Publicity

Examples

• The last time he had seen him he seemed to have gotten to believe his own publicity and think he was a peasant. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It is not until the speakers and the publicity agents have actually begun to animate it that the country sees what the party is about. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• You understand, of course--there wouldn't be a hint of publicity--not a sound or a syllable to connect you with the thing. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I thank you more for the evident sincerity of the compliment, sir, than for the extraordinary publicity you have given to it! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The Wrights still tried to preserve as much secrecy as possible, and the newspaper men to furnish as much publicity. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• We want no audience, no publicity. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• In one instance the resentment of the victim of such unsought publicity was so intense he laid hands on Edison and pitched the startled young editor into the St. Clair River. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He began a campaign of publicity, with the object of making the name of the new instrument a household word. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Mademoiselle, neither titles nor crowned heads excite my modesty; and publicity is very much my element. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The dictograph, to which much publicity is now given, by reason of its use in detective work, is an instrument for magnifying sound. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up, said he, of course you can hardly avoid publicity. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Probably no industrial operation excites more widespread interest, when accorded publicity, than the mining of coal, and that because of the dangers which attend it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It seemed too precious an offering for any degree of publicity. Jane Austen. Emma.
• If I could have had my own way, I would have kept my adventure to myself--I shrink from all this fuss and publicity. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Dear and admirable woman, invite no dangerous publicity. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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