Sentence examples for almost achieves from inspiring English sources

The second major strength is the balance that the design almost achieves between delicacy and toughness.

Ms. Flon almost achieves for the movie what her character does for her relatives -- she's just not enough.

By cranking up the action and adding a cast of magnetic, capable actors -- the Bruckheimer treatment -- he almost achieves alchemy.

Until its contentious final act, this buoyantly comedic first novel almost achieves the unfathomable: to be a coming-of-age tale devoid of anguish.

A true turkey is a heroic failure, a film that almost achieves greatness, only to falter at the final hurdle and topple over into farce.

A huge slab of devil's food cake, six layers' worth and every one of them dry, makes a wonderful conversation piece, and the banana cream pie almost achieves credibility.

Bjoergen almost achieved it.

It was the joke that almost achieved the impossible.

It closed at $45.08, almost achieving a record high.

"Contact," last year's Tony winner for best musical, almost achieved fashion forwardness.

In fact, the current RAE has, without meaning to, almost achieved this.