Sentence examples for close to triumph from inspiring English sources

In the endless ballot examinations and courtroom wrangling of the last month, he had never felt this close to triumph.

Those who did — a few couples up front, a group of men in back — sat transfixed, at times rising halfway out of their seats, calling out "Vamos," or clasping their hands as if in prayer when either team came close to triumph or disaster.

That the results feel so primal yet so self-aware makes Grotjahn's show something close to a triumph.

In these days of arguments over voting, a duck is probably as close to a triumph the UK will get.

Instead, it is very close to a triumph – a film that fans of the old movies will relish but one that looks bound to capture the imagination of a new audience, too.

That the results feel so primal yet so self-aware makes Grotjahn's show something close to a triumph.__ A note to the art lovers lining up at Gagosian to see "Picasso and Marie-Thérèse, L'Amour Fou": when you're done, walk one block south.

That the results feel so primal yet so self-aware makes Grotjahn's show something close to a triumph.__ Andrea K. Scott is the art editor of Goings On About Town and has profiled the artists Cory Arcangel and Sarah Sze for the magazine.

With one particular stock he was close to sheer triumph, when Inspire Insurance Solutions of Ft. Worth, up 154% for most of the year, took a dive in December and finished up 32%.

Morgenthau's closest approach to triumph came at Quebec in the fall of 1944, when Roosevelt pressed Churchill to consider the draconian "Morgenthau plan".

For its first 150 pages, Autobiography comes close to being a triumph.

In a century of competition, no Turkish team has even come close to such a triumph.