Fame and death are closely braided themes shadowing "The Next Day," which is receiving acclaim as Mr. Bowie's strongest album in decades.
In response to a question from the head of a small, struggling theater company who's wondering whether or not to close up shop, Mr. Nelson offers some encouragement: "If you're earning a living and are receiving acclaim from the community, I wouldn't quit.
Around the same time Mr. Burton received his cease-and-desist letter, his album was receiving critical acclaim in Rolling Stone magazine.
All his life he not only felt himself out of place geographically and socially – "a man without a country", as he said of himself – but considered that the writing work he was doing was beneath him, even in the years when he was receiving critical acclaim – Auden and Evelyn Waugh were among those who recognised his talent and originality – and earning a lot of money.
If anything, he was better-looking than his son; I was a student at Wesleyan University when Reeve was a leading light in the inter-disciplinary College of Letters and his poetry was receiving its highest acclaim.
By the time VIP Deals ended its rebate on Amazon.com late last month, its leather case for the Kindle Fire was receiving the sort of acclaim once reserved for the likes of Kim Jong-il.
Klimt worked first on Makart's commissions; by the early 1880s he was receiving his own and increasing acclaim.
In 2004, he gave the first of the annual De Wardener lectures at Charing Cross hospital, which was received with acclaim.
As he recalled in his memoir: "When I made a statement in the Commons on the outcome I was received with acclaim and the waving of order papers.
From Venice he returned to Florence, where, after a long absence, he was received with acclaim and honoured as a renowned native son.
"Rutherford and Son," Sowerby's first play, was received to acclaim, and the author was subsequently described by the early feminist Emma Goldman as history's first significant female playwright.
