Sentence examples for satisfy the old from inspiring English sources

This seemed to satisfy the old new guys.

Three hours of toil, he thought, was about enough "to satisfy the old Adam in us".

The very fact of pulling off "Boyhood" deserves praise, but the movie's absurd sentimentalization of childhood and adolescence, its vision of a boy and teen without a spark of ferocity, without an evil thought, without energies to tame or impulses to master — without any wildness at heart — could satisfy the old studio system.

Some might still want to work, but a 15-hour week "would be quite enough to satisfy the old Adam in most of us!" I'll throw in Winston Churchill, who, in the booming 50s, predicted "a four-day week, then three days' fun" for British workers.

Like Lord Reith, he believed music was for everybody, and his reply to Pilkington had been meant only as shorthand for the notion that it was just as essential, in his view, to create new expectations in listeners as to satisfy the old.

An accomplished swing singer who has performed with the BBC Proms and released an album of standards, MacFarlane looks like a choice who can satisfy the old-schoolers as well as adding some Ricky Gedgeis-edgeedgegedge

Facts satisfy the older definition of "substance" but not the newer one.

That satisfied the old lady.

Tsvetan Tsvetanov, the Bulgarian interior minister, said in a televised interview that his country was in a "Catch-22," with new requirements put in its way each time it satisfies the old ones.

From an evaluation of the original and modified designs of the thermowells according to the recent PTC code, the original design did not satisfy the new or old requirements, and the modified design simply satisfied the old requirement.

When she performs burial rites for the latter in defiance of King Creon, she outrages the rule of law but satisfies the older, chthonic gods, who defend bonds of blood.