Sentence examples for terrific old from inspiring English sources

J.D., as we all called him, was a terrific old school newspaperman.

She was having a terrific old age, really tremendous in how she was dealing with everything, and the idea of having her son looking for what, pity?

There are a number of terrific old buildings in the city, but I'm going to pick Helsinki University's new library building, Kaisa-talo.

It was designed by curators from the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City and has some clever participatory displays (particularly those encouraging visitors' play with electrical circuits) along with some terrific old machinery.

But there is no ban on talking about Freud himself: "He is like an old, old bird, he jerks out his arm, commandingly like a terrific old hibou sacré, it scared me to death.

Her mother, Lady Montdore, is a terrific old battleaxe, one of literature's great gems; as is Cedric, who calls everyone "angel" and dresses up as Romance for a fancy-dress ball.

The Tenderloin Big, on the edge of the neighborhood, makes a terrific old-fashioned.

The food is terrific: old-school squid salad, seafood crepes and chocolate mousse.

This is going to be a terrific old-franchise World Series, no matter whether the Cardinals or the Giants end up playing in it.

The fact it remains profoundly moving, and a terrific old-fashioned treat, is testament to David Grindley's scrupulous production, and that Sherriff's play, written in the 1920s and based on his own experience, comes straight from the heart.

They're privy here to a sophisticated international variety of wines by the glass ($10 to $45, with most in the $12 to $18 range) and to special cocktails ($15 to $18) that use fresh-squeezed fruit juices and "house-cracked ice" — the terrific old-fashioned gets one gigantic cube, along with a generous peel of orange.