"fame" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Dead Bartoloméo preached his pregnant sermon, and its burden was: You that worship the vanities of earth - you that long for worldly honor, worldly wealth, worldly fame - behold their worth!
- The noise Of worldly fame is but a blast of wind, That blows from divers points, and shifts its name Shifting the point it blows from.
- And worldly fame turned to ashes in Damiano's soul.
- For one thing, none of his reasons for returning to Juilliard were about worldly fame and power-as a Bard, he already had more of both than most people could imagine.
- Her triumph, it would seem, was complete, enough to bring glee to the heart of any teen-age girl caught up in conflicting desires for passionate romance, worldly fame and soulful independence.
- Fiercely ambitious, he despised worldly fame.
- "Eclogue 5" articulates another significant pastoral theme, the shepherd-poet's concern with achieving worldly fame through poetry.
- But again, I thought of the purely mortal impulse, the vain impulse, for worldly fame, acknowledgment.
- Dwelling among contradictions - worldly fame and literary immortality, secular riches and academic monkhood - has made Eco's life an eternal pendulum, but he could also be seen as a synthesis of the commercial and the classic.
- Acclaimed the biggest sporting figure in the world at his peak, Nurmi was averse to publicity and the media, stating later on his 75th birthday that "worldly fame and reputation are worth less than a rotten lingonberry."
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