Sentence examples for only a classic from inspiring English sources

"Cannonball" is not only a classic song, it is a classic party song.

The shaping of consumer demand for cars, and especially the idea of introducing newly designed models every year, is not only a classic American story but also one of advertising's historical triumphs.

The single lap joint is the most used test in order to analyse the behaviour of an adhesive in an assembly as on one hand, the manufacturing of such specimens is quite easy, and on the other hand they require only a classic tensile testing machine.

So the idea that this is not only a classic but that it justifies a remake is ludicrous at best.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic in a review of the album Please called the song "hypnotic", adding that "it's not only a classic dance single, it's a classic pop single".

The Christian Science Monitor wrote of it in 1997, "Today her book is not only a classic of environmental literature, it also reads like a blueprint for what conservationists are hailing as the most extensive environmental restoration project ever undertaken anywhere in the world".

In 2007, 57% of respondents in rich countries put themselves in the top four tiers; in emerging markets the share was 33%; in poor countries only 16%—a classic expression of the standard view that richer people are more likely to be happy.

I read Robert Redford's The Outlaw Trail, only available secondhand but a classic account of his search for some truth behind the Butch Cassidy myths.

"To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf, for example, could be labeled not only as a classic or women's fiction, but #modernism, #England and #dinnerparties.

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe (1838) Edgar Allan Poe's only novel – a classic adventure story with supernatural elements – has fascinated and influenced generations of writers.

The story has been tangled by the young woman herself, who repeatedly came forward to accuse the men, only — in a classic pattern, experts say — to continue to see her ostensible tormentors and withdraw some of her charges.