Sentence examples for finished city from inspiring English sources

Unlike Paris, which had seemed very much a finished city, Buenos Aires felt distinctly unfinished.

I like how casually I just wrote that, but when you've finished City of Halves, nothing is a surprise anymore.

She said: "I had always assumed that when Chaplin had finished City Lights, he just had a long holiday.

Venice is habitually characterized as timeless, and New York too, the Never Finished City, strikes me as essentially permanent.

A finished city, polished to a gloss, is also a finished city, incapable of new experience.

"Paris, central Paris, is a finished city," he says, meaning one not in need of improvement — but also, perhaps, one without a plausible future.

I hope he is able to finish "City," and I hope I'm around to read about it when he does.

Chaplin finally re-hired Cherrill to finish City Lights.

Mr. Laird said the city was committed to opening the Waterside Pier as soon as the structural work was finished; the city's Economic Development Corporation recently chose the design and engineering firm to plan the rehabilitation.

But after the building was finished, the city's mayor at the time, Larry Delgado, began hearing from angry constituents.

The Italian was furious in the aftermath of the Bayern game, declaring that, as far as he was concerned, Tevez was "finished" at City.