By 1998, he was attracting acclaim.
Walcott, winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature, last year attracted acclaim for his latest collection White Egrets, which won this year's TS Eliot poetry prize.
By all accounts, Brit director Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave is a sterling piece of work; but that isn't the only reason it's attracting acclaim.
When his art, which went almost entirely unsold in his lifetime, started to attract acclaim after his death, this painter of dazzling yellows and hallucinatory blues became seen as cursed by some desperate, mysterious inner pain.
His work, particularly with women who have suffered fistulas, has attracted acclaim, awards and millions of dollars from individuals and organisations around the world.This notoriety has also given Dr Mukwege a platform from which to speak his mind, and he is often critical of those in power.
Watson's co-star Daniel Radcliffe had been attracting acclaim for his stage work, while it seemed that Rupert Grint, who played Ron Weasley, would be the first to light up the sky, post-Potter: a news story claiming that Martin Scorsese had predicted great things for Grint turned out to be fabricated but, more importantly, not in the least bit implausible.
Despite the decline in numbers, she said the UK film industry had a "creative confidence" with films like Philomena, The Selfish Giant and Rush attracting acclaim and awards success.
Norfolk's efforts to revitalize its downtown have attracted acclaim from economic development and urban planning circles throughout the country.
The market attracts nationally acclaimed Indian potters, jewelers, basket weavers and other artisans as well as some 15,000 spectators.
The need for audience approval has led to innovations as well as some decadence in its impact on the musical scene: innovation, if the performer is led to discover imaginative and fresh means of attracting public acclaim; decadence, if the devices for audience attraction become cheap and thinly spectacular, when the performer may distract the audience from more deserving work and debase its taste.
