Sentence examples for acquired something from inspiring English sources

Yet the enlightenment has acquired something of a bad name.

After Sept. 11, 2001, "The Clash of Civilizations" acquired something like a prophetic authority.

The museum acknowledges this is the first time that it has acquired something that "cannot be had".

Perhaps Great Man history was dead, but Hobsbawm himself acquired something of the aura of a great man.

And he has only just acquired something that passes for an office, behind a paint shop in South London.

Because of the laid-back attitude of Portland, the project has acquired something of a foreign-film feel.

And at every stage we acquire something.

Thus he acquires something of the aura of a guru.

To kill; to go to such efforts to acquire something useless, is just baffling".

A playwright of growing downtown renown, Ms. Skillman seems to be acquiring something suspiciously Midtown: polish.

Once people acquire something they want, their goals change, and they desire something new.