Sentence examples for once brighter from inspiring English sources

Anyone interested in how art can alter the unalterable, making the past at once brighter and sadder, will treasure Mr. Sundaram's art for that.

That once bright line has blurred since Sept. 11.

And, given recent events, its once bright-eyed staff members privately are worried about its future.

The floats, once bright with zany animal faces, are now dusty, faded and crumpled.

"I'm itching to repaint it," he said, but only because the paint, once bright, is now fading and patchy.

Yet Rattigan fiercely articulates the ­contempt of those who see the once bright young things ­sleepwalking to catastrophe.

Have to Say, like everything here, has a washed-out, brown at the edges sound, as though it was once bright but left to fade in the sun.

Routinely kept in after school and bawled out for their own good, their once bright eyes have taken on a harried nervousness.

"Like a once bright green aspen turning to subtle shades of yellow then red in the Colorado fall, investors' impressions of 'stocks for the long run' or any run have mellowed as well," Mr. Gross wrote.

But less radical changes that have already been made or are now under consideration by the administration, Congress and the judiciary seem very likely to blur the once bright lines separating intelligence gathering, law enforcement and the military.

What underlines all these policies is a focus on bringing finance – that once bright star that ignited and burst into flames – back down to earth and humanising it, giving it an approachable human dimension and scale.