What is "famously"

Usage examples of "famously".

In the seventeenth century, Descartes famously turned in, arguing that the only thing man could be certain of was his inner life, in particular his doubt.

Unlike the segregationist Democrats who opposed him, McCarthy was famously color-blind, religion-blind, gender-blind, sexual orientation-blind.

Even the famously neutral Swiss sanctioned a series of military wound ballistics studies on cadavers in the late 1800s.

As suggested most famously by the cultural anthropologist Ruth Benedict, a member of the OWI intelligence team, the Japanese were said to behave in accordance with situational or particularistic ethics, as opposed to so-called universal values as in the Western tradition.

His trip to Yarmouth was a resounding success: he and an importer called Grover Pankey got along famously, smoked cigars on the beachfront, and struck a deal to supply Rackham Perfumeries with dirt-cheap ivory pots for the dearer balsams.

Natred, Kort, Spink, and I got along famously, and our comfort with one another made our dormitory room a pleasant place.

Famously ill geniuses include Dostoevsky, afflicted with epilepsy, and Van Gogh, who suffered from an undiagnosed disorder that could have been schizophrenia, epilepsy, or the ravages of advanced alcoholism.

But now the famously unsuperstitious Kthaara had done it for them, and there was something almost frightening about his daring.

Although Freud has been famously charged with backing away from the cultural implications of this theory, when he proposed the Oedipus complex and thereby transferred the libidinal activity from the parents to the children, we still find the etiology thesis alive and well in contemporary thinking about trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, as evidenced in the work of Judith Herman and Bessel van der Kolk.

The dogs proved so valuable on Guam that every Marine division was assigned a war dog platoon and they paved the way for the many dogs that have followed them in the armed services, most famously in Vietnam.

Caia Melania, that you have already judged me unqualified for the one famously invaluable gem in your jewel box.

Men before Herjellsen had doubted the sensibility-independent nature of space and time, notably and most famously the tiny, hunchbacked, brilliant Prussian, Immanuel Kant, but Kant had not had at his disposal the mathematics of polydimensional temporalities, and Kant had been rational in a way that Herjellsen was not.

Sir Lachlan MacQueen, with whom Buddy gets along famously, or so Pete says.

Sir Lachlan Mac-Queen, with whom Buddy gets along famously, or so Pete says.

Allegations in lawsuits are famously off the mark, but these sounded accurate.