Sentence examples for wider renown from inspiring English sources

Around Watford, anyway, wider renown for the Staves feels overdue.

Although he wants wider renown and respect, he's hesitant to boast about specific accomplishments.

Harris does cover a lot of territory economically, offering a tremendous cast of characters whose names deserve wider renown.

Additional drawbacks to wider renown include exacting climate needs and flowerless seedlings that do not beckon as marigolds do.

A wider renown came to Hujar after he died, curious enough for a man whose work was so conscious of the end of things.

A local favorite in her adopted home of Austin, Tex., she has been edging toward wider renown recently, thanks to "Way Down Low," her second self-released album, which draws about equally from jazz, cabaret and vintage cosmopolitanism pop.

He earned wide renown in 1976, when he led a daring 6,000 mile voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti and back in a doubled-hulled canoe, the Hokule'a.

The fiery-haired stylist gained wide renown after appearing in The September Issue earlier this year, a fly-on-the-wall documentary set at the magazine's offices in New York.

French physician Ambroise Paré's Des monstres et prodiges (1573; Of Monsters and Marvels) is an example that gained wide renown.

In 1430 he founded a new order of chivalry, a Burgundian version of the British Order of the Garter, called the Toison d'Or, or Golden Fleece, membership of which was limited to 24 noblemen of proven valour and wide renown.

It was also Mr. Jiang who decided to detain Jiang Yanyong, the Chinese doctor who earned wide renown for exposing the cover-up of the SARS epidemic last year and calling for a re-evaluation of the 1989 crackdown on democracy protests, people informed about the doctor's detention said.