But, in his opinion, they were finally achieving equilibrium.
Indeed, the glimpse of finally achieving virtually undisturbed time for my own composition is almost frightening in its seductiveness.
Throneberry's grip on reality was loosening just as her boyfriend was finally achieving a cherished goal: he was becoming popular.
He wasn't very good at it and made about four false starts before finally achieving a perfect alcoholic rainbow.
Levy is finally achieving the recognition she has long deserved – and her imminent book of stories, Black Vodka, will now reach the audience it deserves.
"People called Romanes, they go, the house?" Incensed, he grills Brian on the Latin grammar, finally achieving the correct "Romani ite domum".
It was a big deal for us, still playing every weekend in a bar in Derry and finally achieving what few of our fellow citizens had ever done.
Abandoned by the international community, facing overwhelming odds, they kept going on a potent mixture of sheer determination and caffeine, finally achieving independence in 1991.
I lived off beaver meat and travelled by dog team, finally achieving the way of life that I had dreamed of.
But, as Anthony Page, who directed it in the 1960s, reminded us, it was essentially a Strindbergian play about two people finally achieving contact.
There, it's gentrification breaking up communities; in Hull, it's Tory welfare policies that are finally achieving what years of Luftwaffe bombing couldn't.
