Sentence examples for venerable gentlemen from inspiring English sources

The four venerable gentlemen started bickering even before they had taken their seats.

It is as true for the venerable gentlemen's clubs, where old chaps gather after a cricket match to play snooker and drink whiskey, as it is for the members-only nightclubs, where young women in halter tops dance on red velvet couches.

And indeed, those venerable gentlemen have a lot to teach us.

Except, as those two venerable gentlemen pointed out, there is indeed great social value derived from their activities.

When that venerable gentleman, who left Boston for the great Southwest in 1942, glowered and turned away, I began to get the point.

At one, a venerable Druze gentleman picking apples smilingly insists we take a dozen.

The idea of an elite that is not motivated by personal gain has a venerable history in our land, dating to gentlemen politicians like Washington and Jefferson and continuing through the progressive reformers and industrialist philanthropists of a century ago, the Harrimans and Roosevelts and Rockefellers.

But the very next paragraph shows us Barrett at her most recklessly self-confident, writing dialogue for the heroine: "Dear Madam... were you then privileged to know the gentleman of this gracious house whilst still he walked these venerable halls?" Nothing much is got right here.

While these two gentlemen are dear old friends, I earned my Ph.D. at a far more venerable institution, the Harvard Government Department, and then way back in 1975.

Heading the musical's creative team is Jule Styne, the venerable and much-lauded 87-year-old composer whose long list of hit shows includes "Gypsy," "Funny Girl" and "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes". Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman, who also collaborated on the recent musical "The Secret Garden," is responsible for the musical's book and (with Paul Stryker) lyrics.

"Here it is, venerable Sir".