Sentence examples for serge from inspiring English sources

At this point, they will surrender their civilian clothes and exchange them for the blue or grey serge prison uniform and headscarf that has to be worn at all times of the day.

The four-day, three-night trips on recently built river cruisers are run by CroisiEurope and include a five-course dinner prepared by the ship's chef, and a wine tasting with master sommelier Serge Dubs.

AJ Inaki Aizpitarte, the self-taught Serge Gainsbourg-like figurehead of the Parisian bistronomic movement (talented young cooks rebelling against Michelin by serving ambitious food in modest premises) is going to be spending a lot of time on the Eurostar this year.

First, co-founder Gilbert Trigano gave the top job to his son Serge rather than to his then-equal number two, Jean-Robert Reznik, who was generally considered to have a better grasp of marketing.Second, going upmarket usually seems like a sound business tactic getting more revenue per customer.

A handful of casual references in which pleasure is one's own are slickly antithetical to any male musician – from Serge Gainsbourg to Skinny Puppy – who ever plunked the sound of a woman moaning into a song for the sake of masculine bravado.

A delight also to find Ken Worpole and Jason Orton's important text and image essay The New English Landscape (Field Station); Vagabond Witness (Zero Books), Paul Gordon's beautifully written advocacy of the great Victor Serge; and the wondrous book-length concertina poem/portrait collaboration Correspondences by Anne Michaels and painter Bernice Eisenstein (Bloomsbury).

At Courtrai in 1960 Sister Marcella was one of only nine scattered among 40 neat white houses, sleeping in snowy linen in their narrow serge-curtained beds.

She fulfils her longing for militant action by campaigning to save local allotments.Their daughter Clara (named after Clara Zetkin, a German proto-feminist), and son Serge Victor Sergee, a Belgian-Russian revolutionary) are somewhat different.

Commissioned in the 1930s as an arts centre for the people of Bexhill, the De La Warr Pavilion, designed by architects Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff, has always felt open and expansive.

Yet Jean-René Fourtou, until last month président directeur général combined chief executive and chairman—of Vivendi, a media and telecoms firm, and Serge Tchuruk, in the same position at Alcatel, a telecoms equipment-maker, recently promoted a dismembering of their roles into separate posts of chairman and chief executive.Why?

He also hoped to reap rewards from Gucci's majority stakes in the companies of Stella McCartney and Alexander McQueen, two talented and young British designers.The search for successors will be carried out by a committee that will be led by Serge Weinberg, PPR's chief executive.