Sentence examples for minor prize from inspiring English sources

He received his first important notice in '48, in connection with a minor prize, the Prix de la Jeune Peinture, which he did not win.

Of course, there is the likelihood that Beyoncé will win Best Rock Performance, or another minor prize like Best Urban Contemporary Album, only as a consolation prize for losing to Adele in the major categories.

(The programs entered in the Loebner Prize Competition are designed solely with the aim of winning the minor prize of best competitor for the year, with no thought that the embodied strategies would actually yield something capable of passing the Turing Test).

32 Respondents who replied within 10 weeks were offered the chance to enter a minor prize draw (five prizes of value NZ$100).

If you go for the major prize, tilt slowly over the minor prize hole.

"Avatar" slunk away with three minor prizes, and "District 9," an exemplary piece of low-budget inventiveness, with none.

There is a strong danger that the Booker will become viewed as a minor American prize, of some small interest when it, as usual, goes to an American writer, otherwise bafflingly open to a lot of strange foreigners, who thankfully never win.

And over the full term of the season he might be reasonably content with a 59-20 log, three minor titles, prize money of more than $3m and climbing back to No6 in the world from the relative depths of No12 two months ago.

Hensher fears the Booker will become viewed as a minor American award, but the prize's chairman, Jonathan Taylor, said a failure to change the rules would be like not allowing China into the Olympics.

In an article for Time, music journalist Touré elaborated on the album's acclaim, called West's nominations in minor categories "booby prizes", and stated, "MBDTF is by far the best reviewed album in many years: the critical community flipped out over it like nothing since Radiohead's zenith.

The most memorable characters in "The Prize" are minor, the artists who behave badly and perform their lives with energy.