Sentence examples for wake of the second from inspiring English sources

Tolkien began "The Lord of the Rings" in the wake of the First World War, whose carnage he experienced firsthand, and he finished it in the wake of the Second.

In the wake of the second world war, some of this vision became a reality.

Everybody knows that Berlin, in the immediate wake of the Second World War, was a city in fragments.

But New York Crane has come in for increased scrutiny in the wake of the second accident.

Democracy flourished in the west in the wake of the Second World War, and a 30-year economic and population boom.

In the wake of the Second World War, nations began signing on to the fourth Geneva Convention, a protocol on the treatment of civilians in time of war.

When the public first met Woolley, he was put out when, in the wake of the second-biggest Derby upset, all anyone wanted to talk about was how he drove Mine That Bird from New Mexico to Churchill Downs.

It portrayed the battle between good and evil – most famously in Tolkien – as an absolute struggle, and it did so in the wake of the Second World War.

These endowments provided a significant proportion of the charity's income and continued until the early years of the NHS, in the wake of the Second World War.

In the wake of the Second Vatican Council in the mid-1960s, the Catholic Church began offering confession in "reconciliation rooms," rather than the traditional booths.

By Anthony Lane Everybody knows that Berlin, in the immediate wake of the Second World War, was a city in fragments.