Sentence examples for kwai from inspiring English sources

IT HAPPENS in trendy bars in Lan Kwai Fong, on the Star Ferry crossing the harbour, or deep underground in the Mass Transit Railway.

His father, who inspired it, died the day he wrote the last page.Correction: In the original version of this article we said that David Niven was the moustachioed actor in "Bridge on the River Kwai".

And yet Mr Flanagan strives to show just how both the Japanese and their captives survived the war and were changed by the experience.Despite the book's setting, Mr Flanagan has been careful not to conjure up the spirit of "Bridge on the River Kwai".

Sir John Gielgud, who was often cruel when he meant to be kind, once asked why Guinness did not do more of "those little parts you do so well".He was magnificent in Ealing film comedies such as "Kind Hearts and Coronets", and when he played neurotic officers in "The Bridge on the River Kwai" and "Tunes of Glory".

During the dreary draw with Nigeria, England supporters in the stadium, much praised for their failure (so far) to smash up bars and their friendship with Japanese fans, entertained themselves with renditions of the theme tune from "Bridge on the River Kwai", a classic film portraying the sufferings of the British in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps.

JUST two weeks ago, Carl Icahn, a corporate raider, was in full swing at a presentation to investors, accusing Richard Parsons, chief executive of the world's biggest media company, of clinging to his fancy head-office building in Manhattan like Colonel Nicholson defending his bridge in the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai".

Among those who fled to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek and his nationalist regime were many of China's most accomplished chefs, including Pang Chang-kwai, a Hunanese legend.

Khwae Noi River, also called Kwai River, Thai Mae Nam Khwae Noi, tributary of the Mae Klong River, flowing wholly in western Thailand.

In last week's review of Richard Flanagan's "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" ("Remembrance", July 5th) we claimed that David Niven was the moustachioed actor in "Bridge on the River Kwai".

Before then Mr Zeman's main service to the public had been to transform warehouses into a wildly popular drinking district known as Lan Kwai Fong.

He returned to prominence with the prisoner-of-war drama The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), a film noted for its psychological battles of will and taut action sequences.