cause célèbre

The prosecutors’ decision not to press for a longer sentence came after a surge of public support for Bacot, whose case has become a genuine cause célèbre.

As celebrities on the movie promotion circuit are wont to do, Cameron Diaz is hawking her latest cause celebre.

In his first term, Obama made the settlements something of a cause celebre.

She was this cause celebre, this major novelist, like better than Updike.

Rains kept silent about her dismissal even as the case became a cause celebre around her.

Then came the cause celebre, as it may be called, of the day, the trial of Xenophon himself.

Within twenty-four hours the Iams case became a National cause celebre.