Sentence examples for was seldom allowed from inspiring English sources
Yet, as he complained later, he was seldom allowed to sing boleros.
The testimonies at the Tassi trial show that she was seldom allowed out of the house and Orazio was too fringe a figure to have any access to Rome's cultural elite.
He was seldom allowed on the top floor at Wahnfried but, when he was, he would daringly tickle the unmoving feet of his grandmother Cosima, lying in black on her huge chaise longue, while his sisters brushed her full grey hair.But Wolfgang was the second son.
He said he was seldom allowed to appear before a judge after being arrested.
"I knew what freedom meant, the word in the dictionary, but it didn't catch my attention until he elaborated what that means," Kim says, recalling a time when he was seldom allowed outside for fear of being snatched up by Chinese authorities.
Even those who had, or pretended to have Party Business were seldom allowed inside.
Visitors to his Shelby County farm were seldom allowed to leave without an armload of prize-winning tomatoes.
Portraying Lily, a 40-year-old music teacher, Ms. Nixon seems to blossom luxuriously in ways she is seldom allowed on television.
Sex with Eddie may be "a miracle of nature," but in the arguments with Deanna he's seldom allowed to say anything she can't snortingly dismiss.
Before his road trip he works as a bartender in a New York comedy club, where he is seldom allowed to test his skills.
Meanwhile, Damon makes a good fist of his role as Pienaar, although his character is seldom allowed to be more than a plot device: the Afrikaner who sees the light.
