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.
Paine was vehemently attacked in his own lifetime if the scurrilous biography was not invented for him it certainly attained something of an art form in his depiction.
Even managers at the more staid tech funds have attained something of a celebrity status.
"The hope of attaining something better prevents the migrants from thinking of failure".
Achieving something, attaining something, feeling something.
Robert Talbott has attained something like cult status for his classic, silken pinot noirs and for his chardonnays from the Diamond T and Sleepy Hollow vineyards.
Can you use technical means, such as we have adopted, to attain something like the feel you have for the music of your own lifetime, its stylistic affinities and schisms?
It was then that secular autobiographies — we call them memoirs — first attained something like their contemporary prominence.
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.
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.
"Let children attain something.
