Sentence examples for end of citizen from inspiring English sources

It is impossible not to think of that burning sled at the end of Citizen Kane and the dreams that die with it.

He expects us to recall the end of Citizen Kane, when the detritus of Kane's life, ending up with the Rosebud sledge, is tossed into the furnace and it all goes up in smoke into the sky above Xanadu.

In his introduction to the show he writes: "I kept returning to thoughts of 'Rosebud,' the beloved childhood sled irretrievably lost in the vast warehouse of treasures at the end of 'Citizen Kane.' Overshadowed by more important objets d'art, it is of sentimental value to only one person, and yet it is the mysterious heart of the story".

That's nearly 7% of your available life Watching every film on the BFI's list of The Greatest Films of All Time will take you 217 hours (with an extra half-hour if you want to watch the hilarious "blooper reel" at the end of Citizen Kane).

Scorsese is insisting on the lifelong urge to keep faith with God, but, equally, no film director can delve into a conflagration to find a single object — trusted and mislaid, though never forgotten — and not pay tribute to the end of "Citizen Kane," where the sled once belonging to the young Charlie Kane is casually tossed into a furnace.

Now in its sixth printing, the list at the end of "Citizen" keeps growing.

The elevation of the American soldier to the heavens of praise and bombast came significantly after the end of the citizen army, particularly with what retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel William Astore, in "Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You -- He Already Has You," calls the new Fortress America mindset of the post-9/11 years and the ever more militarized world of constant war that went with it.

In 1973, the Nixon administration ended the draft, which also marked the end of a citizen-soldier tradition that had served the nation for two centuries.

"My dear Sirs, it was with great sadness that I read of your impending ending of senior citizen discounts.

Though Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged to provide temporary housing and a monthly stipend for the 25,000 Syrian refugees who will be resettled in Canada by the end of February 2016, Canadian citizens, businesses and aid groups have created parallel support systems for incoming refugees.

The book ended with the making of Citizen Kane, not just a remarkable directorial debut, but one of the greatest films of all time, the controversy it aroused and its relative failure at the box office.