Sentence examples for neglected older from inspiring English sources

But directors of some of the county's smaller museums are demanding that the county use funds generated by the shiny new arrival to feed its neglected older siblings.

His first professional role came two years later, as the neglected older sibling of a spelling prodigy in Bee Season, alongside Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche.

But they are surely interested in neglected older works, as was clear on Monday night at Alice Tully Hall when L'Opera Francais de New York, conducted by its artistic director, Yves Abel, presented a concert performance of Ferdinand Herold's 1831 opera comique, "Zampa".

Just as Salinger was said to have spent most of his waking hours in a bunkerlike studio apart from his family, so the grimly ascetic Dyer hides from the world behind the "forbidding door" of his office, while his two neglected older sons hover outside, beguiled in spite of themselves.

Not that Mr. Andrews neglected old-fashioned verbal playfulness.

Thanks to the social security system that was expanded after World War II, they were better protected against the hazards of illness, unemployment, and a neglected old age.

The British Museum has remarkably managed to turn itself from a neglected old London institution to regain its rightful place as one of the world's leading museums.

Mr. Harding and Père de Vaux had already, long before finding the new manuscripts, had the notion of investigating a hitherto neglected old ruin not far from the original cave, and in November of 1951 had started digging it out.

Generally, school boards that want to abandon neglected old schools argue that it would cost millions of dollars to bring them up to modern standards -- often more than it would cost to build a school from the ground up.

With a blue tarpaulin over one end and a collapsed floor, 'Hut 6' looks like a neglected old shed, but chief executive of the trust Simon Greenish confirms it is "arguably one of the most important buildings of its type in the world".

In a sign of the difficulties facing the Conservative leader, Ann Winterton, the Tory MP for Congleton, said that he lacked experience and was neglecting older voters.