Sentence examples for Lost language from inspiring English sources

But this tale of getting and spending in the 1990's, directed by Kenny Leon, throbs with a lament for a lost time, a lost culture, a lost language (2 30).

This is a book whose words are in a lost language, yet somehow they are clear.

He crafted a bleak contemporary setting for the 1987 production of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party, and for Nigel Finch's The Lost Language Of Cranes (1991).

Schlesinger also maintained that the best directors are also good actors, and he acted occasionally until the late 1990s, appearing in such films as The Lost Language of Cranes (1991) and The Twilight of the Golds (1996).

"This Train" contrasts scenes of daily life in the Ukrainian Village with the story of the hobo alphabet, a lost language of hieroglyphs that vagrants used to signal danger or opportunity ahead.

*** The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt (Bloomsbury, £8.99) In the 1997 preface to this novel, first published in 1986, Leavitt recalls how his second novel was initially seen as a disappointment after the success of his first.

"The lost words of the language have finally come to roost," it began.

Whereas the ideal linguistic state would be the lost universal language of Eden.

But beneath the story of abundance and of friendship, there's also a counter-narrative of lost land, language and customs.

From the frantic synths of "Raptor" to the catchy hooks of "Lost", Green Language is a journey from the lushness of where Rustie's sound originated to the weirdness of where it's going next.

Mrs. Baiter, 58, is the author of four books on language, including "Poplollies and Bellibones: A Celebration of Lost Words" (Clarkson N. Potter, 1977) and "Lost Words of Love" (Potter, 1993).