Sentence examples for once shining from inspiring English sources

Regardless, with each passing week, their once shining reputation emerges a little more tarnished.

Some of Japan's once shining corporate stars, including Sony and Sharp, are struggling with record losses.

An abusive military, deadly ethnic and religious violence, police mutinies and aloof presidential leadership are tarnishing the once shining reputation of Nigeria's president, Olusegun Obasanjo.

Mussorgsky's orchestration, at once shining and murky, creates great blocks of chords, moving with unadorned, almost clumsy simplicity (exactly the characteristic of this composer which Rimsky was keen to polish and refine).

At once shining Hector lifted the helmet from his head, and placed it, gleaming, on the earth; then he rocked his beloved son in his arms and kissed him, and prayed aloud to Zeus and to the other gods; "Zeus, and you other gods, grant now that this child too, my son, will become, even as I am, conspicuous among Trojans, likewise skilled in courage, and rule Ilion in strength.

Al-Jazeera, Qatar's once shining jewel, has also suffered, losing an estimated five million viewers.

The characters who once shined brightest now seem headed toward despair or oblivion.

Not a bad metaphor or mantra for a player whose star once shined brightest of all in baseball, but whose future remains shrouded in question and controversy.

The sun, for once, shone through a break in the lead-gray rain clouds, and a gentle breeze blew through the Blue Trail Shooting Range today.

Now there is a park and bike path -- virtually unused -- where neon lights once shone and ladies of the night gathered.

The idea of the European Union has by now been allowed to seem so narrowly bureaucratic that it is hard for us to recall that it once shone with the light of a romantic vision.