Water politics, always sensitive in the Middle East, acquired new depth early this year when the Turks stopped the river's flow for 30 days.

Women acquire depth and complexity with age.

When we see Darnay as the representative of a class that needs to atone an historical culpability, he acquires new interest and depth.

No one thinks of placing military and other assets in Afghanistan and thus acquiring strategic depth.

After man develops attention, however, the glow of awareness acquires depth.

And what could have registered as mere form-bending exercises acquire residual emotional depth that keeps you thinking about them.

Created in 1988, "Ives, Songs," with its image of a man recalling friends and family from the past, acquired new depth.

Although the anecdotes are arranged chronologically, Baba acquires little depth as a character as he becomes older.

But these necessary insights can seem too perfunctory, too freshly registered to have acquired sufficient depth.

But his performance slowly acquires depth, turning mere loutishness into a radiant, highly affecting innocence.