As we drove on, Mr. Pace practically yelped at the sight of aging potato trucks on Oregon Road, lined up side by side.
I did not add that I was determined to shun self-pity, that I had privately promised to avoid replicating a scene I had so often witnessed: namely, the sight of aging colleagues who no longer occupied offices but continued to haunt the corridors of the department in search of welcoming faces.
However, the sight of an aging bearded man, his face red with lust, about to force his attentions upon a naked woman asleep on a couch is not everyone's cup of tea, not even under the excuse of dealing with the mythological theme of "Jupiter and Antiope".
So she plays all the angles: providing services like laser resurfacing while pooh-poohing the search-for-eternal-youth, "hope in a bottle" approach while conceding the panic that accompanies catching sight of your aging reflection in the mirror: "It happens one day.
It's a romanticized tale about selling off the favors of a young virginal woman and its highlight is the now creepy sight of the aging Maurice Chevalier crooning "Thank Heaven For Little Girls".
The sight of these aged saws coming from so young a head had the entire conference on its feet at the end of his speech.
When, at 29, Siddhartha stepped outside, he was confronted with the sight of the aged, the diseased and the dead, an experience that shook him so powerfully that he left his father's home the following day, embracing life as an ascetic.
She stated that it took her four days to get over the sight of herself aged so drastically, and compared the feeling to having an "electric shock".
Not for Newman the sight of an ageing wonder dancing the night away with starlets a quarter of his age.
There's no denying their talent – and there certainly aren't many Englishmen who can boast their record of international success – but the very sight of their ageing blond frontman, performing instead of the more celebrated English icons many had expected to see instead, brought pain to many British souls.
The Premier League sniffed a little at the sight of the ageing Eto'o in a Chelsea shirt, but he remains a three-time Champions League winner, brilliant team-man and a superb finisher with both feet who, even at 33-going-on-36 has a compelling sense of big-game composure about him.
