Sentence examples for may have dated from inspiring English sources

Elements may have dated but the magic is still there in Cocteau's wondrously imaginative rendition of the fairytale.

Finally, Phil Ochs' references to Hubert Humphrey and Medgar Evers may have dated, but his barbed observations still draw blood.

The song may have dated – it feels a bit like listening to, say, Round the Horne on Radio 4 Extra – but after 45 years it remains funny.

Wilder's own literary ambitions were, she told Lane, for "prestige" rather than for money, and they may have dated to her youth, though they had been thwarted by a married life of hardship and calamity.

The film may have dated as a cautionary left-wing tale, yet it has stayed fresh as a study in the minutiae of power — the hand on the shoulder, the dismissive wave, or the patronizing squeeze of a cheek.

The Marx Brothers' movies may have dated but, thanks to my dad, I started watching them when I was very young and I was charmed by their lunacy long before I'd realised that they were running amok in the distant 1930s.

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I didn't want to hear about Chouky's war years back then; I wanted to hear about Jean Renoir, whose son she may or may not have dated, and Sidney Bechet, at whose wedding she danced.

You may have a dated, stereotypically seedy mental image accompanying the words "Bangkok hotel room".

In an attempt to make it more modern with the two-color beveling it may have actually dated itself to the aughts forever.

Lester added: "It breathed fresh life into a play that people may have found dated".