The same might well be said of the two volumes of Mr. Guralnick's biography: the second, however well-intentioned, cannot compare to the dazzling achievement of the first.

In "Amélie," the fastidious complex of flesh and fantasy is a dazzling achievement.

There are probably no more dazzling achievements by Goltzius than his pen works, the first of which on canvas also coincided with his conversion from engraver to painter.

It saw dazzling scientific achievements - and the darkest human instincts working on an unprecedented scale.

His legacy is "a large and dazzling achievement," W. S. Merwin said here in 1995.

That book, it is now clear, was only a warm-up for the dazzling achievement of "Mile Zero."

When the dust of war settled, it was the dazzling cultural achievements that left their mark on the age.

While the Stardust mission stands to provide invalu-able insights, the successful gathering of a comet's dust is a dazzling achievement in and of itself.

Mr. Kazan's supporters argued that the director's dazzling artistic achievement merited the awards.

His refusal to correct reports with questionable content strained the organization's credibility, and dazzling achievements became an infrequent commodity.