Sentence examples for achieved stature from inspiring English sources

Just when musicians were exploding the category of jazz -- whether through Ornette Coleman's quest for freedom or the humorous eclecticism of Rahsaan Roland Kirk -- the music achieved stature as art music worthy of repertory.

By the end, one feels that Patrick has achieved stature and human dimensions through his struggle to reclaim Henry, and that Henry's illness has brought them both to a depth of filial understanding that – though they would never have chosen this path – they could not otherwise have known.

German dramatists of the later part of the 18th century achieved stature through a quite different type of play: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich von Schiller, and others of the passionate, poetic Sturm und Drang ("Storm and Stress") movement tried to echo the more romantic tendencies in Shakespeare's plays.

The captain, Charlotte Edwards, meanwhile has achieved the stature of Strauss.

In the visual arts, though, he long ago achieved monumental stature.

Now that important modern architecture has finally achieved iconic stature, this is especially painful.

That diabase cliff rock may have never achieved the stature of, say, granite.

Later, he achieved heroic stature by his part in exposing the fraud that he had helped to perpetuate.

Caijing, he said, had achieved a stature that put it out of reach of lower-ranking bureaucrats.

Carnegie Hall achieved its stature through architectural beauty; its warm, revealing acoustics; and a growing heritage of magnificent performances.

David and Hammond's efforts paid off handsomely for New York, as the park achieved iconic stature even before it opened.