PUBLICITY in a Sentence

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For PUBLICITY, below is one of 420 sentences:
You may have sincerity, but you have no modesty; out of the pettiest vanity you expose your sincerity to publicity and ignominy.

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 Meanings and Examples of PUBLICITY
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publicity
 n.  state of being public; information to attract public notice
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Clifford was a coming man; and it was remarkable what a sound publicity instinct he had.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  Whereas Clifford discovered new channels of publicity, all kinds.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
3  He was going to win, to win: not as he had won with his stories, mere publicity, amid a whole sapping of energy and malice.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
4  We want no audience, no publicity.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
5  But if I can be the means of restraining the publicity of the business, of limiting the exhibition, of concentrating our folly, I shall be well repaid.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
6  She did not think he would face publicity.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
7  Besides, he had been employed for thirteen years in a great Catholic wine-merchant's office and publicity would mean for him, perhaps, the loss of his job.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
8  Anxious as he was to avoid personal notice, he took, in the printed mention of his name, a pleasure so exquisite and excessive that it seemed a compensation for his shrinking from publicity.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
9  You may have sincerity, but you have no modesty; out of the pettiest vanity you expose your sincerity to publicity and ignominy.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: XI
10  The public," it said, "have lost a sensational treat through the sudden death of the man Hope, who was suspected of the murder of Mr. Enoch Drebber and of Mr. Joseph Stangerson.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
11  Never mind," I answered, "I have all the facts in my journal, and the public shall know them.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
12  In these days Napoleon rarely appeared in public, but spent all his time in the farmhouse, which was guarded at each door by fierce-looking dogs.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
13  Napoleon himself was not seen in public as often as once in a fortnight.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
14  For a horse, it was said, the pension would be five pounds of corn a day and, in winter, fifteen pounds of hay, with a carrot or possibly an apple on public holidays.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
15  An anecdote was on the tip of her tongue, about a public lavatory built to celebrate the same occasion, and how the Mayor.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  She arranged a publicity stunt to make the public aware of the product.
17  Sales of the product have been seriously hurt by the adverse publicity.
18  The firm had received bad publicity over a defective product.
19  She has shunned publicity since she retired from the theatre.
20  His distaste for publicity of any sort is well known.
21  Their marketing strategy for the product involves obtaining as much free publicity as possible.
22  No one would be interested so the publicity is the only way to build a base of buyers.
23  Faced with an increasingly competitive jobs market and frequent bad publicity over pay and conditions, the army is getting ever more sophisticated and corporate in its approach to recruitment.
24  To the starlet, any publicity was good publicity: if she couldn't have a good reputation, she'd settle for notoriety.
25  The public never had faith in his ability to handle the job.
26  The public transport system was absolutely hopeless.
27  Villagers say the fence would restrict public access to the hills.
28  He plans to barnstorm across the state to generate public support.
29  The government is fighting a rearguard action against the mass of public opinion.
30  His bad action was scorned by the public.