Sentence examples for feeling of empire from inspiring English sources

"The aesthetic they were going for was a gentleman's smoking room in London — overstuffed chairs, very dark wood — that feeling of empire," said Jesse Lebovics, the Olympia's chief caretaker.

There's a feeling of an empire becoming overextended.

When the bill died, a moment of possibility (59 Democratic Senators, plus Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine)) faded, leaving those who care about the future feeling like at the end of Empire Strikes Back.

The real story is not NATO muscle-flexing in Russia's back yard, but the Kremlin's lingering feeling of entitlement over its former empire, they argue.Still, if Russia matches its verbal climbdown with an end to its military sabre-rattling against Georgia, it will set the stage for a sunny visit by Mr Obama to Russia in July.

Is this an end-of-empire moment?

Harris's idea was that cricket could help maintain the racial hierarchy of empire while also fostering enough good feeling to quell rebellious thoughts.

Too much concern for the hurt feelings of a fallen empire could be misread as weakness and so encourage further bullying.

The feeling of well-being that pervaded the empire under Antoninus is reflected in the celebrated panegyric by the orator Aelius Aristides in 143 144.

Larry Schwartz, head of Empire Builders, a successful 22-employee homebuilder in Annapolis, Md., isn't feeling the love from his lenders.

She said that she chose to record her own version of "Empire State of Mind" because she wanted to express her own personal feelings about New York.

To me, it smacks of Empire.