Perhaps that helps explain why Mr. Cotterill has begun an entirely new series about a sardonic, self-important "almost award-winning" female crime reporter, Jimm Juree.
Pulitzer judges almost awarded two posthumous prizes.
They would preclude the New Mexico scenario, where the state's electors were almost awarded to Gov. George W. Bush because one ballot counter initially misread a handwritten "620" on a tally sheet of Gore votes as "120".
DURING a career that spanned nearly five decades, James Ingram Merrill received almost every award that can be bestowed upon a poet, including the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
These, known as the Pittsburgh Cycle, earned Wilson almost every award a playwright can win.
As a young man, he was a flamenco prodigy, winning almost every award going.
Now 22, O'Donnell has 53 international caps and almost every award a field hockey player can win.
And for all the winks to high-tech and salaams to old actors and classic movies like "Gone With the Wind" and "Casablanca" (the "As Time Goes By" theme song was introduced by President Obama in a taped message), Sunday's ceremony, like almost all award shows, came down to a battle of winners and losers.
I think I'd be more excited by that stamp of approval than almost any award short of an Oscar.
It might have to since Alfonso Cuaron has won almost every award thrown at him since "Gravity" debuted in October, but many still expect "12 Years A Slave" to win Best Picture.
Almost all awards in China in the fields of literature, art, news and culture are administered within state-approved boundaries.
