Sentence examples for a sort of returning from inspiring English sources

When Kirn returns from Macalaster College for the senior prom "as a sort of returning celebrity," those who haven't played the meritocratic game scare him: "How stupid we all were, here in crass America...

Glenys describes it as a sort of return.

If Starbucks expands into Italy, it will be a sort of return to the promised land for C.E.O.

Purists beware: this is not a straight adaptation but a sort of Return to Wonderland, in which a grown-up Alice revisits the haunt of her childhood dreams.

This genuinely stylish book was reissued just four years ago, to coincide with a sort of return to gentlemanly dress (if not behaviour).

Zoli, the latest novel from the award-winning Colum McCann, published last month by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, tells the story of a Romani poet, following her from her early days with a travelling company of harpists to a life of fame under the socialist government of Czechoslovakia, to exile and a sort of return.

The play is a sort of return to old haunts for me because I've translated three other plays by von Horváth, now recognised as one of the key German-language playwrights of the 20th century, central to understanding the Thirties, but I haven't done one for about 20 years.

Instead of attempting to turn metropolises into modern versions of these paintings, he advocates a sort of return to nature.

In [the] case of Rantanen it is a sort of return back to the basics and materials.

So, I think there's a confidence, sort of, returning in the consumer sector, even before jobs have really become as strong as I think they're going to be this year.

Investing at the advisory company level means being dependent on the funds producing a profit to see any sort of return.