Sentence examples for faded elegance from inspiring English sources

A certain kind of faded elegance prevails.

I imagine that the faded elegance of Kutsher's would not suit West's future-shock boutique tastes.

Its narrow streets are all faded elegance and ochre charm, punctuated by sumptuous outbreaks of baroque.

Bill Nighy as Sergeant Wilson feels right: they share the same faded elegance.

A faint fin-de-siècle air seems to cling to the faded elegance of Sluka's mauve and cream interior.

THE fabric of Coláiste Feirste, a secondary school on a hill overlooking the Falls Road in the Catholic heartland of West Belfast, ranges from faded elegance to decrepitude.

I'd reckoned that the Gliffaes, with its air of faded colonial elegance, would offer a flavour of the same.

In January 1989, just after her mother's funeral, she and her husband sat for a rare interview at her mother's house in Rangoon, now Yangon, as their children ran about the rooms, with their faded colonial elegance.

I am the only light at the end of the tunnel," he intoned in Pancevo, a city of faded Habsburg elegance a half an hour's drive from the capital Belgrade.

The other work was Samuel Barber's ballet music "Medea's Dance of Vengeance". Barber was better than most at reconciling faded European elegance with American music's rosy cheeks.

The strength of Aswany's novels is that they are able to reflect this, with their multitudes of characters evoking the many facets of Egyptian life: faded colonial elegance and the sclerotic hold of a corrupt dictator, Western influence and Islamic fervor, the enduring hardships borne by the very poor from generation to generation.