It's a terribly old fashioned profession in that regard.
My own once solid building now looked shrunken and terribly old.
Things were still terribly old fashioned, the social texture was very straight.
Remedy has always been the youngest old horse I know, but 34 is terribly old for a horse.
As a young actress, Dench loved being in rep, where you could "make mistakes, and have a go at playing some terribly old person when you were 23.
Scott Thomas is mesmerisingly beautiful, but she refers to herself as an "ageing actress" and keeps saying, "I'm terribly old" or, "I'm positively ancient".
At Hamptons I saw coffee tables, none terribly old, in cowhide ($2,950) and ebonized teak ($1,325) and an awkward pointy model made from a wooden fireplace bellows ($1,900).
Obviously I'm not going to read it myself as it's all terribly old hat to an old lag like me, but I'm told it hasn't dated at all and would be of tremendous value to a new MP.
We adults call it lying, but that's far too blunt for most teenagers, who regard such rigid policing of the boundary between truth and lie as terribly old school.
It was sad that Esther had gotten so terribly old and died, and that Eva, the beautiful girl whom Brod once taught to play the piano, was now making French headlines as the "cat woman septuagénaire" who guards Kafka's papers amid "feline miasmas and angora toxoplasmosis".
Does that seem terribly old fashioned?
