Of course, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" turned out to be a critical triumph and even a mild commercial success.
That performance was a critical triumph, and word quickly spread that a remarkable new Marschallin had arrived among us.
Her account of the anthropologist's long life and career was a critical and commercial triumph.
It was also a critical triumph, winning four Academy Awards, including the one for best foreign-language film.
Share My Lettuce was much more of a commercial success than it was a critical triumph.
Summer Hours was a critical triumph.
It was costly; it was also a critical triumph and a sell-out.
While it was a popular and critical triumph, the five-day season was not a financial success.
A critical and commercial triumph, it found Springsteen marking a departure in his sound.
They brought it back the next season in another critical and audience triumph, but the piece has since been languishing again.