Sentence examples for broken bird from inspiring English sources

Rose is a broken bird, fighting modernity in her insular Irish neighborhood, and losing.

On good days, he sat in the living room, propped like a broken bird keeping warm in the lamplight.

"Ronnie was a broken bird at the end but after serving time in prison she'll be steely and a bit of a matriarch with a lot more power and backbone.

His colleague thinks they are nothing more than "butchers", but Felix believes there is beauty in all of Ford's living creatures and takes it on himself to restore a broken bird to life.

She was flyweight and mousy as Kitty Bennet in Pride & Prejudice, grave and soulful as Ada Clare in the BBC production of Bleak House; impishly vulnerable in her Oscar-nominated breakthrough in An Education, a broken bird when she played The Seagull on Broadway.

I survived, though, and at home again in England, I was (briefly) inspired to become a collector, like Gerry and Theodore, although my bits of broken bird egg and stag beetles were, in retrospect, rather pathetic when compared to their trapdoor spiders, pet owls and pigeons.

He was very protective of his watches, treating them like tiny, broken birds requiring a calm, careful hand.

Leslie Smolen Wuebben was half Dickens's Miss Havisham and half a moonlit, broken exotic bird in "Butterfly," set to Puccini's "Un bel dì." Dressed in shreds of white, light-catching gauze, Ms. Wuebben staggered and lurched about the stage on stiff feet, heels raised.

Another phenotype of esa1 mutants is sensitivity to DNA damage induced by camptothecin, a topoisomerase I inhibitor that triggers double-strand breaks (Bird et al. 2002).

"WAKE up, wake up, my dear, the dawn has broken, the birds are singing and the moon has set".

Forest murmurs from the second act of his Ring opera "Siegfried" will have wafted through the lakeside house at Tribschen near Lucerne, dappled instrumental colours broken with bird-call and the sound of the super-hero's horn.