Sentence examples for remarkable streets from inspiring English sources

The Calzada del Cerro, the main street of the once prosperous El Cerro neighborhood, is one of the most remarkable streets in the world: three unbroken kilometres of nineteenth-century neoclassical villas, with columned arcades making an urban vista of heartbreaking beauty--linear monumentality of a sort that exists nowhere else, except, perhaps, in Bologna.

The Calzada del Cerro, the main street of the once prosperous El Cerro neighborhood, is one of the most remarkable streets in the world: three unbroken kilometres of nineteenth-century neoclassical villas, with columned arcades making an urban vista of heartbreaking beauty--linear monumentality of a sort that exists nowhere else, except, perhaps, in Bologna..

There, he cut costs, pulled the ailing bank into the black and sold it to JPMorgan in 2004, setting the stage for a remarkable Wall Street comeback.

The collapsed electrical retailer Comet is to make a remarkable high street comeback, with up to 80 stores opening in the next two years.

Roughly four years after his stint on the hymn committee, George Templeton Strong overheard something remarkable in the streets of New York.

Jonathan Trott has, at his own pace, been one of England's finest one-day batsmen, maintaining an average of 51 over 68 matches, a remarkable achievement and streets ahead of anyone else.

And Mr. Ma worked with one of his latest collaborators, the dancer Charles Riley, a k a Lil Buck, who applied a remarkable mix of street dance and classical ballet moves to "The Swan," by Saint-Saëns.

The writer Damon Runyon had a remarkable ear for street-speech and Loesser's lyrics brilliantly reproduce that vernacular tang – the words "I", "Me" or "My" stud the songs – while establishing that, among paradigms of rhymes, he was the bridge between Cole Porter and Stephen Sondheim.

Batting.750 is remarkable, on Wall Street or in government.

All of which made it rather remarkable when a 2006 street excavation near the South Street Seaport turned up two of the company's original wooden pipes, 12 and 14 feet long, entirely intact.

The sentiments are echoed in the streets, most remarkable perhaps for the simple notion that no one — not young men filming, not fathers hoping for a glimpse of defiance and not grandmothers chanting from their balconies — seems ready to give up.