Sentence examples for something of a scandal from inspiring English sources
His marriages created something of a scandal on each occasion.
It is something of a scandal that is unfolding and he badly needs to grip it," he said.
Beard ended up marrying an aristocrat – something of a scandal – and running the Covent Garden opera house.
Mr. Sarkozy's close ties to media executives were considered something of a scandal, and his presidency drew greater scrutiny to the incestuous relationships.
In the mid-nineteen-eighties, Grillo caused something of a scandal by making jokes on-air about the corruption of the Italian Socialist Party, an open secret.
Indeed, his failure at the Conservatoire, after three attempts, to win the coveted Prix de Rome for composition (the works he submitted were judged too "advanced" by ultraconservative members of the jury) caused something of a scandal.
Like Dr Atl and Nahui Ollin, Modotti and Weston's transgressive rooftop relationship was something of a public scandal.
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His moves to both London and Harvard were prompted in part by institutional regulations requiring mandatory retirement, although his resignation from Cambridge was also done partly in protest over how the University had chosen to discipline Andrew Forsyth, a friend and colleague whose affair with a married woman had become something of a local scandal.
A close comparison of the World Economic Forum guest lists of 2011 and 2012 provides something of a chronicle of the scandals, disasters and corporate ousters that have taken place in the last 12 months.
The four Democrats competing in the primary on March 19 have been contending that the corruption on Mr. Ryan's watch is the worst ever in Illinois, a state that knows something of big scandal.
