The artist provided another clue when he described his predilection " to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them ", and was in any case notoriously reluctant to consider a painting complete.

Most notoriously, Prince Charles described the building in 1988 as " a clever way of building a nuclear power station in the middle of London without anyone objecting ".

A number of the leading early modernists became known for their right-wing views ; these included Eliot, who once described himself as a Royalist, Stein, who supported the Vichy government for a time at least, and, most notoriously, Pound, who, after moving to Italy in the early 1930s, openly admired Benito Mussolini and began to include anti-Semitic sentiments in his writings.

Joe Blancato described the game as " notoriously buggy ".

* The enzyme RuBisCO has been described as a " notoriously inefficient " enzyme, as it is inhibited by oxygen, has a very slow turnover and is not saturated at current levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Jim Schembri, notoriously tough television critic for the Melbourne newspaper The Age has described the show as " the hands-down funniest and smartest local laughfest on TV in 2006.

The area was once notoriously squalid and described as " The very capital of cholera " and " The Venice of drains " by the Morning Chronicle of 1849.

" Morris described Clark as " the only man who ever got within a furlong of intimacy " with the notoriously distant Reagan, and his ability to relate to Reagan inspired jealousy, at the same time that Clark's taciturn nature made him unlikely to build allies.

Semtex became notoriously popular with terrorists because it was, until recently, extremely difficult to detect, as in the case of Pan Am Flight 103.

He went on to say: " On this principle of inheritance with modification, we can understand how it is that sections of genera, whole genera, and even families are confined to the same areas, as is so commonly and notoriously the case.

For be it known to you, that in such a case you shall either publicly, boldly, notoriously, pack a jury, or else see the accused rebel walk a free man out of the Court of Queen's Bench — which will be a victory only less than the rout of your Lordship's redcoats in the open field.

The better known of his lovers included cabaret singer Florence Mills, banking heiress Poppy Baring, socialite Margaret Whigham ( later Duchess of Argyll and involved in a notoriously scandalous divorce case ), Barbara Cartland ( who believed him to be the father of her daughter Raine McCorquodale ) and musical star Jessie Matthews.

Lee notoriously declared that " the case was the same as if asses had been thrown overboard ", and that a master could drown slaves without " a surmise of impropriety ".

Owned by Robert Shedden, who purchased the land in 1748, it is notoriously linked to the case of James Montgomery.

Vance was the first African American woman to become a SNL repertory player ( not to be confused with Yvonne Hudson from season six, who first appeared as a recurring extra for season four and season five and was hired as a feature player during Jean Doumanian's notoriously shaky sixth season ), the only SNL cast member to have a learning disability ( Vance was dyslexic and, according to Al Franken in the book, Live from New York: The Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, Vance had trouble memorizing lines and reading cue cards, though it wasn't made apparent in most cases and, in one case, was covered up by ad-libbing ), was the first lesbian cast member hired ( though her sexual orientation wasn't known until her death ), and the only black lesbian cast member as of 2012.

:" To ufologists, the case is perhaps the most baffling and frustrating of modern times, for what started with solid evidence for a notoriously elusive phenomenon petered out in a maze of dead ends, denials, and perhaps even official deviousness.

Though by birth belonging to the middle class in a country of hide-bound aristocracy, he lived to move on equal terms in the society of princes and statesmen ; which would never have been the case had he been notoriously bought and sold.

In any case, neither could be used: an arch bridge would not have met the height and width restrictions imposed by the Admiralty, and suspension bridges were notoriously unfit for carrying railway trains.

He was probably the grandson of Gislebert Crispin, Baron of Bec, although the Crispin line — being a root of many noble English families — is notoriously convoluted and sometimes vague.

Both von Osten and Hans were notoriously bad tempered and prone to rage when the horse did not perform well.

Life with Flinders Petrie was notoriously harsh, and after a while Arthur Weigall went to work for Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing, a German Egyptologist.

