Sentence examples for scant reputation from inspiring English sources

(Rilke, at this stage, was only 28, and had scant reputation of his own except among the cognoscenti).

The Metropolitan Opera has scant reputation as a cutting-edge institution, but it knows how to reap the benefits of technology.

Mr. Maazel, the music director of the New York Philharmonic and a world-renowned conductor -- but a composer of scant reputation with a limited catalog of works -- put much of his own money into the production.

At the time, the circumstances were certainly propitious, even though she was a mere third-term Congresswoman from New York, of scant national reputation.

After 90 minutes of unremitting toil, perspiration and scant regard for loftier reputations, blame was starting to be apportioned.

Married as I was to a golfer whose scant respect for his own reputation frequently sent his minions into a spin, I know only too well how painful the discussions must have been the night of that car accident last November.

Sure, the disclosure is scant and AIM has a funky reputation.

Although Igor Stravinsky resuscitated Tchaikovsky's reputation, most modernists still had scant regard for him well into the latter half of the 20th century.

While as PayPal co-founder, one of President Trump's top advisers, Peter Thiel, gained his wealth and reputation from fintech, there has been scant indication of the direction of fintech regulation change over the next four years.

Georges Cuvier, an early palaeontologist, made his reputation by predicting the anatomies of newly discovered fossil species from scant evidence, such as single bones.

By reputation, Japanese husbands are a fairly callous lot, prone to spending scant time with the children, doing almost no housekeeping and staying out late several nights a week drinking with buddies from work.