Sentence examples for red-letter days from inspiring English sources

As for annual dates, the red-letter days fare best: St Swithin's Day (Billy Bragg, Valentinee's Day (ABC) and New Year's Day (U2).

THE Pebble Beach concours and nearby auctions offer a week's worth of red-letter days for lovers of vintage automobiles.

They are hardly red-letter days: more of a rough, pencilled scrawl, as Llewyn Davis Oscar Isaacc) goes about his ordinary business.

On the wall of the Lloyds TSB in the athletes' village is a timeline of red-letter days entitled "Our Journey To 2012".

Rolling Stone judged the album "exceptionally good", while Cashbox stated, "This album is one of those red-letter days when everything falls together as a total sound", and called it "an important record that should go to the top with proper handling".

This day — well, this was a red-letter day.

Then why does a clear recollection of that red-letter day, as if too painful, refuse to reach consciousness?

LONDON — It might have been a real red-letter day when John Henry, the American principal owner of Liverpool, posted 835 words to the fans on the club's Web site on Monday.

"I would guess that 50 years from now, the high school civics books will treat Nov. 6, 2012, as a red-letter day in the history of the gay rights movement," said Michael J. Klarman, a law professor and historian at Harvard.

For anyone concerned with the pursuit of truth, repelled by the raking of muck, or mildly interested in the shaky state of England, Thursday may or may not have been a red-letter day, but was certainly worthy of bold type.

When envy rears its head, you can do one of three things: type in the #Boring hashtag to see who is having a duvet, rather than a red-letter, day; wonder at the pictures collected on boringinstagramphotos – unappetising canteen meals being a speciality; or get real, and log off.