Sentence examples for lost glorious from inspiring English sources

A melancholy fills the policeman's eyes, as if recalling a lost, glorious age, and we drive off, slowly, to pay the £30 fine.

And then she looks me in the eye and asks, 'I'm not so scary, am I?' Raise the issue of eating disorders during Fashion Week, and someone will inevitably bring up that lost, glorious era of the supermodel: Christy, Naomi, Cindy, Linda, the four-headed stompy-legged beast with big shiny hair, the one that wouldn't get out of bed for less than $10,000.

Quite so: no one called for wholesale changes to Frank Worrell's West Indians after they narrowly lost the glorious series of 1960-61.

We should not despair at losing those glorious optical images like those provided by the Hubble, however.

But will we lose that glorious old feeling when the first stroke of the conductor's baton said "Enter a different world"?

In fact, to pick up on a point Jim Squires made on this blog a few days ago, more and more of the horses that appeared at the sales seem to have been given steroids, often resulting a shock for the buyer, when he took the horse home from the sale and it rapidly lost all the glorious muscle tone that had been in evidence in the auction ring.

The French fleet had suffered a series of setbacks in the early years of the war: in addition to the losses at Groix, seven ships had been lost at the Glorious First of June in 1795 and more were wrecked during the failed Croisière du Grand Hiver operation of 1795 and the Expédition d'Irlande in 1796.

"I lost that battle in glorious fashion," he offered.

But spaghetti with sea urchin is a mirage, the creature's glorious brine lost in the muddy broth ($19).

But even if Hairspray, in the process of being turned into a Broadway musical, has lost some of its glorious tackiness, it retains its generous spirit: this is still a show that not only hymns physical difference but also the basic right to racial integration.

Perhaps most sadly, most of the ensembles have been axed, and so you lose Sondheim's glorious harmonies and the true sense of solidarity built through "No One is Alone".