His players paraded the Europa League trophy on the pitch after securing third place here, both achievements that would normally merit acclaim, but the interim manager remained inside while his coaching staff joined the joyous throng out on the turf.
The real shame was how VAR intruded on the acclaim Albion merited for attacking Liverpool in the first half, dominating central midfield and defending stoutly in the second as the hosts pressed in vain for a recovery.
At first glance, the book would hardly seem to merit such broad acclaim.
It appears that the "Titanic" and "Terminator 2" director, whose films often put tough women at the center of the action, doesn't think that Gal Gadot's character was complicated or groundbreaking enough to merit so much acclaim -- $800 million at the worldwide box office aside.
"He spawned a new breed of writers who wanted to write books that connected to the average Indian reader and didn't care about literary merit and acclaim.
Return visits are merited.
Indeed, the wide acclaim for Mr. Reagan's selection of William Rehnquist and Antonin Scalia for Supreme Court vacancies shows the Senate values merit more than ideology.
The buzzy pair of Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington, who caught worldwide acclaim in 2011 as part of psychedelic experimental rock outfit, Darkside may not yet have the careers of those tag-teams icons of pop culture, but their presence was still powerful enough to merit considerable attention on each of them since the group's split.
He initially became known, of course, as the son of Gérard Depardieu, but he earned acclaim entirely on his own merits, whether as Pierre in Leos Carax's "Pola X" or as General de Montriveau in Jacques Rivette's "The Duchess of Langeais".
Though publishers of fiction recognize certain obligations to art, even when these are unprofitable (as they usually are), they are impelled for the most part to regard the novel as a commercial property and to be better pleased with large sales of indifferent work than with the mere unremunerative acclaim of the intelligentsia for books of rare merit.
