Sentence examples for far from sweet from inspiring English sources

They are, Dijkstra adds, "far from sweet and not sentimental".

Even so, the looks were far from sweet and virginal; they were almost gothic.

One of the best numbers, "Not in Love Song," flows like a tender ballad but offers lyrics that are far from sweet, allowing characters to explain their coldness.

If a nasty new-old Russian regime suddenly decided to bash a new NATO member, say Latvia, where relations with ethnic Russians are still far from sweet, an expanded alliance would darned well have to fight for those Letts.

Let Them Eat Cake The Tast-eez plant in Brooklyn produces cakes and confectionery, but for its workers life is far from sweet: long hours, stifling heat, blaring noise, no job security and old, dangerous equipment.

This ballet, which seemed to begin where other ballets ended, now concludes with what feels like a beginning — the start of a wholly new world order, harmonious but far from sweet; vigilant and declaratory, with the dancers more braced for action than before.

Today, we are as far away from "Sweet Like Chocolate" as Tony Blair's landslide victory was from Saturday Night Fever, and the kind of widespread social optimism you get when houses, weddings and kids are all viable options generally seems like a distant dream.

Short, stocky, with an enormous nose and hooded eyes, she was far from the sweet Bambi creature promoted in womens' magazines.

While "Messenger" may tie the three stories together just a little too neatly, it is still far from a sweet resolution.

Cinderella (Michelle Dawson) is far from a sweet little martyr, and children at the preview I attended delighted in seeing her push her stepsisters into a canal.

In Brendel's beloved key of C minor, this Sonata reminds us, as the pianist has long argued, that Mozart is far from the "sweet, tender, pampered" figure he was once regarded as, achieving in this music something "superhuman" and "sublime".