Sentence examples for lasting merit from inspiring English sources
It's not just that it takes time to uncover lasting merit, but most awards are arrived at by a kind of horse-swapping procedure wherein nobody's true favorite is likely to win.
His songs had such lasting merit that more than half a dozen of them have earned a prominent place in the catalogue of all-time rock standards, and are still hitting the charts today in such grisly guises as Showaddywaddy's Heartbeat.
In "The Art of an Unknown Future" in the Times Literary Supplement in 1955, shortly after the government legislation banning horror comics, George Mikes reflected on claims by some pundits that "this new form of expression is capable of creating – indeed, has already created – works of lasting merit".
Though emotionally understandable, it is too subjective to sustain any lasting merit.
Swed recalled the opera's reception in 1987 while reviewing the Metropolitan Opera's 2011 production: An opera that was belittled in 1987 by major New York critics – as a CNN Opera of no lasting merit when Houston Grand Opera premiered it – has clearly remained relevant.
Two of the lasting merits of Propertius seem to have impressed the ancients themselves.
And as for South Korean democracy, there was nothing substantive and lasting to merit the name for over 40 years.
Did it win for lasting creative merit, or sheer popularity, as evidenced by box office?
His young companion, Russell (voiced by Jordan Nagai), is a "Wilderness Explorer" working on his last merit badge, "assisting the elderly".
It is evident that the last merits of EMM will be more predominant if the total number of substructures attached to the main structure is large.
The terrible secret of the true-crime section is that most of its contents are trash; only a paltry selection of what's on offer there is of lasting historical importance or literary merit, but the classics, some of which are listed here, are among the most memorable, terrifying and indispensable books ever written.
