George Clooney referred to last week's deadly terrorist attacks in Paris in his Cecil B DeMille lifetime achievement award acceptance speech at the 2015 Golden Globes.
He also describes how Smibert reconciled the conflicts between his search for spiritual well-being brought about by his Scottish Presbyterian heritage and his struggle for artistic achievement, social acceptance, and financial security.
But, I figured, if all went according to my carefully hatched plan, I could graduate with all my "to do" boxes neatly checked off, my teachers impressed if not wowed, and the ultimate achievement: an acceptance letter from the Ivy League college of my choice.
After so many disappointments, the sight of an Argentine thriving in the N.B.A. and playing a crucial role in the playoffs has come as balm to people here, reawakening dreams of achievement and acceptance that the sporting press is eager to exploit.
The Oscar-winning actress' use of her lifetime achievement award acceptance at the Golden Globes in January to focus on political issues rather than her own career electrified both the crowd in the Beverly Hilton's ballroom and audiences watching around the world.
Most achievement and acceptance is about hard work.
Their new faith brings about a loosening of their striving, an acknowledgment of limits, a dedication to humble achievements, an acceptance of second place.
Gordy poured all his energy and money into what has been his most dramatic social achievement: getting universal acceptance, by means of Diana Ross, of the idea that black is beautiful.
Mr. Grubin, whose team spent three years making the film, examines more or less chronologically the alternating periods of acceptance, achievement and virulent discrimination faced by Jews; the spread of Jewish culture into the wider American mainstream; and the ways in which Jewish religious traditions have been adapted to American life.
In the sociological literature, Inbar and Adler ([1976]) were the first to empirically study the relationship between age at arrival and scholastic achievement, defined as acceptance to institutions of higher education.
