Sentence examples for strange achievement from inspiring English sources

A strange achievement for a band once considered part of the "nu-rave" scene.

It says something about Volpi's strange achievement that quotation marks are frequently what the reader misses most.

Reviews were similarly divided, between those who thought its stately depiction of fetishistic prostitution amounted to "psychosexual twaddle" (the Hollywood Reporter) and those who found it a "strange, ensnaring achievement" (Daily Telegraph).

SANTA FE, N.M. — Vivaldi would surely find it frustrating, if not a little strange, that his achievement as a composer today is distorted by the cultlike popularity of "The Four Seasons".

There's a strange relationship between athletic achievement and global recognition.

The way von Ziegesar implicates us in her empathic examination of youth's callousness is the Waughish achievement of these strange, complicated books.

Even the most mundane and functional items can be a source of strange comfort, a talisman of achievement, a thing to cling to when life gets you down.

It seems very strange to shoot for the achievement levels of these nations by doing the exact opposite of what they do.

Played with unflinching precision by the Philharmonia, the performance was a reminder that it's one of Shostakovich's greatest and most Mahlerian achievements, full of strange, beautiful and profoundly ambiguous music.

The strange artificiality of his youthful "achievements," and the nagging self-doubt it engendered, seems to have left him peculiarly vulnerable to the blandishments of advisers willing to reassure him that he was actually a brilliant and insightful person, who owed it to the world to share his ideas.

Most examples have a way of growing out to regal length: Colbert's beard most closely resembled that of King George V. Most, too, are gray; an achievement-style beard on someone of youth and of moot accomplishment looks strange.