To fixate upon this or that fugitive datum, or upon the technical details of how the CDs might have been concocted, was to overlook Barry's grander accomplishment.
Grand accomplishments in railroad building lent themselves well to pictorial themes.
The Port Authority's reputation then reflected the grand accomplishments of an agency that one historian has called a "tethered empire".
But Pletcher, 35, has had some grand accomplishments himself in the six years he has operated his own stable: a trainers' title here in 1998 and two from the Belmont spring/summer meet, including the most recent one, in which his 30 victories distanced him from a pack of rivals.
Barré-Sinoussi and Gallo were joined by 125 other luminaries in the HIV/AIDS field who traveled here for this 3-day get together to recount the bad old days and their grand accomplishments.
His father, Arie Bodek, is an award-winning physicist whose work was instrumental in finding the quark, one of the grandest accomplishments in contemporary science.
The SOTU usually reflects on grand accomplishments and offers a rosy projection for the future -- an attempt to inspire the American people and the assembled members of Congress.
We toy with the idea of inflating our accomplishments in life in case we are confronted with tales of grand accomplishments from those we never imagined would get a job outside the local burger joint.
"The scale of this painting speaks to the grand accomplishments made by these four women and the example they set for future generations," museum director Kim Sajet said of the portrait.
In the hands of Jonah Winter and Ana Juan, this seems a grand accomplishment, worth celebrating.
