In his famously anecdotal style. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a famous writer. ,The singer gave a famous performance. From Dictionary.com.
This from a guy who, famously, is afraid of flying. From Wordnik.com. [Ray Bradbury: still promising ten-year-old me a jetpack] Reference
This is famously from the Rick Sanchez interview days. From Wordnik.com. ['Shop Talk': Should Kendrick Meek Stay In Florida Senate Race?] Reference
This, famously, is what Tony Blair said to Paddy Ashdown, back in 1999. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference
As Mark Twain famously put it, Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. From Wordnik.com. [How Historical Fiction Went Highbrow] Reference
Wittgenstein famously admonished us not to mistake the map for the territory. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » My Theory’s Great, Except for the Times It Doesn’t Work] Reference
“Better fewer, but better,” as Lenin famously said in defense of periodic purges. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Geithner and Summers Against Nationalization] Reference
Mark Twain famously said: “Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.”. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Who Cares About “Climate Debt”?] Reference
There's no way Spitzer - who famously is difficult to get along with - would fit in in the United States Senate. From Wordnik.com. [Spitzer wants to run again] Reference
Klein famously canceled "Crossfire" after Jon Stewart's appearance mocking the program and eased Lou Dobbs out of a job. From Wordnik.com. [Knives come out at networks; NBC's Zucker and CNN's Klein are gone] Reference
Darwin famously spent little of his time at Cambridge studying or in lectures, preferring to shoot, ride and collect beetles. From Wordnik.com. [4 posts from April 2009] Reference
Mark Twain famously dismissed the act as an overrated pastime: ‘As an amusement it is too fleeting. From Wordnik.com. [New Reality TV Show – ‘Masturbation For Girls’ | Impact Lab] Reference
GERGEN: Well, that's -- you know, that's part of what they -- has been called famously the Bradley effect. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2008] Reference
Sarah Palin famously asked last winter. From Wordnik.com. [On the Offensive] Reference
She is the model who, Sony tells us, was 'famously' told she needed to lose weight by her agency. From Wordnik.com. [Technology Reviews, News] Reference
The former Men's Voguer 'famously' exchanged fisticuffs with his media colleague Spencer Morgan at the club last year, all over a girl. From Wordnik.com. [Gawker] Reference
Amis brought in the famously sharky American agent Andrew Wylie. From Wordnik.com. [The Infamous Martin Amis] Reference
Among a voluble, even flamboyant people, he was famously reticent. From Wordnik.com. [An Indispensable Man] Reference
Nuremberg was, famously, "victor's justice" (the trials gave us that phrase, too). From Wordnik.com. [Lessons Of Nuremberg] Reference
(Tomei famously came out of nowhere to win this award for "My Cousin Vinny" in 1993.). From Wordnik.com. ['Lord' Reigns] Reference
But now she's a famously persecuted writer -- which has a literary cachet all its own. From Wordnik.com. [Trials And Scribulations] Reference
The latter, more than any other factor, Confucius famously warned, delegitimizes rulers. From Wordnik.com. [A Smoke Screen] Reference
It's easier to find a drink in the famously dry town than a ticket to grand if weather-worn Dyche Stadium. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Cats Came Back] Reference
In taking a more moral approach to Highsmith's famously amoral story, Minghella ends up diminishing Ripley. From Wordnik.com. [A Blue Christmas] Reference
Yet in this famously group-oriented society, they were not a group at all; they were conspicuous individuals. From Wordnik.com. [Anybody Seen Any Samurai Around Here?] Reference
These days the word "slow" is not often paired in the same sentence with the famously roaring Chinese economy. From Wordnik.com. [China Slows Down] Reference
Less famously, it gives equal priority to defending Europe's commitment to the environment and social welfare. From Wordnik.com. [HARD NOSE] Reference
Joe Sexton, a deputy editor on the metro desk with a famously foul mouth, swore; Raines slapped him down brusquely. From Wordnik.com. [The Times Bomb] Reference
Louisiana guv Edwin Edwards famously said the only way he'd lose was if he was caught "with a dead girl or a live boy.". From Wordnik.com. [Paging the Pages Edition] Reference
In 1999, Bove famously trashed a half-built McDonald's in southern France in protest of America's fast-food imperialism. From Wordnik.com. [Like Father, Unlike Son] Reference
The title tune is Haimovtiz's interpretation of Jimi Hendrix's famously bombastic rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner.". From Wordnik.com. [A Contemporary Classic] Reference
Southwest Airlines employees are famously taught how to do an elbow-flapping "chicken dance" at the company's Dallas training center. From Wordnik.com. [Flight Paths: A New Math] Reference
A handful of their leaders have become famously rich pillaging the forest -- buying airplanes, motorboats, pickup trucks and video cameras. From Wordnik.com. [Not As Green As They Seem] Reference
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