Sentence examples for of a bygone generation from inspiring English sources

Tobias Stone and Henry Francis were special inductees, respectively winning the Von Zedtwitz Award for players of a bygone generation and the Blackwood Award for services to the game other than at the table.

In Miss Shoemaker's Stalinist homeroom of a bygone generation, Peter's sin was a transgression comparable to one that would trigger metal detector alarms to scream at today's school entrances.

The squad that had to perform to the tune of that shambolic backdrop consisted mostly of the last standing warriors of a bygone generation, and a few novices whose first taste of representing the country was being thrown to the wolves without any sensible preparation.

But his commentary, which aims to make the concerns of a bygone generation of intellectuals accessible to today's readers, ends up subtly belittling them.

This is optimistic: the last Democrat to win a Senate seat from Mississippi was John Stennis in 1982, and he was of a bygone generation, having supported racial segregation for much of his life and voted against the Civil Rights Act in 1964.Iowa's Republican primaries were less brutal, but equally colourful.

In that sense, the city is little different from the place a bygone generation of Americans visited for long-weekend romps of sex and sun and rum-filled cocktails.

But that association comes from a bygone generation, one that came of age in a very different era, and should no longer be applied to the upcoming cadre of older adults.

In 1977, the high-water mark of that bygone generation of light entertainment, people like Bruce Forsyth and Eric Morecambe seemed to have "British Broadcasting Corporation" stamped right through them like a stick of rock.

Skeptics of those bygone generations would have sat down on the spot to write me that 300-word essay I asked for.

This British label has established its coveted aesthetic as a mix of modern-classic prints and retro-styled but timeless cute buttons and pockets, reinventing garments beloved of bygone generations.

It's strangely anthropological, like examining the artefacts of a bygone civilisation – only, of course, it's our own, a generation removed.