From the first, it seems, Eva's son had a malevolent, alien quality – and the movie gradually attains something of the overt, if realist cuckoo-in-the-nest scariness of the likes of Rosemary's Baby, The Village of the Damned or even The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.
The experts in these communities can attain something of a god-like status to worshipping noobs and junior members who get thoughtful and detailed answers to their many questions.
If we're to believe most of what we see on TV these days, the love for actually attaining something of value, something of substance, has been replaced with the love to feed the ego and the lust to feel important and better than.
With the massive stone image of Lincoln gazing out over her, with a host of powerful white men seated at her feet senators, Cabinet members, Supreme Court Justices and with a bank of microphones arrayed in front of her, Anderson attained something greater than fame: for an instant, she became a figure of quasi-political power.
During the spring election Layton attained something rare: the true fear of his Conservative opponents.
It seems reasonable to assume that he attained something so close to the highest aspirations of his youth that, as far as acting was concerned, he had no other goals — and no conflicts.
More important, however, was his form in the longest version of the game, in which he had attained something like a peak.
In the days since a grand jury failed to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, the outcry for police reform has attained something rare in this day and age: staying power.
If you attained something then you were going to be first".
