Sentence examples for formal achievement from inspiring English sources

While the formal achievement of a sentence like this is impressive, it's an empty one.

We have precedents for heinous personal beliefs coinciding with creative brilliance (Ezra Pound, Richard Wagner), and bigotry embodied in works of great formal achievement ("The Birth of a Nation," "Triumph of the Will"), but this is an unusual case of an artist's ideological extremism so suddenly exposed, and so plainly relevant to his art.

Hume even implies that the vulgar do not attend to "eloquence" and similar formal achievement.

Choosing the same actor to play both roles was both a formal achievement and probably a major headache.

In a neat formal achievement, then, the movie has managed to take the same sophisticated approach Wallace took in his writing and applied it to a movie about David Foster Wallace.

Without government intervention to increase expenditure, an economy can remain trapped in a low employment equilibrium – the demonstration of this possibility has been described as the revolutionary formal achievement of the work.

But for all its excesses and technical and formal achievements, "Intolerance" remains less known than its inflammatory predecessor.

For Rosenberg, art reflected an individualistic attempt by an artist to express himself, rather than simply to build on the formal achievements of those before him.

So does the prismatic sky of "Paris Through the Window," though the painting's mythic creatures (among them a parachutist, a Janus figure and a cat with a human face) overshadow its formal achievements.

Modern art began and flourished in Paris and the Bloomsbury art picked up on the Fauves' bold use of color and the formal achievements of Cezanne, Picasso and Matisse -- but the new license was often used with an awkward abandon.

The danger, as I see it, is that its many formal achievements – including its lean storytelling, exceptional performances (Audiard is among the finest directors of actors now working), and vibrant, often stunningly beautiful images – could blind a viewer to its demagoguery.