Sentence examples for lonely standard from inspiring English sources
Roger Federer, win or lose, sets the lonely standard.
Beijing gives Donald Trump a lesson in history Trump's victory has left German chancellor Angela Merkel as the lonely standard bearer for liberal values, with Barack Obama landing in Germany for a symbolic passing of the torch.
Even among MPs on the right of the Tory party, who had long seen the 51-year-old Scot as a lonely and vital standard bearer for their brand of Conservatism in a coalition cabinet too inclined to bend to the will of Lib Dems, the reaction was one of acceptance.
Virginia Spencer Carr, a literary scholar whose book "The Lonely Hunter" remains the standard biography of Carson McCullers, died on April 10 at her home in Lynn, Mass.
His first serious band, the Lonely Ones, played soul standards around Kent between 1961 and 1963.
The ceremony at City Hall where Mayor Bloomberg signed the bill into law was somewhat lonely by bill-signing standards.
When the lonely narrator of this Rodgers and Hart standard sang, "I admire the moon, as a moon, just a moon," you didn't think of a paper orb sailing over a cardboard sea but of a cold, distant hunk of rock.
In this rumination — not quite a biography, not quite a novel — Mrs. Nixon emerges, much like the standard popular image, as lonely, inward-looking and long-suffering.
This double standard is well illustrated in the admirable Lonely Planet guide to Antarctica.
This need struck me all at once; I began to find myself lonely during my workday -- a feeling not in my standard repertoire.
