Biographers often find little overtly triumphant in the late years of a subject's life, once she has moved beyond the categories our available narratives have provided for women.

Slowly the King led back his warriors over whose heads had shrieked the triumphant years.

Bobby Holik, coming off 10 hard-nosed and often triumphant years on the other side of the Hudson, seems ready for the challenge.

Up until that devastating moment, it had been a triumphant year for the multitalented Mr. Holmes.

Deterministic laws of atomic arrangements in the triumphant years of classical physics seemed to lie behind the phenomena of life.

Dunlop ran the Edinburgh Festival for eight triumphant years from 1984-1991.

Further clouding his triumphant year, an actress who had been his personal assistant accused him of sexual harassment.

Under Jacquet, the national team experienced its triumphant years.

Mr. Raymond's most triumphant year, 1934, when he was overseeing the development of the DC-3, was also bittersweet.