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Etymology

Borrowing from French.

Noun

succès d'estime

1. Critical success for a work of art, regardless of whether the work is popular with the general public.

Quotations

  • 1993, Brian Boyd, , →ISBN, page 518:

Walter Minton, he felt convinced, had resigned himself to Putnam's other Nabokov books earning no more than a succès d'estime, and so had projected limited sales, offered modest advances, and advertised little.

  • 2012, Gardner Dozois, , →ISBN:

The surreal Being John Malkovich, for instance, was pretty far down the highest-grossing list, but it was a succès d'estime (it showed up on most critics' lists of the year's best movies), as was the stylish and often grisly (far more violent than the average animated movie) Japanise animated production, Princess Monoke.

  • 2015, Ethan Mordden, , →ISBN, page 170:

The former, though a famous title, has never established itself in revival even as a succès d'estime.

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