Sentence examples for which stardom from inspiring English sources

McConaughey's bared torso suggested one more way in which stardom is like sainthood: requiring a mortification of the flesh.

Of course many of those who attended "Bum Bum" — and all the rest of them seemed to be under 35 on the day I was there — have grown up in a culture in which stardom can be a do-it-yourself phenomenon, achievable at home with a computer, a camera and a music track.

You cannot simply shift a load of television actors onto a movie screen and expect them to command its greater expanse; only one in a thousand will be able to summon that mysterious confluence of presence and reserve on which stardom relies — the will both to offer oneself to the camera and yet to keep back the hidden, unguessable sources of that self.

His filmography certainly hasn't been stellar, but I think he also stepped – especially with the abortive xXx franchise, touted as a kind of multicultural 007 – into the kind of overly focus-grouped, demographic no-man's land that is the most artificial aspect of multiculturalism, and that infringes upon the rules of close audience identification on which stardom ultimately rests.

Angela eventually decides to give up on her dreams of stardom – which she realises were really in a lot of ways her wacky boyfriend's dreams of stardom, not hers at all.

And also from the movie "20 Feet from Stardom," which is about backup singers, including Merry Clayton.

Others hold fast to dreams of stardom, which seldom seem to come true.

Defiant, hard-boiled Sister, who is approaching 30, is dead set on stardom, which she will do anything to achieve.

But they have handled the instant stardom, which in Japan can be suffocating, with aplomb and grace.

Today, they shoot for stardom, which can establish them as a brand, which can allow them to create restaurant empires.

Another way of saying that is that she failed the most basic obligation of stardom, which is to be sexy.