Sentence examples for valedictory visit from inspiring English sources

He found one such opportunity while paying what turned out to be a valedictory visit to Moss on Greene Street.

It was a valedictory visit to England for him, and he was accompanied by his partner, the writer Bill Hayes.

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton flew here on Friday for a brief, valedictory visit that contrasted calls for peace with the discovery of two bombs unconnected with her diplomacy, underscoring the continued power of sectarian passions almost 15 years after a formal peace accord brokered partly by her husband.

"The most damning narrative would be hard to shake off that a Pakistan-based Uighur separatist group masterminded a successful suicide attack in the most visible location in China during the valedictory visit of Pakistan's army chief," Mr Small writes.Still, if there were recriminations they were not made public.

BAGHDAD — President Bush made a valedictory visit on Sunday to Iraq, the country that will largely define his legacy, but the trip will more likely be remembered for the unscripted moment when an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at Mr. Bush's head and denounced him on live television as a "dog" who had delivered death and sorrow here from nearly six years of war.

Mr. Goldthwait grew disenchanted with comedy, making destructive valedictory visits in 1994 to Jay Leno's "Tonight Show" (setting his chair on fire) and "The Arsenio Hall Show" (spray-painting graffiti on the set).

Introductory handshakes dissolve into valedictory bearhugs as students visit Mr. Rosenquist's studio in Aripeka, Fla., for a tutorial in Pop Art techniques; create images of a moment when "the earth moved," for Mr. Weber in New York; or fine-tune their emotions, physicality and, in Mr. Akins's case, diction for Ms. Turner in Washington.

In Klein's account, Morse enjoys unrivalled success with the telegraph in 1844; finds domestic happiness four years later, when he marries his young, poor, deaf cousin; makes a valedictory trip to Europe to visit Hans Christian Oersted's laboratory in 1856; gains "both fortune and fame at home and abroad"; and dies "rich and revered in April 1872".

Starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as geriatric terminal-cancer patients who undertake an implausible valedictory tour of excess — skydiving, visiting the Taj Mahal, and getting to the foothills of Everest — the film grossed more than a hundred and seventy-five million dollars, despite scathing reviews.

— With less than a year to go in office, President Bush has begun offering valedictory courtesies to favored foreign leaders, including a much coveted ranch visit this weekend to the Danish prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Now, in Mr. Roth's elegiac new novel, "Exit Ghost" — a kind of valedictory bookend to "The Ghost Writer" — Nathan returns to New York to visit a doctor, and finds himself being tempted, against his better judgment, back into the maelstrom of life.