All of Juliet's enjoyable experience of men had been in fantasy: one or two movie stars; the lovely tenor — not the virile heartless hero — on a certain old recording of "Don Giovanni Henry V V, as she'd read about him in Shakespeare and as Laurence Olivier had played him in the movie.
She stood before a tatty display tracing the source of Gabrovian wit to a certain Old Minyo, a 19th-century local of fabled abstemiousness who was said to have carried his shoes on long walks, so as to spare their soles, and who sat in the dark to save candle wax.
He was of a certain old-fashioned type — lanky, large-nosed, with an out-sized Adam's apple.
In a house where cinematic realism rules, David Hockney's spare sets and his use of stylized painted flats has a certain old-fashioned charm.
It's an event almost guaranteed to give a case of the vapours to the rock fan of a certain age, old enough to remember when Hyde Park was the venue to which the nation's freaks flocked for free concerts.
Such ideas are worth reviewing (1) because of the light they throw on important residual elements of popular belief; (2) because they illustrate the distance traveled (or not traveled) between early beliefs and current ones; and (3) because of the relevance of certain old ideas to contemporary debates about brain-stem death and about the philosophical legitimacy of organ transplantation.
Apart from staying pretty rigidly out of certain old-money sectors, Whittall has a few rules of thumb that tell him whether he has a forward-looking or a backward-looking company.
Acoustic Mapping may not reveal the malevolence of certain old hotels, but the photos go a long way toward showing us how we are surrounded by invisible forces interacting on their own.
We pulled the windshield angle and the A pillar pretty far forward because the design team liked the look of certain old Ferraris with similar angles".
Whenever I meet these people they are always of a certain age, either old enough to remember hearing about the disaster themselves or, like me, to have parents who recall it and who can pass on that memory.
Cos and Zara have some lovely things for all ages and – going by the example of a certain 65-year-old woman who once had the honour of giving birth to me – Hobbs, LK Bennett and dear old Marks & Spencer are still quite the ticket.
