Sentence examples for elderly writer from inspiring English sources
"Willie," the diarist Chips Channon observed of the elderly writer, "has been everywhere, met everybody, tasted everything".
To them, and especially to Alan, a hard-nosed financial consultant, this elderly writer is out of touch, an old fart, an unworldly mandarin.
"A novel is the least suitable form of literature for the elderly writer," she said drearily, because they risk "simply repeating things" and are "past imagining new possibilities".
Like Someone in Love (2012), which was shot in Japan, is about a young prostitute, her fiancé, and one of her clients, an elderly writer, and is another of Kiarostami's films that features many driving scenes.
Chapman's Odyssey, Bailey's new novel, tracks the psychic voyage made by an elderly writer, bedbound in hospital, through the characters, real and imaginary, that have meant most in his intense imaginative life.
As this week's London book fair saw thousands of publishers and literary agents from around the world wheeling and dealing over the year's hottest new authors, Athill was not the only elderly writer stealing the limelight.
Lots of elderly writers are very productive and at the peak of form: PD James (89) and Ruth Rendell (79) come to mind at once.
My little sample may be idiosyncratic, and biased in favor of eloquence — these are elderly writers, all over the age of seventy-five, who clearly still have their wits very much about them.
However, this time he has introduced a series of imaginary dialogues between him and hard-nosed Silk Road traders from the past, which might be read as an elderly travel writer melancholically looking back at his life and trade at the end of his career.
A Song at Twilight An elderly, closeted writer has a confrontation with his ex-mistress in Noel Coward's drama; with Bruce Davison and Sharon Lawrence.
Briefly discusses Moriguchi's marriage to Keiko Terada, who, for may years, was full-time caretaker to Moriguchi's elderly parents… Writer describes how Kako Moriguchi became the first member of his clan to practice yuzen.
