Those who knew the reputations of Rider and his men hung back, knowing a lot of people were going to get hurt.

My precious reputation hangs shaking on your answer.

Britain's reputation hangs on what happens to Hong Kong.

"I'm sorry the whole reputation of a generation hangs on Bill's inability to breathe in," James Carville said.

His reputation hung in the balance.

Conflicts of interests are at work: careers, business and reputations hang on predictions that a given dictator will reform.

His reputation hung on risking death in the very thick of the action.

A museum's reputation may hang on its reliability in such technical matters as these.

My reputation as I go into retirement hangs on your sorry necks.

Like those sentences, the two works on which his reputation so far hangs seem almost willfully obscure.