Sentence examples for stuff of scandal from inspiring English sources

The news that a former boxer got free seats at three big Las Vegas fights hardly seems the stuff of scandal.

The new face of opera *Powder her Face by Thomas Adès, which comes to the end of its run in the Linbury Studio Theatre at the Royal Opera House on 12 May, is based on the life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, whose sexual exploits were the stuff of scandal and gossip in Britain in 1963.

This is hardly the stuff of scandal.

Her August 16, 2001 memo to Lay is now the stuff of scandal-trivia buffs.

But while detractors argue that this is unseemly, it is not the stuff of conventional scandal.

Great characterization aside, don't be fooled by the "chick lit" title: the plot of this book is the stuff of adventure political scandal, stranded pirates, ravishing romance, and survival story.

A soft-spoken academic with a gracious manner and an engagingly toothy smile, Mr Buttiglione is scarcely the stuff of which scandals are made.

His career in oil and baseball is studded with exactly the sort of insider-only benefits that are now the stuff of business-page scandal: unearned stock options, below-prime loans, curiously well-timed stock sales, earnings "restatements".

In other words: An incumbent being dirty isn't an unfamiliar notion and it's not the stuff of bona fide scandal.

But most intriguing of all is what she refers to as his "double-love" – "his relationship to two women which was the stuff of the best type of scandal".

Having washed his hands of any responsibility for the goings-on – bit of sex, bit of scandal, usual stuff – on the 2008 England tour to New Zealand, he is now scrubbing them to rid himself of any fallout from the World Cup of 2011.