Sentence examples for strange success from inspiring English sources

On Tuesday in a bustling neighborhood in Istanbul, the Turkish organization was celebrating a strange success.

Mr. McGrady's strange success was a product of its times, which happened also to be very good ones for newspapers.

The strange success of the pro-coal forces in this region has, incidentally, been exactly the same as the main success of the Romney-Ryan campaign so far, which is that they've been able to convince people that the availability of jobs is the first and main concern of people trying to preserve a way of life.

Over the next year and a half, he would become one of the strangest success stories of the Civil War: a legal counterfeiter, driven by patriotism and personal gain, who struck at the financial heart of the Confederacy from the safety of downtown Philadelphia.

Plump with event and replete with achievement, 2009 was not only the biggest of years for the artistic director of London's Royal Court theatre, it was also the strangest, its successes punctuated by, among other horrors, an unusually thorough bashing at the hands of the critics.

But it is a strange kind of success.

Coupled with the show's shrunken size, it all smacks of a sublimated repudiation of "Passing Strange" and its success.

First of all, eventual recovery after years of Depression-level unemployment is a strange definition of success.

It is a strange kind of success: Wallace has created an artificial life form that gets along with people better than he does.

Stories, Teller added, that propel moonshots are "deep, hard, weird" and invite the world to come along for a long, strange trip whose success is not guaranteed.

The couple of years away have seen Vernon recording, producing and collaborating with artists from Gayngs to Kanye West, but they have also given him time to steady himself after the experiencing the strange enormity of success.