But Boeing's outward success concealed lingering problems.
As the President and his aides have consistently noted, this campaign is not likely to end with a quick, surgical success — the lingering fantasy of the Gulf War — but will instead be prolonged, complicated, often hidden, and at times, perhaps, plagued by failure and loss.
The later has propelled the continent into a path towards success, despite lingering perceptions of the regions fragility.
It's 2014, and yet moldy old formulas for career success are lingering well past their expiration dates.
The nightclubs of the Hamptons have long been the playground of the rich and the well connected, where 21-year-olds drive $80,000 sports cars and scoff at $800 bar tabs, and the sweet smell of success lingers in the air.
While people here do not begrudge Sydney its success, there are lingering suspicions that the Australian Olympic Committee did not push as hard for Melbourne as for Sydney.
Sheena Joughin in the Sunday Telegraph agreed: "This is a gripping, psychologically complex achievement, whose greatest success is its lingering sense of unease.
When a setback arises in my business and I feel self-doubt creeping in, I focus on the evidence of success instead of lingering in the fear.
Moving forward, the question beyond why Anthony tuned out D'Antoni is whether he has enough character to walk that behavioral tightrope for Woodson in the many fragile moments to come when the Knicks linger between success and circus.
The current Broadway success of "Moon" and the lingering high of last season's "Iceman Cometh," is a most reaffirming paradox.
Logan was genuinely great, while Wonder Woman's success should have demolished any lingering Hollywood skepticism about action movies directed by and starring women.
