Sentence examples for rustic past from inspiring English sources

On a July afternoon along Turkbuku's buzzing seaside boardwalk, the village's rustic past and glamorous present rubbed sun-tanned shoulders.

The genre had been revived during the 1950s when, as an anti dote to the so-called Trümmerfilme, or "rubble films", Heimat films became popular, if conservative, celebrations of Germany's rustic past.

Western towns of scenic splendor where everybody knows everybody else and the heads of wild animals line the walls of the general store reflect a rustic past that more Americans want to experience.

So much so, in fact, that the company negotiated the placement of a Saab in an upcoming Reese Witherspoon movie called "Sweet Home Alabama," about a New York socialite who has to confront her rustic past in the South.

In 1978 Darley was writing in the Hovis-ad period of phoney nostalgia for a rustic past and she had a sharp eye for illusion, noting how the cottage was designed so that its exterior was gratifyingly quaint to the superior eye, and to hell with those who had to perch in its poky rooms.

Westerners writing about Japan tend to fall into two camps — those enraptured with its modernity, the idea that frenetic, hypertrophied Tokyo somehow represents the future, or others, like Martha Sherrill, the author of "Dog Man," who find in Japan's remote regions an anachronistic respite that harks back to our rustic past.

Lynley is the creation of the novelist Elizabeth George, the first American whose stories have been adapted for "Mystery!" But this film, with its Yorkshire setting and parade of English sophisticates and rustics, brushing past one another with sparks of caste prejudice, should make American devotees feel right at home away from home.

The upside is Google takes you on smaller roads, past rustic barns and soybean farms.

Every January, as the industry's wellspring of narcissists head to Scamdance (12,146 films submitted at roughly $80 a pop; 27 films selected), I quietly drive east through the Redlands Highlands, past rustic Beaumont and Calimesa, to humble, unheralded Cherry Valley.

Turn left and follow the path through the trees, over the stream and past a rustic bridge.

A long line of fans snaked past its rustic vegetarian baguettes with Andante goat cheese, awaiting striped boxes of Krispy Kreme doughnuts.