their reputation".

This week, Burke Ramsey sued CBS for $750 million, claiming he suffered "permanent damage" to his reputation.

It spreads quickly and leaves a seemingly permanent stamp on one's reputation.

In June Spain shook off its long-standing reputation as the permanent under-achiever of world football, winning the European championship with swift and skilful attacking play.

An elegant, expertly written life of Sir Osbert Sitwell, an ineffable aristocrat with a temporary literary reputation and a permanent conviction that he, his sister Edith and his brother Sacheverell were made of superior clay.