Sentence examples for eccentric achievement from inspiring English sources

The tension between art and commerce remains -- between the academy's urge to anoint box-office success and its desire to recognize more eccentric achievement.

Nauman's eccentric achievement with holograms is symptomatic of his larger body of work, both in the refined handling of unexpected materials and in the uncanny way he cuts through clotted artistic issues of the day.

His prose style is eccentric and his achievement uneven.

If you think St Endellion's achievement eccentric, the magnificent Wagnerian achievement at Longborough Festival Opera in the Cotswolds is only marginally less so.

Of course, there is a long history of successful entrepreneurs, industrialists, and self-made billionaires who stood out equally for their talents and achievements and their eccentric, difficult, or volatile personalities.

There was, of course, an occasional exception when owners came into the public eye because of the achievements of their club or their own eccentric behavior.

Given that it was actually a short-lived and semi-nomadic school of design and art with the usual riot of individualists, visionaries, eccentrics, schemers and geniuses that such places attract, this appearance of unity was an achievement.

Last year's "Mad Mad: Fury Road" remains a crowning achievement; it's essentially a two-hour car chase with more souped-up vehicles, eccentric characters and crazy camera angles than anything previously attempted in cinema.

This is an extraordinary achievement for a party that for much of its 20-year history has been comically disorganised, eccentric, and paralysed by infighting.

Vvedensky belongs to an eccentric cohort of poets normally referred to by the acronym "OBERIU," widely considered among the most important (and baffling) achievements of the Russian avant-garde.

From an eccentric Jewish Texan family of compulsive record keepers — their father maintained a four-page list of his life's achievements — Marie became a New York liberal, Carl a diehard conservative who abandoned a legal career to farm apples.