Sentence examples for like invitations from inspiring English sources

Bette Davis's obvious intelligence and brilliant flamboyance, and Barbara Stanwyck's mixture of sympathy and acid wit, were more like invitations to pleasure.

And shred any other promotional offers someone could use, like invitations to add a card to your account or another phone line.

In wooing such potential donors, networking opportunities like invitations to the chancellor's parent donor reception often sweeten the deal (a $2,500 donation gets you that at Berkeley).

They found you aloof, stingy with power and perks -- like invitations to the governor's box at the Meadowlands or the beach house.

So they pander to the zealots who vote in primaries and treat opportunities for compromise like invitations to burn Old Glory.Second, the federal government has so many checks and balances that it is all but paralysed.

As early as 1919, he had been fascinated by Baudelaire's "Artificial Paradises," in which the poet issues warnings against the drug so seductive that they sound like invitations: "You know that hashish always evokes magnificent constructions of light, glorious and splendid visions, cascades of liquid gold".

But she really likes invitations to special events.

Buy diva-like invitations and decorations that match the same print or design.

Instead, the stilted dialogue and static camerawork leaves The Linguini Incident feeling more like Invitation To Love, the intentionally gaudy soap opera watched by the characters of Twin Peaks.

Other e-commerce retailers that dominate the Middle Eastern market are Aido.com, Awok.com, Amman-based MarkaVIP, which is Gilt Group like invitation-only platform, and Zappos clone Namshi.com.

When "The Good Wife" does a filler episode like "Invitation To An Inquest," at least they usually make them entertaining.