Sentence examples for pure triumph from inspiring English sources

The Eugene McCarthy mutiny in the Democratic Party in 1968 was, as the great critic Wilfred Sheed wrote at the time, a pure triumph of "Commonweal Catholicism".

The announcement this past April that Mr. Lelyveld would succeed Max Frankel as executive editor on July 1st was greeted inside the Times as a pure triumph of merit.

It's not, in its present form or even in this ideal incarnation, a pure triumph of personal auteurist conception — certainly not one that's based in an original sense of cinematic style or form — but, rather, a minor masterwork of synergy between actor and director.

Ironically, last week should have been a time of pure triumph for European science: after travelling four billion miles, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft delivered its Philae lander to the surface of a comet as it streaked by, more than three hundred million miles from Earth.

It's not, in its present form or even in this ideal incarnation, a pure triumph of personal auteurist conception certainly not one that's based in an original sense of cinematic style or form but, rather, a minor masterwork of synergy between actor and director.

Forty years ago, Annie Hall's Best Picture and Best Director Oscars would've felt like a pure triumph for charming, intelligent filmmaking even, one suspects, among some of the feminists who'd found Philip Roth's sex-obsessed bestseller Portnoy's Complaint alienating.

Donoghue has created one of the pure triumphs of recent fiction: an ebullient child narrator, held captive with his mother in an 11-by-11-foot 11-by-11-foot 11-by-11-foot 11-by-11-footy, often complicated space between closeness and autonomy.

Jack's voice is one of the pure triumphs of the novel: in him, she has invented a child narrator who is one of the most engaging in years — his voice so pervasive I could hear him chatting away during the day when I wasn't reading the book.

In other supposed renditions of a dancer, pure abstraction triumphs.

Universities, seeking both pure research triumphs and business for their hospitals, are working hard on pieces of the system, too.

We should absolutely be proud of all the achievements we have made as pure human triumphs – if we can work out how to completely banish the Big C to history, then well done us.