Sentence examples for historical touch from inspiring English sources

It is when he reaches the contemporary, however, that Wilson's historical touch deserts him.

While Sansom has an unerring sense of pace and a deft historical touch, he has a tendency to repeat thematic clues.

Mr. Bell's musical ephemera are a historical touch in a cocoon of modernity, a 2,400-square-foot 2,400-square-foot 2,400-square-footden throughout.

"Heartstone," by C. J. Sansom (Viking; $27.95) In his fifth Shardlake mystery, set in Tudor England, Sansom displays an unerring sense of pace and a deft historical touch, but he has tendency to repeat thematic clues.

Outside on Fifty-third Street, the façades of the 1939 structure, with its piano-shaped canopy and square windows, and of the 1964 addition by Philip Johnson, whose larger, milled-steel windows have rounded corners, are refurbished and preserved — a satisfying historical touch in an urban environment not given to many such.

Unlike other competitors in the area, Garage has a historical touch that others lack.

Great American's historical touches, like the reproduction riverboat smokestacks that sit behind the center-field fence, have a bland, even rote, feel.

The four principals of AvroKO, Greg Bradshaw, Adam Farmerie, William Harris and Kristina O'Neal, have plenty of experience designing modern spaces that mix in a few historical touches with carefully chosen fixtures and hardware.

But the group's "no rip-off" policy – which includes free Wi-Fi, complimentary international calls, and local bar prices – appeals to the bargain hunter in both of us, and our twin room is clean and bright with a canal view and quirky, historical touches.

The refurbishment was painstaking; and though the hotel is visually stunning, with a white facade laced with verandas, many quirky historical touches remain, such as bullet holes from when there was a shooting inside one of the rooms.

There were references to the Suffragettes, the Jarrow Marches, Windrush, and other historical touch-points, before the industrial age reached its climax in the form of the welding together of the Olympics rings, which is exactly how it happened, I think.