Sentence examples for valediction from inspiring English sources

For his cabinet valediction he donned a skullcap and read from the Bible.

How well our non-Anglo citizens do in Texas is how well Texas will do.The San Antonio Express-News gives a valediction:As we mourn for Texas, we should rejoice for the nation, for his value as a public servant will now be expanded to 49 other states.

Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] GreenspanSIR – Your mean-spirited valediction on Alan Greenspan suggests to me that he got it right after all ("Danger time for America", January 14th).

As a retiring teacher writes in his valediction, current educational philosophy "strangles creativity, it smothers the development of critical thinking in our students and assumes a one-size-fits-all mentality more appropriate to the assembly line than the classroom".

But it was also a valediction.

The verse romance genre was diversely exploited well into the 14th century, but by then Jean Froissart's contribution, Méliador (1383 88), was only a ponderous valediction to romance's golden age, and prose was the principal form (see below Prose literature).

In the disfigured street He left me, with a kind of valediction, And faded on the blowing of the horn.

But Stephen Medcalf's delicate 1940s production makes Capriccio a valediction to pre-fascist Germany, the elderly composer's sorrow, bafflement and nostalgia conveyed in the tender face of the Countess (Susan Gritton) as she takes her place on a scruffy rehearsal stage and listens to the music curling up from the orchestra pit.

A love story that had begun with the carefree coloratura and enraptured suspensions of "Tanti strali" ended with "Tu del ciel ministro eletto", the most serene of Handel's great arias, sung here as a valediction by a newly widowed woman, minus the counter-argument of the middle section and the consoling balm of the da capo repeat.

On the day the bill went to the President, July 2nd, Smith pronounced his valediction in the House.

Tradition regards this stately valediction, this folding up of the sorcerer's equipment, as not only Prospero's but Shakespeare's.