Sentence examples for classic means from inspiring English sources

Even a "classic" means different things at different times, to different readers.

That laser sintering wound up looking bit like quilting - the classic means of tailoring Chanel's technically untailored suits.

Fashion, by definition, is cyclic, but being a design classic means you have the sartorial stamina to ride it out.

In response to criticism that cash payments are a classic means of tax evasion, the finance minister said he had done nothing untoward.

A Senate proposal to mandate disclosure by political intelligence firms was scuttled in favor of the Government Accountability Office report, a classic means of burying an issue.

In response to this kind of social shock, Mr. Baverez argued, "the state's classic means of intervention have a limited effect".

Emmy is a classic mean girl who bullies Claire into this late-night trip.

The wife of the man tapped to be China's next leader performed the "Laundry Song" — a classic meant to persuade Tibetans of the virtues of the People's Liberation Army — in 2007.

Jim Small, Major League Baseball's vice president for Asia and venue manager for the W.B.C. in Fukuoka and Taichung, said the Classic meant more in Asia, largely because of the importance of the Olympics and the Asian Baseball Championship.

The three blockbuster films with the highest female contingent in the crew were revealed to be Tina Fey's cult classic Mean Girls, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, and Honey – each of which had a workforce composed of 42% women.

Pelecanos reworks the classic mean streets to a contemporary soundtrack, and if there is a drift towards sentimentality (and rehab) in recent books he is always a pleasure for his understanding of how a big city works - and doesn't.