Sentence examples similar to old loss from inspiring English sources

This is also what poems do, always leveraging old losses to reap the next harvest of fresh and unforeseen gains.

His work dwelt faithfully but repeatedly on the old losses, remembered experiences, as if the present could not offer him nourishment equal to the past.

That McEnroe doesn't seem to hold anything back, sounding prickly if he's feeling prickly, drolly bringing up the lingering pain of his old losses, expressing an empathy for every kind of competitor except those who fail to at all times "dig deep," are what make him a lot more interesting than the Andy Roddicks and James Blakes of the tennis world.

For all of the Grassos, the very idea of the trip stirs up thoughts of old losses, ghosts that shadow the present, prompted by the dissonant fact that like many if not most Italian-Americans, Antonio and Mad­dalena Grasso enshrined in their children a glowing image of things Italian yet never took them to Italy or even taught them the language.

Paint cross sections were obtained by prising out small samples adjacent to old losses using a pointed surgeon's scalpel.

Family redemption, old losses now avenged.

So as far as the IRS is concerned, GM hasn't made enough money yet to offset its old losses.

And finally, there is the courage to love -- our selves, each other and the Divine -- when we're plagued with fear of rejection, the pain of old losses and have protected our hearts.

As business conditions quicken, banks’ net interest margins levitate and old loan losses finally slide off the books.

But David Gregory thinks that JP Morgan's big old $2 billion loss is going to renew the old "Wall Street vs. Main Street" fight.

This is how people grow old, from loss, not age, or time, and the skin at my cheekbones tightened in revolt.