Sentence examples similar to age old grounds from inspiring English sources

While researching a biography of Cyril Connolly, I was surprised - and priggishly shocked - to come across a note from Orwell to his old school friend suggesting that they should review each other's recent books on the age-old grounds of 'You scratch my back.

Age old dilemma".

For example, he reactivates painting's age-old figure-ground relationship by using actively contrasting techniques that in addition to their general sensuousness are as suggestive as his forms.

Two miles worth of steel and cable will connect the mainland to a small island where there is not much besides a few thousand residents, some age-old ice fishing grounds and patches of locally prized curative herbs.

Age older than 50 years.

The interest-ometer flickered crazily as we passed into the splendidly named Hatfield Chase, an age-old royal hunting ground that spent much of its time beneath the surface of the many large rivers that ran through it.

This age-old rationale is grounded in the belief that if everyone owns a gun, no one will want to shoot each other because someone will return fire on them.

"The sound of the ocean is the sound of time passing, the sound of one moment giving way to the next," one writer intones, and another imparts the axiom "Old age grounds us and from that grounded point of view, we can begin to attend to our inner and outer world in a way that we could not when we were speeding over the surface of things".

See also aging; old age.

Stuff happens.The underlying issue is ages old.

Bailey felt confident that his take on old age was grounded in real observation and experience, as his parents had been advanced in age when they had him, and he was later cared for by a much older couple.