Sentence examples for actual years from inspiring English sources
The signs of ageing are reckoned to be so unacceptable that many in the public eye choose a strange, artificial appearance over a reflection of their actual years.
It may not take actual years off your life, but it certainly feels as though it puts decades on your age.
With her open face, broad eyes and generous mouth, there was perhaps always something a little melancholic about her – even pessimistic, a trait she readily admitted to – that found her playing more "mature" roles than her actual years.
That puts him within range of the actual years of Shakespeare's capricious, fulminating monarch, who jostles age against wisdom only to achieve belated clarity at moments of psychic and physical collapse.
The ballet's corps of Gypsies and La Manchan youth are an essential feature of Don Quixote's local colour and comedy, and though the dancers click their fingers and heels with gusto it is more as self-conscious tourists than as a genuinely larky crowd and the lack of a live collective personality makes the staging seem even dustier than its actual years.
It didn't suggest she could go to pieces at any moment, like a damsel in distress, but rather that she had absorbed some blows — her parents were at odds — and was, as a result, a tad older and smarter than her actual years.
Yet the actual year-to-year comparison was less impressive than it appeared.
"I want to talk about 1994," she said (the actual year "Experimental Jet Set" was released).
Only when the actual year-end results were known did the association change its position, even if a Dec. 1 account statement would have offered a different view.
Mr. Obama quoted Mr. Romney's talking points back to him, citing the actual year — 1916 — and ridiculed Mr. Romney's failure to understand that the military doesn't fight with bayonets and horses anymore.
It struck me as the best possible documentation of my actual year in reading — not a vague memory or an idealized portrait, but the moment-by-moment experience itself.
