Sentence examples for win fame for from inspiring English sources
They were to develop in different directions, on different time lines – while Johns was the first to make it big with his 1954-5 replica of an American flag in which half-visible newspaper clippings hang in waxy paint, the slower-maturing Twombly would only win fame for his passionate, painterly graffiti from the 1970s onward.
Young John Reed, yet to win fame for his coverage of the revolutions in Mexico and Russia, thrilled to the plebeian ambience of the borderline slum he shared with a coven of Cambridge classmates on the south edge of Washington Square at No. 42.
He received a traditional education in Medina and won fame for his piety and learning.
He later won fame for co-authoring a guide on dealmaking.
He and the Rangers won fame for their role in the assaults on Monterey, Veracruz, and Mexico City.
The humiliation marks a low for the film's author, Joe Eszterhas, who won fame for writing Basic Instinct.
He won fame for identifying "soccer moms" as a crucial constituency in President Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign.
Calcutta's Chinatown won fame for its red lanterns, exotic food and drug dens.Things began to go downhill after independence in 1947.
Mr Graham, the first Republican to represent the third district of South Carolina in more than a century, won fame for his role in the Clinton impeachment.
Saikaku first won fame for his amazing facility in composing haikai, humorous renga (linked-verse) poems from which the 17-syllable haiku was derived.
His playing at the All-India Music Conference in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1937 won fame for himself and respect for the shehnai as a classical music instrument.
