Sentence examples for achieves something like from inspiring English sources

Unless Kokopelli achieves something like the success of its predecessor, the trip may do better apart.

After months of self-torment and vacillation, Dr. Jauhar achieves something like peace.

Finally, he goes to India to stay at an ashram, and here he achieves something like transcendence.

Yet in setting these dark elements to sunny melodies, "The Book of Mormon" achieves something like a miracle.

By David Denby There's one good stretch in "Enemy at the Gates" — one stretch of ten minutes or so when this enormous, violent, but weirdly impacted war movie achieves something like grandeur.

Each time North Korea's defense system achieves something, like its first successful nuclear detonation in 2006, it's told by the US, the UN, or even its closest ally, China, to absolutely not take another step.

Boswell actively helped to stage the life of Johnson that he knew he was going to write drawing out Johnson in conversation, setting up scenes he thought likely to yield rich returns and thus, at moments, he achieved something like the novelist's power over his materials, being himself an active part of what he was to re-create.

We can go round the world — I honestly believe we can achieve something like golf has.

The rationale would be that only Mr. Holbrooke could somehow achieve something like that.

By the end of the night, the party had achieved something like actual holiday gaiety.

"I never thought in my career I would achieve something like this," he said.