Sentence examples for tommy being from inspiring English sources

Mr Gove is essentially right in his analysis of how the previous decades have sought to paint the First World War as the brave Tommy being ordered to his slaughter by an out of touch elite.

Tommy being Tommy, it wouldn't surprise me if, despite reservations, he saw in Michael the potential for a calmer, less troubled Arthur, a knife that doesn't break when you set it at your foes.

Perhaps movie-makers are responding to an increased fetishisation of children in wider society and are wary of doing anything politically incorrect (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore shows Tommy being spanked, abandoned on a road-side and left in cheap motels for long evenings without a babysitter – all unimaginable today).

His youngest son, known as "Tommy", is the only one of his six children to be convicted of corruption (and, later, of having one of the judges murdered).

But more than that, Tommy was a major Broadway play for years in the 1990s.

Playwrights like Danai Gurira and directors like Liesl Tommy are a rare thing on Broadway - Black African Women running their own show.

See THE GAYEST STORY EVER TOLD TOMMY LUCENTE Tommy is our production manager, which means he oversees the printing of the very magazine you're holding in your grubby little paws.

When Caruso arrived, the Tommies were 2-8 and had not won an outright M.I.A.C. title since 1983.

Instead of no resistance, the Tommies were met with machine-gun fire.

By contrast, the lowly Tommies were for Keith simply "toy soldiers", "childlike youths without strength to endure or brains to improve their conditions".

He counters the contemporary view that working-class Tommies were led by a posse of old men intent on imperial glory, to be mown down in the mud.