Sentence examples for reputation bore from inspiring English sources

The one who came closest was Senator John McCain, to whom Mr. Hatch's voting record and "maverick" reputation bore some surface resemblance.

A party-guy reputation borne out by the elements (drugs, infidelity, name dropping and social climbing) that loom large in his fiction.

With girls seen as the keepers of a family's reputation, Nadia bears the brunt of collective judgment well into her 20s.

Wright has long been one of the best-informed American journalists covering the Middle East, and her reputation is borne out here.

Although in the film world his reputation still bears the taint of the energetic amateur, since its Cannes premiere last year, Schnabel's third feature, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, has radically altered many people's view of his directing skills.

The big chains bore a reputation for operating dingy stores in run-down, high-crime neighborhoods, selling 99-cent items mostly to the poor.

Howard bore a reputation throughout much of Kentucky coal country as a stubborn and fearless whistleblower, and just about any miner in the area who hadn't already heard his name would hear it by the following morning.

While Hunt is a handsome playboy with a champagne lifestyle and shagadelic reputation (his badge bears the legend "Sex: Breakfast of Champions"), Lauda is a "rat-faced" systems analyst who goes to bed early after sweating over the mathematical permutations of success.

Leaving aside the innumerable surround sound and quadrophonic mixes (in keeping with the album's reputation as the hi-fi bore's demonstration disc of choice), there's a 1974 live performance, originally recorded for BBC radio, that rather pleasingly roughs up the studio gloss of the original.

The man they met bore no resemblance to his reputation.

But he acknowledged that the industry bore some responsibility for its reputation.