Sentence examples for lost grandeur from inspiring English sources

It will forever be haunted by the ghosts of lost grandeur.

She has successfully presided over a £45m redevelopment, bringing back much of the gallery's lost grandeur, which had been planned before her arrival.

But its size and echoes of lost grandeur are a reminder of older times.

And far from finding them an eyesore, residents say that these fireplace "ghosts" remind them of a lost grandeur in residential living.

Out of place and isolated, it evokes a certain lost grandeur until you get close; then it brings to mind the work of several other artists.

Two new books — "My Lunches With Orson" and "Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations" — unearth vintage conversations with the stars in their final years, when they were broke, in bad health, unable to get work and mourning their lost grandeur.

Without the reverberations of the hall, the music lost its grandeur and chime.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, wants to restore the country's lost Ottoman grandeur and burnish public morality.

Small tapestries in cotton, linen, and synthetic threads, by the Russian Zhenya Machneva, depict obsolete factories, abandoned heroic statuary, and other remnants of lost Soviet grandeur.

It had lost its grandeur, and I wondered whether the palm trees that we had carefully planted in its four courtyards were alive, or had they withered like everything else in Iraq?

(Neil Genzlinger) Off Off Broadway 'The Etiquette of Death' There are some terrifically strange moments in Chris Tanner's new production, and Steven Hammel's set gives glittery echoes of lost Hollywood grandeur.