Sentence examples for the passing of a certain from inspiring English sources

Many protested at the passing of a "certain solemnity" conveyed by Oxford formal dress.

Who could tell how far the new service would go?" In 1924 Cecil Lewis was already regretting the passing of a certain pioneering spirit: "The microphone that is tied up with bits of string, the switches that are falling to pieces, and the gadgets that won't work unless they are coaxed by someone who knows how.

Brett Morgen and Nanette Burstein directed this documentary, about the passing of a certain kind of Hollywood glamour, but Mr. Evans, who will be 73 next month, is the star, subject and wonderfully unreliable narrator -- Thursday at 9 p.m. and Thursday/Early Friday at 5 20 a.m. on HBO.

"He sees the passing of a certain kind of culture, the Afrikaner culture and some literary traditions dying," said Marianne McDonald, a professor of classics and theater at the University of California at San Diego, who is writing a book about Mr. Fugard.

Along those lines, Ludwig Von Mises observed long ago that success in socialist countries wasn't based on one's human capacity, but was instead a function of "compliance with certain forms, the passing of certain examinations, attendance at certain schools".

That is why their deaths seem to me to signify the sad and portentous passing of a certain generational type.

With the passing of time, certain parts of the oath lost their relevance.

Some early treatises such as those of Cicero on the pleasantness of old age or on the art of "divination," Seneca on anger or clemency, and Plutarch on the passing of oracles presage to a certain degree the form and tone of the essay, but not until the late 16th century was the flexible and deliberately nonchalant and versatile form of the essay perfected by the French writer Michel de Montaigne.

But this past year was perhaps more memorably defined by the passing of certain ideas: the eschatological promise of the Y2K bug, the supposed invincibility of the dot-com revolution, the limitless trajectory of Clinton-era prosperity, the pristine certainty of the electoral process.

However, these spaces are also under attack through the passing of laws that prohibit certain activities after a certain time, even behind the closed doors of private enterprise.

For gay men of a certain age, the passing of Donna Summer last week was a significant loss.