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  • The much talked-of Wozzeck, which the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company put on, is a Schönberg stepchild.

    Someone to watch over me Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • In a 1992 essay, Gore Vidal mused on Lewis' contribution to American literature: "I expect to be the most talked-of writer," Lewis boasted before he was.

    Archive 2005-10-01 M-mv 2005

  • In a 1992 essay, Gore Vidal mused on Lewis' contribution to American literature: "I expect to be the most talked-of writer," Lewis boasted before he was.

    The recommended daily allowance M-mv 2005

  • Of such was Marjorie Ferrar — one of the most talked-of young women in London.

    The Silver Spoon 2004

  • The fame has arrived; with this lecture and your book just out you are going to be the most talked-of man in the country.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • Neither of them would seem to have been optimistic as to their future place in American literature; certainly in their most exalted moments they could hardly have dreamed that within half a dozen years they would be the head and front of a new school of letters — the two most talked-of men in America.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • It was the height of the season now, and being free to do so, he threw himself into the whirl of it, and for two months, beyond doubt, was the most talked-of figure in London.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • Described by Ezekiel Mphahlele in an 1956 article in Drum as "the most talked-of women in politics", Ngoyi was a leading figure in the African National Congress in the crucial 1950s and a central figure in the struggle for women's emancipation.

    ANC Today 2002

  • Drum as "the most talked-of women in politics", Ngoyi was a leading figure in the African National Congress in the crucial 1950s and

    ANC Today 2002

  • But the most talked-of couple in Lainyaari current events as well, Khornya and Aari.

    Acorna's Search McCaffrey, Anne 2001

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