Sentence examples for small winner from inspiring English sources

A CRITIC AT LARGE about Machado de Assis, 19th-century Brazilian author of "Epitaph of a Small Winner".

Buoyant and observant, "50/50" is a small winner; the director, Jonathan Levine ("The Wackness"), has a great touch, mordant but light-handed.

The New Yorker, May 7 , 1990P. 102 A CRITIC AT LARGE about Machado de Assis, 19th-century Brazilian author of "Epitaph of a Small Winner".

Sterne's digressions — also used by the many he influenced, among them Denis Diderot in "Jacques the Fatalist and His Master" and the Brazilian Machado de Assis in "Epitaph for a Small Winner" — were one way.

Mr. Lieberman was another small winner, bringing his Russian-oriented party into fourth place, and could end up as a member of the governing coalition or as the opposition leader.

By Susan Sontag The New Yorker, May 7 , 1990P. 102 A CRITIC AT LARGE about Machado de Assis, 19th-century Brazilian author of "Epitaph of a Small Winner".

The first feature written by Mr. Connolly and directed by Colin Trevorrow, "Safety Not Guaranteed" won the Waldo Salt screenwriting award at the Sundance Film Festival, and it is a small-scale winner.

Mr. Peretz was one of the small winners of the election, because Labor kept 20 seats, close to Kadima's 28.

Joe Fazz, 53, a court officer who works across the street, cleaned out a mound of betting tickets in his Forest Hills home — "shorties," he called them, or small winners — and brought them to the parlor on Monday.

A fiasco ensued as big companies skirted the rules to land the licenses for themselves, and small winners like NextWave went bankrupt before they could pay the FCC.

After three years, large winners are more like likely to file bankruptcy than small winners.