Sentence examples for fawn from inspiring English sources

But 20 years ago, you couldn't move for thrillers in provincial theatres: always set in country houses or smart London flats, always starring an actor off the TV in neckerchief and fawn slacks (Gerald Harper or Jack Hedley or Bill Simpson), always featuring a drinks trolley, an attractive fiance, a best friend and a stalwart detective who appears after the interval to investigate the crime.

I still longed to be up there, to play that doctor, to wear that neckerchief and those fawn slacks.

On the contrary, the way more serious journalists fawn over the new president offers an irresistible target.

In "Bambi", where he excelled himself with the pathos of the fawn discovering his mother dead in the snow, or acknowledging with a slight, shy droop of the head the magnificence of his father, or stumbling through the forest on legs as thin as the grass, he found the face too bland, and the nose too short, to register as much as he wanted.

At a recent lunch in the seaside city of Mar del Plata, your correspondent was intrigued to see waiters and diners fawn over Mr Bulat.

Yet foreign leaders have already begun to fawn.

The state-owned papers fawn, and the national television station treats viewers to miles of old footage from the country's 30-year independence struggle against Ethiopia, interspersed with reports of Mr Afwerki opening factories.The government is growing increasingly dictatorial.

Mr Zapatero was inexperienced, ill-prepared and unprepossessing; he was nicknamed "Bambi", as he often looked like a startled fawn caught in the headlights.

Crude varies by viscosity from watery to almost solid, by colour from fawn to deepest black and by sulphurousness from negligible to devilish.

IN JUNE 76-year-old Dorothy Richardson of Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, discovered a fawn nestled in her garden.

BY MID-MORNING, the sun has burned off the early, misleading, puffs of cloud and starts to roast the caatinga, the spiny scrub that stretches, fawn-grey, without end across the backlands of north-east Brazil.