Mom nurtured our independence and took pride in our accomplishments, yet was modest about her own.
I brought along a printed list of my accomplishments, yet I couldn't help but feel boastful saying them out loud.
Prodigies can be a pain, onscreen and off, and Elio — fevered with boyish uncertainties and thrills, though no longer a boy, and already rich in adult accomplishments, yet barely a man — should be an impossible role.
"What have you accomplished there, anyway?" And my mother, protective of my brother, scolded my father and reminded her son of his accomplishments, yet added: "But it's enough, isn't it?
I turned into the Stella Dallas of baseball, clutching the fence behind the backstop with tears in my eyes, so proud of my son's accomplishments, yet unable to be part of his new world.
The global eradication of smallpox ranks as one of humankind's greatest accomplishments yet many viral challenges remain.
Micro-level studies with families or individuals as research units have yielded abundant accomplishments, yet top urban macro-level factors with the highest energy consumption impact have not been identified.
Is it just a generational thing, this lament about the single person who can lay claim to astounding accomplishments, yet is pitied for being single?
Our nation and our coalition are proud of this accomplishment - yet, it is you, the members of the United States military, who achieved it.
Universal's latest accomplishment marks yet another success for a studio that seemed to be going nowhere several years ago.
