Sentence examples for instead of glamorous from inspiring English sources

Instead of glamorous, well-heeled tourists with stacks of expensive luggage, most of the passengers are sullen peasants and rowdy drunks.

It's rather like a scene from Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, but instead of glamorous flappers there are medieval monsters sharing the booze and canapés.

As concept albums about a party and the after-party go, think the Weeknd's House of Balloons, only instead of glamorous debauchees it's stoner losers.

The normally easy-going capital has had its share of demonstrators calling for measures to tackle the food crisis instead of building glamorous projects.Some of Mr Wade's friends fear he has dynastic ambitions.

Instead of living the glamorous celluloid life of a skier, Schlopy poured his last $11,000 into a Ford Aerostar almost three years ago and began his coupon-clipper's journey back to the United States ski team.

Hoey remembers being a precocious child who complained about living in Fort Worth, Texas, instead of a more glamorous locale like New York or Hollywood.

Instead of solely depicting glamorous geishas and heroic samurais, Hokusai rendered everyday workers, fisherman, and other urban scenarios that weren't yet immortalized through art.

A three-month strike by Hollywood's writers threatened to ruin the Oscars later this month: actors were unwilling to cross writers' picket lines, so the awards ceremony's organisers planned to show film clips and history instead of the usual procession of glamorous stars.

Instead of looking like a glamorous celebrity, she has been rendered as an abstraction, a living doll.

Charles Farnsley, the mayor of Louisville from 1948 to 1953, suggested that the orchestra, instead of spending money on glamorous soloists, commission new pieces: a policy that the board, though initially shocked, adopted.

It was a time to forget about the clock, to look in the mirror and see a glamorous woman instead of a teenager.