While not as critically acclaimed as the first two films, it was still a box office success, earning a revenue of $ 136 million against a budget of $ 54 million.

While generally Banach was a diligent student he did on occasion receive low grades ( he failed Greek during his first semester at the gymnasium ) and would later speak critically of the school's math teachers.

While Christensen's critically acclaimed portrayal of a misunderstood teenager in Life as a House ( 2001 ) earned him Golden Globe and SAG Award nominations as well as the National Board of Review's award for Breakthrough Performance of the Year, the performance did not receive widespread public notice.

While in battle with Aeneas, he is critically injured by a spear blow, but his son Lausus bravely blocks Aeneas's final blow.

While the film was critically acclaimed, it has been harshly criticized as exploitative by real-life witnesses.

While some believe that the slick production and disco rhythms didn't flatter the group, and the album had mixed critically and commercial response, it sold enough to generate a follow up.

While critically acclaimed, sales have not met expectations, as the price of the RL is perceived to be out of its bracket.

While his demeanor is typically mild and polite, Giles is not above using raw violence to solve a problem, such as physically threatening Principal Snyder into readmitting Buffy to school after her expulsion (" Dead Man's Party "), pummeling Angelus senseless with a flaming baseball bat and burning down his hideout upon discovering that he had killed Jenny Calendar (" Passion "), manhandling Spike while ordering him to get over his feelings for Buffy (" I Was Made to Love You "), forcing Glory's minion Slook to talk by inflicting a painful-sounding injury offscreen (" Tough Love "), severely beating up Ethan Rayne for information (" Halloween "), and suffocating a critically injured Ben with his bare hands to keep Glory from awakening in his body.

While critically acclaimed for his style, the themes and characters of Arishima ’ s works did not appeal to many contemporary Japanese readers.

While critically praised, the album was not as commercially viable as its predecessors ( though it was certified Silver by the BPI for sales of over 60, 000 copies ).

While Magnolia struggled at the box office, it was well-received critically.

While at Cambridge, he was a member of the Marlowe Society and directed several plays, including a critically acclaimed production of Cyrano de Bergerac with Tom Hollander amongst the cast members.

While Sumner often viewed contemporary society critically, his faith in reform was unshakable.

While Evola was clear about the relative insignificance of the physical attributes of race, he did acknowledge that the ' original Hyperboreans ,' which he was critically concerned, were probably ' dolichocephalic, tall and slender, blond and blue-eyed ' ( Sintesi di Dottrina della Razza, p. 67 ).

While Creation Records ' releases at this time tended to be critically acclaimed, they tended not to be major commercial hits.

While critically successful, Brütal Legend failed to make any sales breakthrough.

" While Japanese sociologist Kosaku Yoshino sees Iorga as a main contributor to didactic and dramatized cultural nationalism in Europe, University of Trento academic Paul Blokker suggests that, although " politicized, essentialist and sometimes anachronistic ", Iorga's writings can be critically recovered.

While at Interplay, he worked on the critically acclaimed Fallout as co-Lead Programmer and was responsible for much of the engine architecture and optimizations.

While the photography yielded the director satisfactory results critically, the rest of the production was difficult from the start.

While the film itself was critically panned, many reviews singled out her performance for acclaim.

While his works were never particularly successful in the west, throughout the Middle East they are both critically acclaimed and extremely popular.

While the tour was well received critically, Spirit disbanded in mid-1973.

While the film did not do well commercially, critically it was acclaimed, with Martin Scorsese naming Bottle Rocket one of his favorite films of the 1990s.

While critically acclaimed, the show ran for only half a season in 1975.

While recovering from the stroke and heart attack, Diddley came back to his home town of McComb, Mississippi, in early November 2007 for the unveiling of a plaque devoted to him on the National Blues Trail stating that he was " acclaimed as a founder of rock and roll.

While Spain was fighting in France, Portugal — which had been under personal union with Spain for 60 years — acclaimed John IV of Braganza as king in 1640, and the House of Braganza became the new dynasty of Portugal ( see Portuguese Restoration War, for further information ).

While acclaimed by the press in 1998 as the most realistic racing simulator ever, GPL did not sell very well, especially in the US where a Formula One-based racing game holds less appeal than it does in the rest of the world.

While the success of some of these films was variable, the 2001 London stage production of My Fair Lady and his portrayal of Professor Henry Higgins was being acclaimed by the media.

While working with the British armies in America, he conducted experiments concerning the force of gunpowder, the results of which were widely acclaimed when eventually published, in 1781, in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

While Asteroids ( 1979 ) allowed the player to rotate the game's spacecraft, 1982's highly acclaimed Robotron 2084 was most influential on subsequent multi-directional shooters.

