Sentence examples for were so well known from inspiring English sources

He explained in the dictionary's foreword that the sexual and excretory vulgarities were "so well known as to require no explanation," while what he called the "true obscenities," the ethnic slurs, are "encountered with diminishing frequency these days".

He added: "It's almost as if the parties decided that all their policy proposals were so well known that they didn't need to bang on about them any more and so they devoted themselves to politicking instead".

As David Rieff has observed, Strauss-Kahn's proclivities were so well known that a French comedian had a skit years ago about him coming to a radio station for an interview and all women being ordered into a safe room.

By the time I moved to Shanghai, in 2003, the most famous features of the city were so well known that even first-time visitors could arrive enjoying a feeling of familiarity.

A few weeks before the party, in late August, the three were spotted at a suburban restaurant where Mr. Mitchell, with his long beard and flowing robe, and his wife, Wanda I. Barzee, 57, were so well known that the restaurant workers had a nickname for them.

These stories were so well known at the time of the movie's release that in the picture spread on the movie in Life (with captions in the very style that Mankiewicz had parodied in his "News on the March") the magazine — unconsciously, no doubt — returned to the Hearst original, and flubbed even that: Kane buys a newspaper in New York and sets out to be a great social reformer.

I was so well known everyone knew.

This movie is so well known.

So many lines in Hamlet are so well known.

The Unitarian summer off was so well known that there were jokes about it.

Of course, America's work ethic is so well known, it's often mocked.