Sentences with phrase «less than a triumph»

Driven from office in 2007, West was returned in something less than triumph in 2011 for a term that ends year after next.

If the movie is finally something of a failure as a romance, it's rarely less than a triumph of soulful imagination.

Once again, the hearings were less than a triumph for the «investigators,» but once again denialist blogosphere seized the opportunity to declare yet another victory over the hockey stick — and of course to vilify its author.

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In the election of an African - American president less than a half - century after the end of official racial segregation in much of the country, these Americans see the triumph of the values enshrined in the US Constitution over America's legacy of social, political, and economic prejudice.

If he does repeat his Boston triumph, it will be less due to how he psyched himself up for this race than how he prepares for every race.

She self - published «Triumph Over Calamity: What Really Happened on the Carnival Triumph — A Memoir» on Amazon on February 27, less than two weeks after the Triumph reached land.

Her entire life has been a string of hard - won, improbable triumphs, and she is loath to lower her standards to anything less than spectacular.

We are informed at the beginning that the signal was never decoded, and so the novel is less a story of scientific triumph than a series of ruminations on hermeneutics, the hubris of scientists, and the sociology of academic cohorts.

God, they argued, will not `' pervert justice»; (Job 8:3) he never will «cast away a perfect man,» nor «uphold the evildoers»; (Job 8:20) the wicked man, therefore, «travaileth with pain all his days,» (Job 15:20) terrors «chase him at his heels,» (Job 18:11) and any triumph he may have «is short»; (Job 20:5) the just God allows trouble to fall exclusively on evil men, so that all trouble reveals the precedent wickedness of the sufferer, and to an afflicted person like Job the proper message is, «God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.»

The story behind Russia's vast success at Squaw Valley was the same as it had been at Cortina: a massive sports program enveloping schools and clubs and labor unions and the military service, state encouragement, frequent outright aid to the specially talented, a fierce desire on the part of the individual to triumph, less for himself or his organization than for Mother Russia.

The decision of the Foxes to get rid of Claudio Ranieri less than a year after his remarkable EPL title triumph was roundly condemned by the football world, much more so than Wenger's departure would be, but it has been completely vindicated as they now look a different team.

Not to be outdone, David Remnick in the New Yorker weighed in with «The election of Donald Trump to the Presidency is nothing less than a tragedy for the American republic, a tragedy for the Constitution, and a triumph for the forces, at home and abroad, of nativism, authoritarianism, misogyny, and racism.

After an untimely and seemingly permanent exit from science, Douglas Prasher has made his way back in, a personal triumph no less meaningful to him than a Nobel Prize.

Consequently, there's less a sense of custom than of cruelty: the inevitable triumph of Western values doesn't play as an ethical one or even a human one, but rather the victory of a pouting princess.

He works on so many movies in so many different capacities — actor, producer, director, writer — that this year's triumphs seem less a culmination than a byproduct.

Edited and written (with semi-regular guest contributors) by Doug Cummings, the Los Angeles - based co-founder of Masters of Cinema (see separate entry), Film Journey is less a modest triumph than a triumph of modesty: unaffectedly functional in style, wonkish but never willfully obscure, updated on a schedule that's leisurely but sustained (Journey has averaged a handful of entries per month for over six years now).

«SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE» As so often happens, the breathless awards - oriented marketing has made this dizzying, defiantly eccentric cinematic hodgepodge sound less interesting than it really is — it's less a «triumph of the spirit» tale than a jagged, fantastical meditation on the nature of fate.

Yet opposed to a downer of a listen, «American Pastoral's» score is nothing less than spellbinding, tapping into the American dream gone wrong in a way that's lyrical as opposed to judgmental, marking for another low key triumph when it comes to Desplat's universally keen dramatic instincts..

Nielsen, who has had a spotty track record thus far, unquestionably triumphs here; her balance of savvy and beauty makes it easy to understand Commodus» less - than - healthy interest in his sister.

Sam's accomplishment, while one of the great commercial triumphs, was in some ways less impressive than his son's intrepid struggle, if only because the marketplace for retailers was already woven into American practice.

The 200 year history of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church is wrapped inextricably to the struggles and triumphs of the African American community in the South, and they did nothing less than try to erase that entire history out of some perverse desire to not name racist terrorism inspired by the very worst in our national heritage for what it is.

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If VII can not take the heat, then it falls and that's a good thing, If VII triumphs, we all win — we all then have a better and less risky way to invest then than any people coming before us ever had.