Sentence examples for a tarnished one from inspiring English sources

But in a sentimental misstep, the movie insists on making Eli a martyr, albeit a tarnished one, to the supposedly braver, nobler time that has passed him by.

The book's final picture is of a beach strewn with beer cans: a glimmer of hope, and yet a tarnished one.

And every home they've had, whether it was a SoHo loft or a sprawling Hamptons house, has been arranged just so: towels piled in even stacks, monograms neatly aligned, copper pots gleaming in perfect rows (not a tarnished one in sight), and tables set better than those in most restaurants.

GM, for example, picked up control of Daewoo, the bankrupt Korean carmaker, the same week that it announced the end of the Chevrolet Camaro, an icon among young men (but a tarnished one: GM hadn't redone the car in nearly a decade).

In fact, the samurai myth is now a fairly tarnished one in Japan, in a way that the movie's glory-filled depiction doesn't reflect.

A theatre with one of the best reputations for finding and nurturing new writing – albeit a slightly tarnished one for the prone-to-leaks venue it operates from – today announced its relocation.

On the other hand, where productive clinical case discussion came to an end, or had never really taken off, the image of whole link working project was tarnished; one practitioner reported 'there's no point having a link worker coming to practices discussing cases which barely change from time to time.' Productive link working was also vulnerable to changes in personnel and crises within teams.

Still, his resignation, and Mr. Spitzer's lawsuit, has tarnished one of the most powerful families in American business.

The liberal President Bartlet, played by Martin Sheen, was the idealised Democratic president that Aaron Sorkin and his scriptwriters wished they could have had in the White House, instead of the embattled and tarnished one they had actually got, thanks to Monica Lewinsky and Kenneth Starr.

Ultimately, you get a sense from these books that the only heroes are tarnished ones.

Since these golden years – admittedly, tarnished ones – Soho has been in decline.