Sentence examples for have been refreshing from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, some of the year's biggest hits have been refreshing anomalies.

In many of these instances, Ken notes, using a different qualifier — familiar, characteristic, usual, unusual, proud, favorite, feared, beloved — or using none at all might have been refreshing.

It would have been refreshing for Lyons to say that something on the Beeb wasn't good enough without the trouble of ordering a review first.

Once checked in, they could retreat to the terrace, which had a roof garden, and in some years skating, and must have been refreshing in the days before air-conditioning.

It would have been refreshing if the circumstances hadn't been so self-serving: she was plugging her son Bobby's new Cooking Channel show, "Not My Mama's Meals," which is devoted to lower-calorie recipes.

"With the cognitive development of children at stake, it would have been refreshing to see humanitarian concerns trump the compulsion to delay litigation with quite so many spurious arguments".

The stretches where the red and white signs have been refreshed provide some of the country's most interesting trekking.

The status quo has remained where elements could have been refreshed,and Oliver's stand-up ability capitalised on.

Dilapidated piazzas have been refreshed, contemporary art galleries have sprung up, and old-school palazzi have been turned into trendy restaurants.

The Surface range of tablets launched last year suffered a $900m writedown for unsold inventory, though the devices have been refreshed for 2013.

The lower-case is in ascendance, @ has flourished, the full stop has been reinterpreted as the "dot" and entire trends have been refreshed by the prefix "cyber".