Though Mr. Wagoner never achieved the sort of country music sainthood accorded Hank Williams, Johnny Cash or Willie Nelson, his pure adherence to traditional forms became esteemed.
Chilean sea bass would not have eclipsed the catfish if it were still known as the Patagonian toothfish, nor would orange roughy have become so esteemed as the slimehead.
Guides Joanne and Guides Bleus have become an esteemed French national institution, effusively praised by Jacques Chirac in 1991 on their 150th anniversary and minutely deconstructed by the intellectual Roland Barthes in his classic book of essays, "Mythologies" (1957).
Will someone please explain how it became so esteemed if it is so unreadable?
In this week's issue and here online (see The Critics), Louis Menand discusses H. W. Fowler's "Dictionary of Modern English Usage," the idiosyncratic reference that grew out of the Oxford English Dictionary and became an esteemed work in its own right.
Galanis soon became an esteemed presence for his coaching at the club and one November 2003 evening Lloyd's father approached Galanis on the sideline as the autumn rain drizzled down.
On his watch, Luxembourg assumed and held on to notoriety as the EU's top tax haven; or in the politically correct language of the country's finance minister, it became an esteemed "centre of finance".
Quietistic elements have been discerned in several religious movements, both Christian and non-Christian, through the centuries; but the term is usually identified with the doctrine of Miguel de Molinos, a Spanish priest who became an esteemed spiritual director in Rome during the latter half of the 17th century and whose teachings were condemned as heretical by the Roman Catholic Church.
When Sean Connery stopped doing the rug-bearing James Bond role and started doing fringe-only parts, he became an esteemed actor.
At the time of his death, Carl had become an esteemed and successful artist on his own terms, without compromise or regret.
