Sentence examples for rocketing him from inspiring English sources

Then came the Black Paintings, which, besides rocketing him to fame, promulgated a new idea of what art can do and, more to the point, what it can do without.

Koons made casts in gleaming stainless steel ("poor people's platinum," he called it) of liquor paraphernalia — including a "Jim Beam Train," filled with bourbon and tax-stamped at the distiller's factory — and of sculptures and figurines of Louis XIV, Bob Hope, a mermaid, and, rocketing him to public notice, the steel bunny, mirroring its surroundings.

His slight build, smile, and tendency to somehow communicate an innate sweetness while balls-deep in a colleague's asshole gained him legions of female fans, rocketing him to porn star fame, and eventually, real fame.

None have yet outdone Alex Hope, however, a 23-year-old British currency trader who, he says, spent over $300,000 at a nightclub, rocketing him to fame before ultimately being arrested for involvement in an "unauthorised foreign exchange trading scheme".

This rocketed him to stardom.

His prepared speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention, the speech that rocketed him to national fame, had a similar quality.

Daly figured to sleep well Thursday night, after his flurry on the back nine rocketed him up the leader board.

There, Emanuel's prodigious energy, along with his contempt for what he called "liberal theology," rocketed him higher and higher into the Clinton stratosphere.

Bo has mounted a spirited defence over the past five days, displaying the charisma that rocketed him to the top of the Communist party elite.

Wearing roller skates and holding a fire extinguisher between his knees, he discharges the extinguisher, whose blast rockets him across the stage.

He used his departure from the Onion to write and publicize How to Be Black, a book of essays that blended wit and memoir and rocketed him to another level of notoriety.