Sentence examples for elder days from inspiring English sources

In 2007, The Children of Húrin, though set in the "Elder Days" of Middle-earth, offered an unparalleled imaginative view of a Germanic-style saga complete with dragon and dragon-slayer.

According to HarperCollins, Tolkien saw The Fall of Gondolin as one of his three "great tales" of the Elder Days, along with Beren and Lúthien and The Children of Húrin.

When I got into the TV critic game more than a decade ago, back in the Elder Days, "The Sopranos," "Deadwood," "Lost," "Battlestar Galactica" were on the air.

François Hollande has arrived in Timbuktu to meet local elders days after French forces liberated the Saharan city from fundamentalist Muslim rebels.

No respect for their elders these days.

One memory has endured: when they visited the Shelburne Museum in Burlington, Vt., shortly after they were married, Mr. Newman said, they came upon a large cradle on the floor in which relatives eased their elders' final days.

"You don't have the obvious party elders these days," said Walter Isaacson, president of the Aspen Institute and co-author, with Evan Thomas, of "The Wise Men," a study of the post-World War II foreign policy establishment.

She spoke of their "really good Maasai friends" and recalled having "discussions with elders lasting days," about education, patriarchy, and the future of the Maasai people.

The main goal of an adult Sim is to get his/her Aspiration Meter as high as possible, because... defer.add img); Elder-... the days an Elder has left in the game depends on the Aspiration he/she grows up into.

As in Iraq, the United States military has responded to bad news with counterinsurgency: eliminate troublemakers in the dark of night, with the most lethal arts, and befriend tribal elders by day, with cultural sensitivity and expertise.

Wigginton, the rookie third baseman, is what passes for a Mets elder statesmen these days.