Discussion about it has almost always centered on how best to protect or, ideally, expand it, because it so surely accomplishes such great good.
To those who wonder "Is this all there is?" or "Is this the best we can do?", Shelley cries "No!" He reminds us, in the same insistent way he reminded all his lovers and friends, of how much we can surely accomplish once our demons have been conquered - and how extraordinary we can be.
Yet we still have a tremendous amount to learn about how neural tissue accomplishes the tasks that it surely accomplishes: perception, reasoning, decision-making, language acquisition, and so on.
We are saddened to think of all the wonderful things he surely would have accomplished.
After all, Osama bin Laden was dead: surely this was mission accomplished?
Seven years later at the Whitney, Mr. Irwin accomplished what is surely one of the masterpieces of Light and Space, or Minimalism in general, and he gave it to the museum on the condition that it could only be exhibited in the space that inspired it.
While I suppose it is unrealistic to expect those trends to be reversed, surely their goals can be accomplished with more attention to the criteria on the list.
As much as anyone, Weatherford surely appreciated what the Giants had accomplished.
She rides a longboard, eats bacon at pregame meals for good luck and surely is among the world's most accomplished shot-blocking kayakers.
Yet to bestride the field on which Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo were present; to score while they did not; and to look so accomplished in such company, this surely heralds an exciting career in the making.
