Sentence examples for somewhat elderly from inspiring English sources

But many have been put off taking bridge seriously by unnecessarily complex conventions of play, a hostile tournament atmosphere and a somewhat elderly image.

It has been imported from America and it is booming, especially in London.But the prospect of its appearance in Henley, says Tony Lane, the town's mayor, left the (somewhat elderly) residents aghast.

A somewhat elderly 64, he has a patrician air and at least looks the part of a potential prime minister in a way that his predecessor, Charles Kennedy, never quite did.

The hirsute and somewhat elderly gent keeling over in the G.O.P. green room was John Bolton, the Bush Administration hard-liner who, in 2005 and 2006, spent a year and a half camped out on the East Side trying to insult as many U.N. officials (and foreigners in general) as he could.

He said the continent was becoming "somewhat elderly and haggard" and that the Mediterranean was in danger of tuning into a "vast cemetery" if moves were not taken to tackle the immigration crisis, which every year sees thousands of poor and desperate migrants drowning as they attempt to reach Europe.

He said the EU gave the impression of being somewhat "elderly and haggard", of "weariness and ageing".

There are a Mr Connie and a Mr Penny – mild-mannered and somewhat subdued elderly men who sit at the back and are sometimes overlooked in the interval when their wives are brought glasses of sparkling water and wave to their friends.

Watching a parade of soldiers marching and singing in Berlin one day in the middle of the war, she caught sight of an elderly, somewhat scruffy man, striding along, singing a crude version of Strauss's Radetzky March in tune with them.

SUSAN OSTERER Dear Diary: It was a bright and cool day when I saw a small elderly woman, somewhat shabby but neat, leaning on a late-model Cadillac, holding a paper coffee cup.

Where is the cook?" One case Mr. Kumar pays close attention to is that of Hemant Lakhani, an elderly and somewhat delusional Indian-born British clothing merchant arrested after ostensibly delivering a shoulder-to-air missile to an F.B.I. informant in an Elizabeth, N.J., hotel room.

It is worth noting that prevalence of both headache types peaked in midlife and dropped to its lowest level above 55 years; this somewhat lower prevalence in elderly was previously reported [26].