Sentence examples for a sort of latter from inspiring English sources

On the company's Web site he is described as "a sort of latter day Thoreau crossed with an English gardener" who can "create the garden or landscape of your dreams".

Frank Underwood, he's a sort of latter-day Iago isn't he?

The result is a sort of latter-day "Swiss Family Robinson".

It is perhaps best viewed as a series of breathtaking tableaux, a sort of latter-day Ziegfeld Follies by way of National Geographic.

Mr. Prince has said that "Merrily" was originally conceived as a sort of latter-day "Babes in Arms," a bubbly frolic to display young talent.

Many Thais revere him as a sort of latter-day Buddha, selflessly postponing his own enlightenment in order to guide his subjects through the mire of modern life.

In a sort of latter-day version of the 19th-century scramble for Africa, India and Malaysia have been granted oil concessions too.

It was of this district that Heinrich Zille, who was a sort of latter-day German Daumier, wrote, "You can kill a man with an apartment as with an axe - it takes only a little longer".

Others may imagine Las Vegas in that era as a sort of latter-day Runyonesque Broadway, peopled by characters called Fiore "Fifi" Buccieri, Joey "The Clown" Lombardo and Frank "The German" Schweihs.They weren't entirely lovable.

A big bar made sense because the house in that era was a sort of latter-day speakeasy, an unlicensed club tricked out not only with the elaborate bar but also with a handful of card tables, thousands of Christmas lights and a jukebox full of James Brown and Al Green.

In the proposal, which was quickly faxed around to half the journalists in New York, Blair, who is African-American, cast himself on the one hand as a black urban professional Everyman and on the other as a sort of latter-day Nat Turner.