Sentence examples for a golden thread running from inspiring English sources

Now, when Fonda discusses her mother, she does so either in a flat, matter-of-fact tone (in her memoir, she writes, "Mother had killed herself ten months before a new house she'd been building for us was finished. It was April and I guess she couldn't wait") or in a language that's baroque and unreal ("My mother? She was a golden thread running through our lives").

The framework says the presumption towards sustainable development should be "seen as a golden thread running through both plan-making and decision-taking".

The commission called for the government to put social mobility at the heart of its policies and practices, so that it was a "golden thread" running through all it did.

Tory MP Stewart Jackson told Thompson there was a "golden thread that runs through the whole of your time at the BBC.

For there is indeed is a golden thread that runs through British history of the individual standing firm for freedom and liberty against tyranny and the arbitrary use of power.

Ovidian myth, magic and wonder form a golden thread that runs all the way through his career from these early works to the late visions of The Winter's Tale, where the exquisite animation of Hermione's statue nods to the story of Pygmalion, and The Tempest, which alludes to the sinister magic of the sorceress Medea.

Underpinning these are universal ethical standards - human equality, dignity and solidarity - which also run as a golden thread throughout much of the work.

"It is a tapestry of geographical and historical treasures through which whiskey runs like a golden thread".

A profound, sometimes anguished fellow-feeling for the victims of arbitrary power ran, like a golden thread, through Burke's 30 years in parliament.

"What beauty they created for people who thought we were nothing but goods, not even human beings!" This observation runs like a golden thread through Harris's lively if wayward account of how African slaves, thrust into a strange land, carried with them the taste memories, cooking techniques and agricultural practices of their homelands and transformed the way Americans ate.

It was a result guaranteed to run through his CV like a golden thread, and offered further evidence of the potential of too many unheralded British managers.