Admittedly, his reputation rests on one film - but what a movie.

Her reputation rests on a relatively small body of work, fewer than 350 poems.

By profession, he was a mechanical engineer and civil servant, but his reputation rests on his achievements as an amateur astronomer, particularly as a selenographer.

My reputation rests on four magazines three great successes, one that was a great experiment.

For the most part, then, his reputation rests on his posthumously published work, retrieved from oblivion page by page.