Sentence examples for work that succeeds from inspiring English sources

That had to be told because this story compels telling; but it is such a bald summary of a work that succeeds in several known genres: as family memoir, travel literature (De Waal's Japan is the nearest thing to being there, and over decades), essays on migration and exile, on cultural misperceptions, and on De Waal's attempt to define his relationship with his own kaolin creations.

In its focus on two modes of love, erotic and maternal, "The Good Mother" inaugurated Miller's exploration of these often conflicting emotions in the work that succeeded it: a collection of stories and five novels, of which "The World Below" is the latest.

One contemporary work that succeeded in speaking to and consoling an entire population was Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington.

Some works that succeed are historical, like the quiet but assertive and functional vessels of Lucy Rie (1902-95), ofe of the founders of modern British ceramics.

President Hoover's administration built facilities such as Modesto's in a last-ditch effort to end the Depression, before Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal unleashed a far greater torrent of public works that succeeded where Hoover had failed (pdf).

That worked, that succeeded in its mission.

A man who produces a great work of art that succeeds in deeply affecting our consciousness of the past and of the human condition deserves to be listened to.

There's no substitute for doing work that matters and that succeeds".

This formula works for every charter school that succeeds, yet we refuse to apply it to all public schools.

It's a puzzle that succeeds: hard to work out but absorbing and, despite the result, oddly playful.

Some theorists have done so by accepting the framework Parfit has set for the investigation; that is, they have carried on the work of developing an ethical theory that succeeds in meeting Parfit's minimal requirements for adequacy.