Words similar to big-name

Example sentences for: big-name

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Despite a lineup of big-name talent--including Roy Lichtenstein, Jeff Koons, and Claus Oldenberg--the world's most prestigious contemporary art exhibition fails to excite.
Praise for the idea behind director Robert Altman's six-episode dramatic series: Each installment has a different premise, a different big-name director (including Altman and James Foley), and different big-name actors (Rosanna Arquette and Carrie Fisher)--but the same prop: a pearl-handled semiautomatic.
About the hotel tab for the big-name New York writer who spent three weeks in Washington's Hay-Adams (basic room: $285 a night) researching a Vanity Fair story that will never run.
Big-name country artists have forsaken the form--not only for filthy lucre, but also because mainstream success helps them "lose the sense of inferiority they've had since Appomattox."
The need to win private support may encourage a higher degree of artistic conservatism--too many performances of crowd pleasers like Tosca instead of works by 20 th century composers--and an overreliance on big-name superstars.