He'd had one lovely, fluky success, but laborious effort had failed to produce anything further.
"Success is lovely, but it does stick in an annoying way," she said.
He has everything he wants: his lovely third wife Stella, success, health.
I'd say the source of Littlewood's genius, and one of the reasons for Oh What a Lovely War's instant success, was her ability to combine a European aestheticism with a deeply English love of popular theatre.
The Academy's relatively small directors' branch (just 200 of around 6,000 voters) may have felt that Ben Affleck – already blessed with good looks, success, a lovely family, enviable facial hair and, lest we forget, an Oscar for writing Good Will Hunting – didn't need a best director award into the bargain, but Hollywood disagreed.
The one lovely thing about the success of the Eurovision is the countries then invite you to come and perform.
It's counterintuitive, but qualities that make you likable and popular in real life — good looks, wild success, happy marriage, lovely home, healthy confidence — will make a reader despise you.
That Mr. King's "From a Buick 8," which came out at No. 1 earlier this month, fell to No. 2 after only one week is a particularly striking crystallization of the success of "The Lovely Bones".
As should be evident now, there's a lot more to Smith's success than a lovely voice, sad lyrics, a collection of trenchcoats and a pointy haircut..
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