Sentence examples for and sometimes achieving from inspiring English sources

But the women and men longing for, and sometimes achieving, carnal bliss (with their own sex as well as the opposite) do so in the midst of preparing to perform the story of the crucifixion.

Aspiring to (and sometimes achieving) the zing of prime Neil Simon and blessed with one of the catchiest TV theme songs ever, the weekly playlets on "Love American Style" gave stars of the medium's squeaky-clean years the opportunity to deal with more provocative material.

The veggie-burger pendulum of peril swings between too dry and too wet, and sometimes, achieving the right balance of moisture and texture has to do with knowing which seeds, nuts and vegetables to mash and which ones to leave whole.

Irrigating the brain directly with ice water and sometimes achieving solid parenchymal freezing, he claimed 'extremely gratifying results' in a paper on 'local and generalized refrigeration of the human brain'.

Sexual frustrations and fantasies are voiced; empowerment is discussed and sometimes achieved; men are made to look bad.

Its younger members, including the nieces and nephews among them who have tried for and sometimes achieved elected office, have settled quietly into lives of service; they are not, for the moment, a threat to anybody else's ambitions.

I spent years battling my desire for success, sometimes achieving it and then losing it like my father.

This tactic has had mixed results from Israel's point of view, sometimes achieving its goal and sometimes not.

Policy is made by addressing the conflicts between the interest groups who could influence it—sometimes achieving full compromise and sometimes favoring the politically stronger interest groups.

Sometimes achieving the desired level of seed and tannin ripeness requires far more "hang time" on the vine, resulting in much sweeter grapes than in decades past.

But whether he is paying obeisance to Robert Bresson or anatomising the visceral effects of Speed, what Lane communicates is a conviction, even if it is desperate, that movies aspire to and do sometimes achieve the condition of art, and that all those billions of dollars can occasionally distil something pure, shining and true.