Sentence examples for lesser achievements from inspiring English sources

(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.

Having already negotiated the Sibelius symphonies for Naxos, Petri Sakari and the Iceland Symphony complement their cycle with a useful collection of tone poems, which mixes the three finest - En Saga, Pohjola's Daughter and Tapiola - with the lesser achievements of The Oceanides and The Bard.

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.