Sentence examples for once defined from inspiring English sources

Politics was once defined as "show business for ugly people".

Spain had lacked the assuredness that had once defined them.

The walls that once defined offices are gone.

Elegance, not anarchy, once defined this resting place.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH once defined poetry as emotion recollected in tranquillity.

Gone, too, are the sounds that once defined the town.

A series once defined by villains has mostly turned vanilla.

Freud once defined repression quite benignly as a refocusing of attention away from unpleasant ideas.

Slim Aarons once defined his job as "photographing attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places".

The art of advertising photography was once defined as "turning crap into mediocrity".

Samuel Taylor Coleridge once defined him as "intellectual power deserted by all grace, all moral principle".