Sentences with phrase «certain kind of success»

We somehow managed to build FUBU into a lifestyle brand, a line that seemed to symbolize a certain kind of success, a certain way of expressing yourself, John writes.

by Walter Chaw Reading a little like an anguished autobiography of a certain kind of success and the ethnic price of it, Sherman Alexie's The Business of Fancydancing demands an examination of the compulsion to use «Native American author» as a prefix to Alexie's name.

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But they disagree about whether fancy degrees, world travel, and certain kind of rhetorical fluency reflect merit — as opposed to, say, success in business or raising a thriving family.

«Probably for thousands of years in some cultures, certain kinds of intellectual ability may have been tied to reproductive success.»

Even those who find extended success at a certain kind of picture — say, Will Smith in heroic sci - fi action or Adam Sandler in goofy romantic comedies — eventually find audiences growing tired of their shtick and wanting them to challenge themselves.

That kind of Oscar success can seem excessive in retrospect (as it does for certain decorated older musicals whose reputations have weakened), but fifteen years later, that's not the case here.

Somebody was talking to me about pictures that I had made and they were saying that certain films like «Paper Moon» and «Last Picture Show» and later films didn't have that kind of success and yet filmmakers like Wes Anderson or Noah or Quentin like later films like «Saint Jack» or «They All Laughed.»

And due to the skill of the con artist (through the applying of the power of autosuggestion mostly) the victim will have some kind of «revelation», by which and through it, he or she discovered so «cleverly», all by himself, the main and the very certain way to success by «intellectually» valuating the best benefits in regard to future outcomes,,,,,,,,,,, in a single moment moving from imagination or otherwise a projection to a revelation or what otherwise could be considered as a very certain prediction.

We try to have monthly caps on certain matters, but I proposed a success fee to a German lawyer and he implied that kind of arrangement is prohibited there,» he says.