Sentence examples for reputation impressed from inspiring English sources

Its film noir view of the cynical movie industry and the studio system, of the relative importance of truth versus reputation, impressed the judges at this year's Venice Film Festival (they awarded Ben Affleck the Best Actor award).

Mohun travelled to Africa via Belgium, the European colonial overlord of the Congo, where he met King Leopold II who, in spite of his callous reputation, impressed Mohun with his apparent ambition to bring peace and western civilization to the Congo.

A one-in-two striker with not only his every club but Spain, to whose squad he has returned after an absence of five years, he lived up to his reputation, impressing with almost every touch.

We are a society that is still largely tolerant - a society, what is more, that takes pride in being sceptical, refusing to be awed by reputation or impressed by success.

Lee's words set the standard by which Washington's overwhelming reputation was impressed upon the American memory.

So you want to be rid of the dolt in the dugout who has had the temerity to: a) not win a trophy for a whole season; or b) lacked sufficient reputation to impress your fellow multimillionaires in the directors' box.

The arcades, Variety noted, had a "faintly malodorous reputation," but the vitality impressed Loew.

But not everyone was impressed: his reputation took a bruising when Robert Hughes declared in The New Republic in 1987: "Schnabel's work is to painting what Stallone's is to acting – a lurching display of oily pectorals – except that Schnabel makes bigger public claims for himself".

Kreis, never one to be impressed by reputations, memorably clashed with the Englishman after a game two years later.

Although Chef James Overbaugh James Overbaugh has recently left to start his own restaurant, the new executive chef, Jonathan Wright Jonathan Wright, boasts a culinary reputation that should impress anyone in this food-obsessed city.

And the only way to acquire a good reputation is to impress women more than once.