Sentence examples for once lovely from inspiring English sources

How at once lovely and unsettling these paintings are; they rock the mind as well as the eye.

Over the weekend, a massive truck bomb exploded in Mogadishu, the sprawling, once lovely capital of Somalia.

A largely self-taught illustrator, Mr. Sendak was at his finest a shtetl Blake, portraying a luminous world, at once lovely and dreadful, suspended between wakefulness and dreaming.

'Every hyacinth the garden wears / dropped in her lap from some once lovely head.' " "What are you going on about now?" "A poem, sir, by a Mr. Khayyam.

He takes back the knife of consumerism and makes of it something wild and strange, imperfect, terrible, disturbing, unpredictable, mutable, at once lovely and unbearable.

In trying to bring its decaying downtown back to health, Philadelphia has chosen to knock down much of its business district, once lovely and humanely scaled, and build aggressively new and much higher buildings.

CONS: Once-lovely Japanese gardens need attention; baths are small.

Now the once-lovely hills are burnt to white ash, populated only by the blackened skeletons of olive trees.

She'll now have to soil her once-lovely hands — the hands of an actress who abandoned her career for this disappointing marriage — by cooking dinner.

When you stand on a high street and count half a dozen charity shops within 100m and see that most of the rest sell low-grade tat or even just tattoos, you know a once-lovely town is in trouble.

And how about the less extreme cases -- those women who are in once-lovely relationships that have started to deviate from their formerly glorious states?