What happened to the much-vaunted straight shooter?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama the Unruffled] Reference

Only the much-vaunted "Affondatore" had not yet joined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

I also spent some time with the much-vaunted Vice City.    From Wordnik.com.  [kevynwight Diary Entry] Reference

So much for that much-vaunted Special Relationship, eh?.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

"Oh! So that's your much-vaunted German 'Kultur,' is it?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference

Next up for scrutiny is the much-vaunted green jobs scheme.    From Wordnik.com.  [Budget 2009: The Budget nasties come to light] Reference

How sad a thing the much-vaunted triumph has proved after all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886.] Reference

The much-vaunted economic plan is now blemished from the outset.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will dithering Darling get the chop?] Reference

Plus, a nasty spat deflates the much-vaunted comity of the Senate.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 7, 2006] Reference

Longfellow in his "Evangeline;" and the much-vaunted superiority of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886] Reference

Also, apple unveils the much-vaunted, much-touted, much - anticipated iPhone.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2007] Reference

Heston Blumenthal's much-vaunted diner at the Mandarin hotel opens in the autumn.    From Wordnik.com.  [POMEGRANATE AND NINE-BEAN CHOCOLATE] Reference

In a single encounter the reputation of the much-vaunted Uhlans was torn to shreds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tommy Atkins at War As Told in His Own Letters] Reference

Last week, the much-vaunted G. Terry Madonna offered the following pearl of wisdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Franklin And Marshall: Clinton Ahead By Six In Pennsylvania] Reference

The only option left for the much-vaunted Clinton-legacy is to try to game the system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Campaign: Hillary Is Already "Waving White Flag" In Key General Election States] Reference

My hair stood on end and I felt rather critical of their much-vaunted Prussian discipline.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland] Reference

The much-vaunted surge of 30,000 troops that began back in January did not actually crest until June.    From Wordnik.com.  [Refusing to Lose] Reference

And certainly no sign at this stage of that much-vaunted operation to take the Afghan capital, Kabul.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2001] Reference

Oldendorf has proved his much-vaunted devotion to us by not withdrawing, and election day is not yet past.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference

The much-vaunted German submarine 'blockade' was not conspicuous, for we neither saw nor heard of a submarine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919] Reference

It's also quite possible that the much-vaunted, iPhone-like Palm Pre will get to Verizon before any iPhone does.    From Wordnik.com.  [iPhone and Verizon: An intriguing possibility] Reference

Second, the much-vaunted Middle Eastern association with Pakistan, curiously, has yielded a poor relief response.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saskia Sassen: Pakistan's Floods Reveal an Emerging Geopolitics] Reference

This is so even though the much-vaunted supermajority in the senate is not necessary to repeal the current policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life Support for "Don't Ask, Don't Tell": Are Democrats the Problem?] Reference

The much-vaunted economic recovery, driven mainly by high global commodity prices, needs new investment to continue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Views of a Firing] Reference

Few countries have had such a need for their universities to demonstrate concretely their much-vaunted leadership role.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPEECH BY MANDELA GREETING PROFESSOR DAVID WOODS] Reference

This led us to infer that the much-vaunted "siege train" (which was the talk of the city) had begun its work of devastation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference

If attacks on helpless minority populations continue with impunity, India's much-vaunted economic growth may soon be at risk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tide Of Intolerance] Reference

As things turned out, Windows users now have little reason to feel left out of the Mac's much-vaunted video-editing capability.    From Wordnik.com.  [IMovie Comes To Windows, Courtesy of Adobe] Reference

That much-vaunted "Eurasian land-bridge" between China and Europe took months of patient planning between different national companies.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Tickets, Please] Reference

The much-vaunted Internet ability to transform itself into a grassroots operation didn't happen, and it didn't happen in New Hampshire.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 7, 2004] Reference

It is not, then, as if Sonia's rise can be explained solely in terms of India's much-vaunted accepting, tolerant and eclectic disposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sonia, The Ideal Symbol] Reference

Our much-vaunted system of checks and balances failed to temper the mendacity of the president who acted like a king and got away with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Scheer: Two Wars Don't Make a Right] Reference

Levy-Golan has training in tai chi and qigong, but also in the esoteric but much-vaunted "internal" Chinese martial art of Shing-Yi Ch'uan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arthur Rosenfeld: The Key to Qi -- A Book Review] Reference