Sentence examples for winning fame from inspiring English sources

Obsessed with winning fame and fortune, he achieved these objectives by turning his energies toward printmaking.

Handmade sausages are a particular speciality, with the spicy Bishopton winning fame locally.

Alexander Campbell rapidly gained influence as a reformer, winning fame as preacher, debater, editor (Christian Baptist), and champion of the new popular democracy.

The first significant help came from Jonas Collin, one of the directors of the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, to which Andersen had gone as a youth in the vain hope of winning fame as an actor.

Before winning fame as a writer, Mutis traveled to Mexico in 1956 with letters of recommendation from the Spanish film-maker Luis Bunuel and the Mexican television producer Luis de Llano Palmer, and never left.

Several years younger than Benjamin, Adorno by 1950 was well on the way to winning fame as perhaps the most powerful figure on the academic left in West Germany.

Ms. Hartigan won fame early.

GOOD impersonators win fame and fortune in human society.

There he began to win fame as a preacher, and his position seemed secure.

Boucher first won fame with his sensuous and light-hearted mythological paintings and pastoral landscapes.

He received a traditional education in Medina and won fame for his piety and learning.