Sentence examples for close to deserving from inspiring English sources

But Fischer comes as close to deserving the label of a creative genius as a chess player can.

There is no way in hell that The Breakfast Club comes close to deserving the title of best high school movie of all time.

With Ms. McCollough's tough, believable performance as Jolene, there's little question that from the play's point of view she did act in self-defense and doesn't come close to deserving the death penalty.

However, when he turned his attention to Jacobs' book, Mumford was disappointed: Whereas "Sense and Sensibility" could have been the title of her Harvard talk, what she sets forth in "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" comes close to deserving the secondary title of "Pride and Prejudice".

He suggests that the American who comes closest to deserving the "comic public intellectual" crown is Cavett, the former talk show host.

It includes some small oil portraits and powerful examples of Freud's work in etching (which isn't exactly drawing but is close enough to deserve our scrutiny here, some five years after the Museum of Modern Art's "Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings" established his mastery of the medium).

"When Zuma talks about the good that Madiba did, but fails to emulate Madiba himself, let alone coming close to that, he deserved what came his way," Malphia Honwane of Manyeleti said in a letter to the mass-circulation Daily Sun, referring to Mandela by his clan name.

I wasn't a good writer – what I'd done was full of flaws and holes and silliness – but somebody qualified had read my work and thought it had enough merit to deserve close examination.

And I would write a letter to Juli's parents, who are far more gracious and compassionate people than I can ever hope to be, and express that even though this man chose not to treat their daughter and my friend with anything close to the dignity she deserved, he has been treated with the dignity that all human beings deserve.

Gentileschi achieved something so unlikely, so close to impossible, that she deserves to be one of the most famous artists in the world.

These Greek heroes may be great fighters, but their talk of honor and immortality wears thin since not many come close to the first or deserve the second.