LONDON — As the last gleaming, pearl-trimmed shoe disappeared from the runway, Simone Rocha took a lightning bow, before greeting backstage her two most important guests: Her parents.
Strongly contra, I pointed out that an American anthem whose syntax runs backwards and whose antecedents are so vaguely specified (I don't get it? What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Though he could not have known it at the time, the film was to be his last gleaming as well, the final great work of a great American filmmaker.
The mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves began to sing: Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
At the end of a protracted and often painful shedding of false hopes, their long twilight will finally reach its last gleaming next Saturday when Wayne Rooney leads his team-mates into the Stade Vélodrome.
Strongly contra, I pointed out that an American anthem whose syntax runs backwards and whose antecedents are so vaguely specified (I don't get it? What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Oh, I see — the flag!) and whose point seems to be that you can lose the fort as long as you can still see the banner, all action to no particular end, is beloved from use, not sense.
Management consulting firm A.T. Kearney has presented four such futures for the United States, from "twilight's last gleaming" to "so gallantly streaming".
I have read heaps of agricultural & horticultural books, & have never ceased collecting facts At last gleams of light have come, & I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.
Oh, say! can you see by the dawn's early light / What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming / Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight / O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
