Sentence examples for lesser achievement from inspiring English sources

Dreiser's second novel, Jennie Gerhardt (1911), is a lesser achievement than Sister Carrie owing to its heroine's comparative lack of credibility.

Also, because these subjects had equal standing with other subjects in the curriculum, I never felt that being good at art was a lesser achievement.

For that matter, even some movies of lesser achievement (such as "American Hustle" and "Her") reflected the will and the ability to create a cinematic world to personal order.

Although a critical and commercial hit, grossing more than $475 million worldwide, Return of the Jedi has, in the decades that followed, been considered by many critics and fans to be a slightly lesser achievement than its predecessors.

If "The Salesman" feels like a lesser achievement than Farhadi's "About Elly," "The Past" and his Oscar-winning masterwork, "A Separation," it may be because it lacks the dizzyingly intricate craftsmanship of those films, which functioned like humanist detective stories: Ingeniously plotted and endlessly multifaceted, they were Hitchcockian thrillers by way of Jean Renoir.

For both high school (Schommer, 1993) and college (Schommer, 1990 , 1993 Hofer, 2000, 2004) students, the sophistication of their epistemological beliefs correlates with their reading comprehension and academic performance, with naïve beliefs linked to lesser achievement.

(Lesser achievements include becoming managing editor of Esquire at 24, and receiving a Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence -- lost, he claims, during that lunch with Hitch).

We take pride in this imperial heritage, pointing with scorn at the lesser achievements of other European powers – the French, Italians, Germans, Belgians and Portuguese – whose empires we variously view as haplessly mismanaged, malignly exploitative and brutally coercive.

Are the Obamas evidence that race-based affirmative action should be continued and encouraged because it has helped produce such a superb couple who would have otherwise been relegated to lesser achievements?

Gioia follows Hooker to the end of his long life with a clear fascination for even some of his lesser achievements, through his '70s recordings with Canned Heat and his Grammy-winning final days.

If "Thriller" sometimes obscured his lesser achievements, it also upstaged his greatest disasters: despite the noise from the child-molestation scandals, his mutating appearance, and his escalating eccentricity, those nine songs — almost all of which were released as singles — were louder.