While using Muppet characters to act out educational principles, " Monsterpiece Theater " is also a parody of the similarly acclaimed PBS show Masterpiece Theatre, now known simply as Masterpiece.

While not as acclaimed or commercially successful as director Friedkin's later work, Friedkin considers this film to be one of his favorites.

While some Soviet critics acclaimed it at the time of the premiere, the Second Symphony did not attain lasting success.

While Pere Ubu have never been widely popular — usually categorized as " underground rock "— they have a devoted following and are an influential and critically acclaimed band.

While the gameplay was universally acclaimed, critics were divided on the philosophical nature and execution of the game's storyline, which explores themes such as memes, social engineering, political conspiracies, censorship, and artificial intelligence.

While the acclaimed Warlords series later allowed customization of heroes, Master of Magic was the first major fantasy strategy game to feature individually distinct heroes, with unique abilities, which could be equipped with customized items.

While working for Chaosium he co-authored the second edition of RuneQuest, for which he also co-wrote the critically acclaimed Trollpak and a number of other Gloranthan supplements.

While the group only recorded one album together as the Analog Brothers, a few bootlegs of its live concert performances, including freestyles with original lyrics, have occasionally surfaced online.

The album contains the signature track, " El Shaddai " ( written by Michael Card ) and the Grant-Chapman penned song, " In a Little While ".

The Allmusic review by Marc Gilman awarded the album 4½ stars noting that " While some compositions retain their original structure and sound, some are expanded and probed by Zorn's arrangements, and resemble avant-garde classical music more than jazz.

While he was working at Friends Bubbles formed an association with Hawkwind and became responsible for a run of their album sleeves, including X In Search of Space, Doremi Fasol Latido and Space Ritual.

While receiving generally favorable reviews, however, the album did not achieve the crossover success Parton had hoped for.

While this album was also successful, it was not quite as popular as her previous album in the mainstream.

While commercially watered-down, his album enjoyed a status of being one of the first mainstream Spanglish CDs on the market.

While the album had been recorded in early 1983, the album's release was delayed for a year by SST.

While the recording took place in a studio, each record of this series has the structure and feel of a live performance, with several first takes on each album.

While the album is almost completely guitar-driven, it is mostly devoid of any conventional sounding guitar solos, a conscious decision made by Lifeson during the writing process.

While Simon was in England that summer of 1965, radio stations around Cocoa Beach and Gainesville, Florida, began to receive requests for a song from the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A. M. called " The Sound of Silence ".

While creating the album, Kelly traveled with the team for both UK and European games for several years, and also for two seasons managed several players: Kevin Keegan, Tommy Smith, and Larry Hughes.

While in California the band also performed live, and one gig at the Long Branch Saloon in Berkeley was later issued as a live album.

While the group was together, every song written by Lennon or McCartney was credited as Lennon – McCartney regardless of whether the song was a collaboration or written solely by one of the two ( except for those appearing on their first album, Please Please Me, which credited the songs to McCartney – Lennon ).

While the album went platinum, it only reached No. 24 on the Billboard chart.

While recuperating, May was initially absent when the band started work on their third album, but he returned midway through the recording process.

While there have occasionally been a few vocals on the band's other releases, such as the track " Kiew Mission " from 1981's Exit and " The Harbor " from 1987's Shy People, the group only recently returned to featuring vocals in a musical trilogy based on Dante's Divine Comedy and their 2007 album Madcap's Flaming Duty.

While Modern Life Is Rubbish was a moderate success, it was Blur's third album Parklife that made them arguably the most popular band in the UK in 1994.

While Q called it " a dense, fascinating, idiosyncratic and accomplished art rock album ", the NME felt it was inconsistent and "( at least ) a quarter-of-an-hour too long ".

While recording the Songbooks and the occasional studio album, Fitzgerald toured 40 to 45 weeks per year in the United States and internationally, under the tutelage of Norman Granz.

While all went well for the recording used to produce the album, the debut tour performance at the same venue ground to a halt as the power failed, just as Emerson arrived at the Hammond organ to open the next part of the piece.

While the label wanted " 7 " to be the first single, Prince fought to have " My Name Is Prince " as he " felt that the song's more hip-hoppery would appeal to the same audience " that had purchased the previous album.

While the three band members and co-producer Nigel Gray all expressed immediate regret over the rushed recording for the album, which was finished on 4 a. m. on the day the band began their world tour, the album would receive high praise from critics.