Sentence examples for achieving a sort of from inspiring English sources

The book is sharply plotted and well written, with Kaaro's narration achieving a sort of louche, disengaged charm that throws the story's many weirdnesses into nice relief.

It's not misguided at all to call this band luxurious, its music delivered not with aggression but with the ecstasy that comes with achieving a sort of platonic ideal.

Because of this, Elliot's journey involves not so much a search for meaning as for a way of achieving "a sort of stretching, a deepening of one's ability to stand up to life and absorb it as it happens".

To writer-director Johnny Daukes's credit, the point at which one settles into the linguistic metre arrives pretty early on, achieving a sort of quasi-Chaucerian lilt that is surprisingly easy on the ear.

One day, I see a woman named Alessandra Sublet on television and pronounce her name "sublet," as in what you do to an apartment, achieving a sort of reverse Tar-zhay effect.

But that has not stopped the ghostly neutrinos, which can sail through miles of solid lead with impunity, from achieving a sort of pop culture fame not seen since 1960, when John Updike published a poem about them in The New Yorker: The Earth is just a silly ball To them through which they pass Like dustmaids down a drafty hall Or photons through a sheet of glass.

By the time we meet desperate teenager Evey, about to be brutally punished by undercover policemen, Britain has achieved a sort-of even keel, though one without ethnic minorities, homosexuals, radicals, transgender people.

With that, you have achieved a sort of nucleus.

They have achieved a sort of universality that would probably have pleased the artist.

And while the New Gods died, they nonetheless achieved a sort of Achilles-like immortality.

And then there are those which achieve a sort of splendor through pointlessness.