The album sounds lived in and well earned — love isn't a one-night stand on a truck tailgate, and drinking and smoking are a life's work.
(Sisario) ★ KANYE WEST, RIHANNA (Tuesday) Having collected an armful of Grammys and racked up double-platinum sales for his most recent release, "Graduation" (Roc-A-Fella), Kanye West has a now-legendary immodesty that is, in fact, well earned.
In its later acts, such authenticity is ditched in favour of (well earned) poetic licence, yet for all its creative departures the most remarkable elements of this story remain those that are actually "real" – you honestly couldn't make this stuff up.
Nepalis could be forgiven for being uncertain of what lies in store.The country's constituent assembly voted to abolish King Gyanendra's house by 560 votes to 4. The king's unpopularity, among assembly members and the ordinary Nepalis who elected them in April, was well earned.
Mr. Buarque's writing style is strikingly different in the two realms, but his reputation is well earned in both.
But the movie doesn't really ask you to pity these guys; they feel sorry enough for themselves already, and their misery seems well earned in any case.
Their distinction in the Thomson Reuters report, and in the marketplace, has been well earned.
Aboul-Ghar's reputation in pro-democracy politics is well earned.
But its longevity is well earned, and in an age of ceaseless special effects, its low-tech feel is unexpectedly energizing.
Pacquiao deserves to be the favourite this weekend, though, and his "best pound-for-pound in the world" tag is well earned.
After James connected on three straight 3-pointers in the fourth quarter to extend Cleveland's lead to 113-88, he sat down and draped himself in warm-ups, a rest well earned with 4 minutes 58 seconds left and the game long decided.
