Sentence examples for a truly old from inspiring English sources
While machine-woven rugs – aimed at far eastern clients – are gradually replacing the ancient techniques used to weave carpets, deep in the heart of the Grand Bazaar, Şişko Osman is a truly old style carpet dealer, scouring the cities of Anatolia for rare kilims and halis.
The show concludes with some of Titian's most heartbreaking pictures: a St. Sebastian, even more loosely left than the "Marsyas," the brushwork like cotton candy, an image of suffering only a truly old master could conjure up; and a St. Jerome (never mind the fussy foliage by Titian's helpers), where a silver beam from heaven, dark painted over light, breaks across a blue, dissolving landscape.
"A penny saved is a penny earned" is a truly old saying that dates back to the 17th century in a time when a penny had value.
It's not a truly old-fashioned novel; it's not (thankfully) anything so crass as a postmodern "subversion" of traditional fiction either.
"Coast Australia!" A truly old-fashioned adventurer, he swings into dizzying caves and zooms over bubbling oceans in ancient bi-planes, almost visibly thirsty to drink in the expertise of his interviewees and the sights below.
And for that truly old-school experience, you need a truly old-school controller.
Unless you're part of the infernal Snapchat generation, watching Pewdiepie videos, drinking e-liquid, talking about whether you're a fucking panromantic something or other, then you will have had a truly old-school shocking moment online.
In its time it was considered to be one of Norfolk's finest sources of quality oak and subsequently plundered, but a selection of truly old specimens survive.
But whether it's truly old, and once held a corpse, I'd rather not know.
That interpretation encouraged me to think that as Lear, he might dare to appear truly old and fragile in a powerhouse role.
We wandered around the Dell, a truly desperate old ground for short people of any age, looking for a good vantage point an hour or more before kick-off.
