Sentence examples for temporary popularity from inspiring English sources

In a review of "The Complete Writings" in The Nation in 1946, the eminent early-Americanist Perry Miller sneered, "The price of popularizing for contemporaries is temporary popularity".

Child stars who, with the exception of probably Shia Labeouf, capitalize on their tremendous (if temporary) popularity and leverage that into a career in music.

If you value your personality and self-being you won't let something as temporary as popularity get in the way of you being YOU.

Announcing this to someone can elicit diminished eye contact, but every four years I experience a temporary surge in popularity.

Despite initial intentions for Le Zénith de Paris to be a temporary structure, its popularity earned it a permanent place along the Ourcq Canal.

Come to think of it, though on a different scale, the impulse behind the temporary tattoo's popularity may not be all that different from the one that drives a desire for permanent ink.

Unlike those periods when some members of Congress feared crossing the President, in 2009 almost all Republicans were willing to bet that Obama's popularity was temporary.

Despite the temporary boost to his popularity, Mr Correa may soon find that governing Ecuador has not got any easier than it was for his predecessors.

Whether the popularity of the temporary galleries can help revive business activity in their neighborhoods is hard to assess.

Instead, the ex-Perrier champ (who won the award in 1999 after overturning a temporary disqualification on grounds of popularity) represents a slightly dispiriting creative drift, from satirising Little Englishness to seeming to celebrate it.

Of course, like the postmortem comeback of troubadour Johnny Cash, who appeared on our list in 2006 with earnings of $8 million but fell off in 2007, this surge in popularity might be temporary.