Sentence examples for a powerful old from inspiring English sources

Maybe I am over-sensitive, but I find the spectacle of a powerful old man falsely condemning an honourable young woman distasteful in the extreme.

The screenwriters, William Broyles, Jr., and the team of Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, make a pass at satire — there is, for example, a fancy dinner party at which a powerful old ape turns up with his trophy wife.

Since I had the misfortune of being mildly buggered by a stroke of my own last April, Al, once my co-sax player in a Dundee soul band in the 80s, has become a powerful old friend.

But when a powerful old enemy reappears, T'Challa's mettle as king — and Black Panther — is tested when he is drawn into a formidable conflict that puts the fate of Wakanda and the entire world at risk.

A powerful, old-style draftsman whose work runs from fantasy to superrealism, he manipulates the techniques of etching and aquatint to produce masterly effects of space, light and shadow.

("Let's recast this story as a triumphal, even uplifting tale of pluck and achievement," Mr. Wolff writes, about how she came to marry such a powerful older man.

But I did want to create a transgressive character, an artist and a mother, who is a powerful older woman and wants control over her life and her body.

Clarke is setting the scene for what the New York Times described as the "Svengali defence" – admitting Tsarnaev's guilt but painting him as in thrall to a powerful older brother, Tamerlan.

For sitting in his own chair, once again, is a powerful older guy.

I have a fairly powerful older machine with a new graphics card and a few gigabytes of memory.

Pictures of them from the 1970s and early '80s also tell this story, making Mr. Allen look like a hirsute, powerful older brother and Mr. Gates like a kid.