Sentence examples for questionable success from inspiring English sources

Florence Foster Jenkins may feature Streep being lowered bleating from the ceiling dressed as "a very naughty Walkyrie", and a career-best performance from Hugh Grant as her husband, St Clair Bayfield, an ex-thesp who promotes her questionable success.

Beatrice wants to play roles on stage, but even more she wants to take action, to become a potent being who can separate her psychic life from that of her controlling parents, a goal she achieves with questionable success.

The program, which was launched after the 2016 presidential election and involves independent news organizations flagging fake news on the site, has had questionable success over the last year.

By then I was no longer sanguine about rehabilitation, but in spite of our experience and the questionable success rates, there seemed to be nothing more effective for meth addiction.

The Sex Pistols were a manufactured band who couldn't play their instruments, sing in tune or play live ; they relied entirely on shock value, reputation & hype to fuel their questionable success in the form of several lucrative record contracts before they disappeared from the scene.

Half an hour later, between soothing us with earthy tales accompanied by twinkling keyboards and trickling guitars, he has articulated his beliefs on the questionable success of laser eye-treatment, dealt with a with heckler and admitted to messing up a song.

Some of Anish Kapoor's ventures into gigantism have been questionable successes.

But it may be hard for North Korea to find a buyer; tests of its plutonium warheads have been a questionable technical success, and their uranium-enrichment program may not be advanced enough to make them an attractive seller.

The term "successful" is questionable since the "success" is determined solely by the group doing the eradication -- Island Conservation.

While it is questionable how much success in business prepares a person for success in the White House (Herbert Hoover was the last president with notable success as a businessperson), it is important to understand that Mr. Romney is not a successful business person in the same way as other people who have built successful companies.

So, rather than serving as guardians of ethical standards, these institutions are often complicit in student cheating, then further manipulate data to meet questionable benchmarks of success.