Sentence examples for bygone glory from inspiring English sources
In Coney Island, the steel skeleton of the Parachute Jump stands like a 250-foot-tall grave marker to bygone glory.
"Vixen" is familiar to those who saw New York City Opera's lovely production, last presented in 1991, back in what increasingly looks like the bygone glory days of that struggling company.
And the bygone glory is as palpable as the grooves worn into the floor in front of the tellers' windows at the imposing Romanesque post office and customs house that overlooks the harbor.
Connolly ended his life as the grandest of literary panjandrums: lead reviewer on the Sunday Times, compiler of a respectfully received vade mecum of the Modern Movement, trails of bygone glory gently diffusing around his considerable form.
When all is said and done at the Vienna meeting, there you will find Ahmadinejad at his favorite Viennese Konditorei munching an apfelstrudel and raising a cup of schokolade mit schlag toasting those bygone glory days of the Anschluss.
It is never the bygone glory days to which we must return -- it is the regrettable condition of an ungodly marriage between Christianity and the state, Christianity and government power, Christianity and corrupt coercive agendas.
Hand on heart he reels off lines from Edgar Allan Poe and paeans to the bygone glories of Greece and Rome.
These aren't the bygone glories of, say, the old Penn Station, but all of lost New York has a corner in the kingdom of Heaven.
But in 1919, after years of debate and jockeying among school administrators and supporters of both sports, American football won out, and today those bygone Olympic glories are all but forgotten.
Nicole Loraux wrote of a bygone culture, "The glory of a woman was to have no glory".
Regardless of who falls, the community will no doubt continue to thrive; the passion for these old games is undying and, as new generations have shown, is not limited to an aging cohort of Gen-Xers striving to extend a bygone era of glory (though admittedly they are a big part of it).
