Sentence examples for shining accomplishment from inspiring English sources

"Gove had unveiled the great shining accomplishment of his life," Mr. Skinner says.

"If there is no dark and dogged will, there will be no shining accomplishment; if there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement" goes an old saying, invoked as soon as school starts — a far cry from the Western progressive interest in encouraging curiosity and play in the early years.

In substance and in symbol, settling District Six, with the sentimental attachment so many have to it, was special, and with local elections in just over a week, the occasion gave President Mbeki and his governing party, the African National Congress, a shining accomplishment to show off.

Free primary education had been considered one of the government's few shining accomplishments.

"Your acceptance into Harvard is one of the shining accomplishments of my life," she said, "and I'll be damned if I see you give it away".

It will be a welcome strengthening of a foreign aid program that was already one of the shining accomplishments of the Bush administration.

If completed, they would join a few shining accomplishments: a handsome refurbished red-brick former industrial shell that houses both offices and rentals, at 21 Ann Street, a onetime corset factory; and a three-building new-construction condo-and-rental complex called the Maritime Yards.

In music, those who most pleased pundits (Kendrick Lamar's rap debut may prove to be the year's shining musical accomplishment) and runaway commercial hits (a still-young Taylor Swift had million-unit week) were signs of life in an industry that's been falling apart for over a decade.

Philadelphia's city center will be on display for conventioneers as a shining image of accomplishment.

The guests, my friends, were delightful - intelligent and, shining with health and accomplishment, all of them residents of this little paradise and suitably impressed with my bungaloid version of Xanadu.

When you look at someone else's shining educational and professional accomplishments, it's easy to feel that the person in question is far more impressive than yourself.