Spall went to great lengths to get his drawing and painting right, and sort of succeeds.
"I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded," she has said.
Some very clever good guys did their best to contain a program made by some very clever bad guys and they sort of succeeded.
The latter's pummelling post-punk answered in the affirmative one other question: would just this sort of act succeed in Derry, as in Dingle, because of the contrast between the intimacy of the surroundings and their noisenik shtick?
Whether this sort of response succeeds remains a matter for debate.
He's the sort-of editor who succeeded the Telegraph's last actual editor, Tony Gallagher, after Tony got dumped in the Seiken psychodrama and went back to his Daily Mail roots.
These aren't the sort of drives that succeed because of a broken play or two, or a missed tackle, blown assignment, what have you.
Already this sort of work has succeeded with an entirely new type of drug to lower levels of LDL, or "bad" cholesterol, he said.
Vian's great novel, "L'Écume des Jours," written in 1946, has become one of the most popular books in all of twentieth-century French literature, making Vian, in France, the sort of hero whom succeeding generations transform into an institution.
"This is exactly the sort of branding that succeeds these days," says Pettett. "There's a real backlash against these out of town supermarket chains and the way they damage local businesses.
