Sentence examples for once overlooked from inspiring English sources

Once overlooked — he was an A.A.U.

He was once overlooked by the star-making basketball industry, partly because of his frame.

But the once overlooked Lin has become an international phenomenon, and made the discounting of Tuesday's tickets probably unnecessary.

Once overlooked by the art world and underappreciated by her family, she becomes a figure of fascination.

The survivors, which once overlooked meadows and weeping willows, are now wedged between McMansions and strip malls.

I may dislike the way gifted education is done because I was once overlooked for a gifted program.

The student reads the question once, overlooking any nuance, and then proceeds back and forth between the cited passage and the answer choices.

Once God overlooked us all, but now the only thing which watches us is the camera.

The trend echoes what has occurred in policing over the past two decades, as the police and prosecutors have focused on offenses that might have once been overlooked, even as rates for more serious crimes have declined, according to the Justice Department.

Perhaps it offers some consolation to the author himself, now 80, retired and once again overlooked for the Nobel prize.Similarly unconventional but considerably less successful is "The Kraus Project", Jonathan Franzen's peculiar attempt to introduce a 21st-century English-speaking audience to the work of Karl Kraus, a 19th-century Austrian critic and satirist.

What was once tolerated, overlooked, or kept quiet now may be publicly censured, and institutions are increasingly sensitive to how faculty can sometimes unwittingly abuse their power over students and employees.