Dutch Leonard, Johnny Niggeling, Roger Wolff, and Mickey Haefner all threw the notoriously difficult to catch knuckleball, making Ferrell the first catcher in major league history to accomplish the feat.

His greatest achievement in F1 was taking victory for BRM in the 1959 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, when the notoriously unreliable car worked well for once ( Dan Gurney and Hans Herrmann had bad crashes after brake failures ).

Richard Wagner notoriously argued that those who were ethnically different could not comprehend the artistic and cultural meaning inherent in national culture.

A connection of the medieval feis of Samhain with pre-Christian traditions was drawn by the " notoriously unreliable " Geoffrey Keating ( died 1644 ), who claimed that the druids of Ireland would assemble on the night of Samhain to kindle a sacred fire.

It is named after the Reverend William Archibald Spooner ( 1844 – 1930 ), Warden of New College, Oxford, who was notoriously prone to this tendency.

He was widely known for his paranoia and his obsession with torturing people who disappointed him in any way, which included tardy girlfriends, friends who disagreed with him and, most notoriously, Iraqi athletes who performed poorly.

Meetings were not all serious ; the Inklings amused themselves by having competitions to see who could read the notoriously bad prose of Amanda McKittrick Ros for the longest without laughing.

Lady Antonia Fraser says of Knox, " He saw himself as a heaven-sent preacher, whereas in fact he was a bold earthly revolutionary, who openly preached violence, and notoriously considered the death of an unjust ruler absolutely justified.

The Los Angeles area has notoriously been referred to as " Tehrangeles " due to the large volume of Iranian-Americans who live in the LA area.

The ancient Greeks were notoriously dismissive of barbaroi – those who spoke Greek non-natively or not at all.

Disturbed by men admiring her beauty as she ran through the forest, she declared that whoever wanted to marry her was to beat her in a footrace ( herself being a notoriously swift runner ), and that those who should try and lose would be punished by instant death.

According to the notoriously unreliable Historia Augusta, his mother was a Roman woman called Fabia Orestilla, born circa 165, who the Augustan History claims was a descendant of Roman Emperors Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius through her father Fulvus Antoninus.

" George III seriously thought of abdicating at this time, after the comprehensive defeat of his American policy and the imposition of Fox and North, but refrained from doing so, mainly because of the thought of his succession by his son, George Augustus Frederick: the notoriously extravagant womaniser, gambler and associate of Fox, who could swear in three languages.

At the 1993 Indianapolis 500, winner Emerson Fittipaldi, who owned and operated an orange grove, notoriously drank orange juice instead of milk following the win.

Because of his determination to create art according to his own principles rather than those of his patrons, he is also noted for being one of the earliest romantic painters working in Britain, though as an artist few rated him highly until the fully comprehensive 1983 exhibition at the Tate Gallery led to a reassessment of this " notoriously belligerent personality ", who emerges as one of the most important Irish Neoclassical artists.

By this time, they were sufficiently famous that the presentation was noted in the London newspapers. Maria, who was notoriously tactless, was reported to have made a notable gaffe by telling the elderly George II that the spectacle she would most like to see was a royal funeral.

She wound up earning more than Valentino, who had notoriously bad contract deals.

He convinced Antônio to visit the Court where he became a protégé of Emperor Dom Pedro II, who, being notoriously interested in the careers of Brazilian artists and intellectuals, made possible for Antônio Carlos to study at the Musical Conservatory of Rio de Janeiro.

When told about the plot, de Gaulle ( who was notoriously careless of his personal safety ) refuses, absolutely, to cancel his public appearances, modify his normal routines, or even allow any kind of public inquiry into the assassin's whereabouts to be made.

In the Assize of Clarendon, enacted in 1166 and the first great legislative act in the reign of the English Angevin King Henry II, the law of the land required that: " anyone, who shall be found, on the oath of the aforesaid jury, to be accused or notoriously suspect of having been a robber or murderer or thief, or a receiver of them ... be taken and put to the ordeal of water.

He was a Puritan minister who was involved with the government of the colony, the administration of Harvard College, and most notoriously, the Salem witch trials.