Sentence examples for silly old man from inspiring English sources

"He dreams, he has visions, but he's basically a silly old man," Father Callahan said.

The deserter delivers Samuel's epitaph: He was a silly old man, and being dead doesn't change that.

And that, I am sure, is what will be remembered long after this silly old man has finally got off the stage.

Robert Duncan wrote a poem about the relationship between Satie and the "silly old man" Péladan, in which he imagines the composer asking: Is there a place for such posing to be containd?

"I was reading some J.R.R Tolkien quotes (don't ask), and came across this one: 'I have always found cricket a bore: chiefly, though, because I was not good at it.' Silly old man, BUT interestingly it appears the that the Riders of Rohan (of The Lord of the Rings fame) ate, yes you guessed it, BADGERS!

He's amusing in the first scenes, a silly old man sopping up praise from his daughters with unabashed pleasure, the doddering right of an old man.

Music, books, playing football for Finsbury Rovers (a bunch of silly old men).

In the 1990s, the Sex Pistols and the Velvet Underground comebacks both prompted mocking comments of the "stop it, you silly old men" variety.

The author treats his sibling as if he wasn't there - an offstage intellectual stooge with no personality or individual existence beyond a handful of basic facts, such as his age, geographical location and the characteristically Barnesian first words of his elder child ('Bertrand Russell is a silly old man').

Either he sounds like a silly, deluded old man trying to do something he can't (and it is true that his voice won't quite negotiate his own colorful key change at the end), or he sounds like the distilled essence of 19th-century American idealism making its last, fiery stand.

He is a silly little old man thats obssesed with money.G.S.T GREEDY SODS TAX!!!! Seems like your Island ministers are determined to make Jersey into an exclusive place where only the mega rich can live and visit.