In Germany, Beatty had ruined his reputation when he told the crews of his ships that were receiving the German High Seas Fleet for its internment at Scapa Flow, " Don't forget that the enemy is a despicable beast ," and arranged the surrender of the German Fleet as a grand spectacle of humiliation.

These paintings epitomized, both in subject and scale, the type of painting with which Ingres was determined to make his reputation, but, as Philip Conisbee has written, " for all the high ideals that had been drummed into Ingres at the academies in Toulouse, Paris, and Rome, such commissions were exceptions to the rule, for in reality there was little demand for history paintings in the grand manner, even in the city of Raphael and Michelangelo.

His reputation was established by the two published sets of sonatas which he dedicated respectively to Frederick the Great and to the grand duke of Württemberg.

Beauregard also proposed a grand strategy — submitted anonymously through his political allies so that it was not tainted by his reputation — to reinforce the Western armies at the expense of Robert E. Lee's army in Virginia, destroy the Federal army in Tennessee, which would induce Ulysses S. Grant to relieve pressure on Vicksburg and maneuver his army into a place where it could be destroyed.

Although Herbert's reputation lies with his operettas, he also composed two grand operas.

After the demolition of most of the grand mansions and departure of their aristocratic residents for the West End the area acquired a dissolute but lively reputation and became notable for its coffee houses, low taverns and cheap women.

A grand jury was unable to find sufficient evidence to indict him, convinced in part by his reputation as a deadly gunman and his statement that he " never shot at anybody, if I shoot they get shot !...

Summoned to Chicago to testify before a grand jury investigation of the incident, Rothstein said that he was an innocent businessman, intent on clearing his name and his reputation.

During these years, Kawai grand pianos earned a reputation for long-term, stable performance even in heavy-use situations.

Grosse Pointe, recognized for its historic reputation for scenery and landscape, has grown from a colonial outpost and a fertile area for small orchard owners and farmers to a coastal community with prime real estate chosen for grand estates.

West Adelaide, which has earned a reputation amongst its fans as being " consistently inconsistent " would win through to their next grand final in 1991.

However he acquired a reputation for extremism due to his zealous prosecutions and grand jury investigations of left-wing groups.

His early work was on a relatively modest scale but in later years, as his reputation grew and his client base became more affluent, his design projects became increasingly grand, culminating in the palatial Arango residence in Acapulco, Mexico.

In 1755 returned to Paris and, at first unappreciated and disparaged, he resolved by one grand effort to achieve a reputation, and in 1758 he exhibited his Death of Virginia.

It is worth noting that Welles has previously been known, despite his grand and well-deserved reputation as a performer, to take the equivalent of film " grunt work " in order to self-finance his personal projects.

His reputation had been previously established by the credit of decorations executed during his three years in Italy on the palace of Giustiniani Solini at Venice, and by some easel paintings, the Four Ages of Man ( National Gallery ), commissioned by the grand prior of Vendôme.

In 1877, the citizens of Central City organized a fundraising drive for a grand new opera house befitting the gold mining town's reputation as " the richest square mile on earth.

It is this reason, along with the varied and complex ownership of most grand and premier cru vineyards, that most wine experts put more weight on the reputation of the producer and the vintage year than on the vineyard name when it comes to evaluating all Burgundy wine-the Cote de Nuits not excluded.

His reputation swelled further with the 1936 Summer Olympics, which were held in the same year in Berlin, and which proved another great propaganda success for the regime as orchestrated by master propagandist Joseph Goebbels.

Trained under Prussian horse master, Herschberger, Grant established a reputation as a fearless and expert horseman, setting an equestrian high-jump record that lasted almost 25 years.

" The Treatise established his reputation as a master of orchestration.

Wilde's printing shop was in Golden Lion Court on Aldersgate Street, and Wilde had a reputation as " a master who grudged every hour ... that tended not to his profit ".

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Lean directed a series of blockbuster films that made his reputation as a truly international director and a master of the historical epic.

He carried his enquiries so far into the occult sciences of abstruse and hidden nature, that, after having given most ample proofs, by his writings concerning physiognomy, geomancy, and chiromancy, he moved on to the study of philosophy, physics, and astrology ; which studies proved so advantageous to him, that, not to speak of the two first, which introduced him to all the popes of his time, and acquired him a reputation among learned men, it is certain that he was a great master in the latter, which appears not only by the astronomical figures he had painted in the great hall of the palace at Padua, and the translations he made of the books of the most learned rabbi Abraham Aben Ezra, added to those he himself composed on critical days, and the improvement of astronomy, but by the testimony of the renowned mathematician Regiomontanus, who made a fine panegyric on him, in quality of an astrologer, in the oration he delivered publicly at Padua when he explained there the book of Alfraganus.

St. Mary ’ s is a nationally recognized master ’ s level school ranked among the top colleges in the west for best value and academic reputation by U. S. News and World Report.

This was not only very profitable ( for he is said to have received four thousand livres for each, which was much more than was usually paid even for tragedy ), but it established Quinault's reputation as the master of a new style -- so that even Boileau, who had previously satirized his dramatic work, was converted, less to the opera, which he did not like, than to Quinault's remarkably ingenious and artist-like work in it.

Both critics and the band's aficionados consider the album as ' definitive ' and ' crowning achievement ' which ( according to AllMusic ) " solidified Uriah Heep's reputation as a master of gothic-inflected heavy metal ".

Despite its problems, however, Habitat's fame and success " made reputation " and helped launch his career ; Safdie has now designed over 75 buildings and master plans around the world.

In Rome, his fresco painting of Parnassus at Villa Albani gained him a reputation as a master painter.

Whether the two ever really met is still uncertain, but he surpassed his master both in reputation and in the austerity of his life.

That established his reputation in England, and he became music master to Queen Charlotte.

Initially, even with Mr. Kahng ’ s reputation as a “ master cloner ,” getting Apple to take him seriously was a challenge.

On completing his course, Melville left St Andrews with the reputation of " the best poet, philosopher, and Grecian of any young master in the land.

He developed a reputation as a judicial moderate, and was known as a master of compromise and consensus-building.

This move consolidated his reputation as a scholar committed to empower minorities, regardless of race, age or gender, and as a master of the art of investing funding even if he did not have it.

Dorset Academy is at best a second-rate institution, having the reputation of an unusual sort of prep school, where many of the students are on scholarship, and Dr. Stone, the English master, is the only " Harvard man ".

The concerto remains popular and has developed a reputation as an essential concerto for all aspiring concert violinists to master, and usually one of the first Romantic era concertos they learn.

When Yicun died, Yunmen began travelling and visited quite a number of monasteries, cementing his reputation as a Ch ' an master.

" ( Versailles ), the Embarkation of Madame d ' Angoulême ( Bordeaux ), the plafond of the Egyptian room in the Louvre, and finally his Hercules and Diomedes, exhibited in 1835, testify only that Gros's efforts – in accordance with the frequent counsels of his old master David – to stem the rising tide of Romanticism only damaged his once brilliant reputation.

Later in 1465 Busnois moved to Poitiers, where he not only became " maîtrise " ( master of the choirboys ), but managed to attract a flood of talented singers from the entire region ; by this time his reputation as singing teacher, scholar, and composer seems to have spread widely.

The exploits of the hereditary prince, as he was called, soon gained him further reputation, and he became an acknowledged master of irregular warfare.

For his no attachment to the honor and reputation, he was called " A great master who is limitless Indifference, or giving up all things ".