Perhaps he is projecting his own recent lack of success, but he is right that Desmond is deluded about the scale of her fame (the fan letters she receives are fake) and her importance to the modern movie industry (whatever she thinks, Cecil B DeMille is not waiting for her call).
Astronomers have devised a scale to rate the danger posed by asteroids headed for Earth, comparable to the Richter scale of earthquake fame.
Tracey's true foil in the novel isn't the narrator, who never attempts to scale the heights of fame that Tracey seeks, but Aimee, the narrator's boss.
Peng scaled the heights of fame long before her husband, President Xi Jinping.
Although the photograph achieved mythic status, and some of its subjects scaled the heights of fame, Ms. Sterne retreated to the margins of art history.
And the No. 5 book describes how two cheeky lads from Newcastle scaled the ladder of fame to become hosts of "Britain's Got Talent".
When Eddie the Eagle returned from Calgary after finishing stone-cold last in the ski jumping at the 1988 Winter Olympics, such was the scale of his sudden fame the crowd that turned out to greet him was numbered in the thousands.
The sphinx beside the scale is Braulio Baeza, the Hall-of-Fame jockey who before retiring in 1976 won almost every major horse race in the country -- about 4,200 professional victories -- including the 1963 Kentucky Derby.
Given Harris's fame, the scale of the coverage is unsurprising.
Like most Norwegians, Stensrud had visited the Munch Museum, but he hadn't quite grasped the scale of The Scream's global fame before he took on this case.
Since, we have four different scaled input variables and one variable (fractional formation of FAME) as our desired output, our chosen topology for the FF-ANN bears a 4 12 1 relationship (Fig. 2).
