Sentence examples for picture of once from inspiring English sources

Those are the stories that provide the sad and complete picture of once vital manufacturing cities disappearing, inner city neighborhoods being hollowed out, and rural areas being devastated by drugs.

They sketch a picture of man once captivated by the science of the human mind growing increasingly interested in weapons and how to use them.

The financial report provided a mix of positive and worrying news, leaving some analysts without a clear picture of the once powerful, but now struggling, company's long-term future.

But it is also a play about memory: about the ways it fails us and how its imperfections give under the best of circumstances a distorted picture of what once happened.

Interviews with several former aides of Mr. Roh painted a picture of a once proud leader growing despondent in retirement as the country's conservative media hounded his family and prosecutors began asking questions about their finances.

Although the news that a pro cyclist took performance-enhancing drugs is not exactly shocking, the information that came out after years of investigation painted such a negative picture of a once inspirational figure that Armstrong lost not only much of his public support but nearly all of his major endorsements.

This theme could be unintentional, or a weird side-effect of making Kiefer Sutherland a producer, but the logical conclusion is that we'll soon discover that Catelyn Stark's husband originally became a terrorist because he caught his wife tenderly stroking a picture of Jack Bauer once.

He went on to paint a picture of a once idyllic natural world increasingly jeopardized by scientists bent on shaping it to their own visions.

Tolstoy in War and Peace draws an unforgettable picture of how, once battle is engaged, the leaders tend to lose control.

Director of photography Dick Pope, meanwhile, does a grand job at recreating the images that inspired Turner, notably The Fighting Temeraire - a picture of a once great ship being towed away for scrap that recently made a cameo in the James Bond film Skyfall.

I'd even tweeted a picture of it, once: "My ride's here".