Sentence examples for gilded years from inspiring English sources

But heavyweight prize-fighting has never matched those gilded years.

Morgan; Wallace Stevens, poet; Charles Dudley Warner, publisher and co-author with Mark Twain of "The Gilded Years".

For example, the Apple/Kristen Wiig drama is based on Curtis Sittenfeld's short story collection, "You Think It, I'll Say It;" a film for Fox 2000 by Hello Sunshine is based on Catherine Steadman's novel "Something in the Water;" and Hello Sunshine's psychological thriller for TriStar Pictures "A White Lie" is based on Karin Tanabe's novel "The Gilded Years".

In the film, based on Karin Tanabe's book The Gilded Years, the 21-year-old actress will portray Anita Hemmings, a light-skinned descendant of slaves who passed as white to access educational opportunities she wouldn't otherwise have.

Ten more private universities, including four in the New York area -- Columbia, New York University, Yale and Hofstra -- paid their presidents between $400,000 and $500,000, and 33 more paid between $300,000 and $400,000, The Chronicle said, making it the "most gilded" year since it started reporting executive pay six years ago.

"The rewards have become so astronomical that the competition for coveted entry-level trading positions has become extremely fierce," mused the magazine's founder in the gilded year 2007.

The crowds circling the composer during his gilded early years raise their hands to him, their fluttering fingers like a joyous swarm of butterflies.

What Woodward desires is a return to the gilded Ferguson years when the great Scot never went more than a season without a trophy after claiming his first, the 1990 FA Cup.

No DVD release this year arrives on shelves more pre-gilded than 12 Years a Slave (Entertainment One, 15), the darling of the last Oscar season – though the rare one, its most ardent champions insist, that is actually for life, not just for Christmas.

Mr. Getty died recently of an undisclosed illness and in doing so emerged for a time back into the world from his thirty-year gilded confinement as a seriously debilitated stroke patient.

But that gilded era was many years ago, and the museum, which is a 45-minute drive from New York City, has fallen into some disrepair.