Sentence examples for lovely knowing from inspiring English sources

It's a lovely, knowing pastiche of styles, like Clark's version of Frederick Ashton's Facade – and there are parts of Come, Been and Gone that inevitably look underdeveloped by contrast.

In a lovely knowing twist, one of the images is a backstage still taken from the movie Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.

This is where I should have said, I guess we're not a match, it was lovely knowing you.

(Carer, B03) "I think [case manager] is a very busy woman so to pile things onto her would be wrong but it's lovely knowing she's there if I need her, I can pick that phone up, I can even ring her at the surgery and she'd listen which is nice".

"Maybe -- that would be lovely," I said, knowing I wouldn't, couldn't, not with his sperm, knowing he knew that, too.

"She had no way of knowing how lovely she was," as Sylvia Long puts it in her retelling.

"It is just a really lovely and fortunate situation, knowing we're guaranteed two years in the Premiership".

It's a lovely form, a manufactured intimacy, a knowing, writerly dishonesty that allows all manner of truth-telling, digression and playfulness.

You might not arrive at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx knowing who underwrote the lovely restoration of its venerable 50-acre forest along the banks of the Bronx River.

But we leave Lovely* with a heavy heart, knowing that all NGOs working on this issue need to move so much faster if we want to give children like Lovely* the chance of a better life.

Implacable Susan Bickley sings the housekeeper Mrs Grose, Giselle Allen chills as the ghostly Miss Jessel and lovely Joanna Songi reprises her role as knowing, not-so-little Flora.