"famous" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In establishing the basis of the case, Baron Alderson, made what has become a famous definition of negligence:
- The passage almost certainly derives from Henri Bergson's famous definition of comedy: the mechanical encrusted on the living.
- Then follows Wirth's famous definition of the city.
- That eloquent remark calls up the famous Greek definition of tyranny as a fine position because there is no retreat from it.
- Everybody mockingly repeats the famous childish definition that faith is "the power of believing that which we know to be untrue."
- The famous hardheaded definition of war is "the continuation of politics by other means."
- Shakespeare's Polonius would have had to extend his famous definition of drama if he were to embrace Ms. Churchill's work.
- Aristotle's famous definition of rhetoric is viewed as the ability in any particular case to see the available means of persuasion.
- The book begins with Schmitt's famous, or notorious, definition: "Sovereign is he who decides on the exception."
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