Sentence examples for was the erstwhile from inspiring English sources

And just when it seemed things couldn't get any stranger, there was the erstwhile Brownite enforcer, Charlie Whelan, dressed as a Scottish laird in tweeds.

This was the erstwhile girlfriend of a close friend, described in the book as follows: "Then he fell for a woman who was so gorgeous that it felt good just to be in her presence.

Her co-stars are the erstwhile Tony nominees Lia Williams ("Skylight") and Rufus Sewell ("Rock 'n' Roll"), two thoroughbred colleagues by anyone's reckoning.

One is the erstwhile holy grail of TV commissioning editors the world over – the watercooler moment.In the past, TV success was measured by two things: ratings and the extent to which a show became a talking point.

Although Detroit and Reggie Bush, who is showing himself to be the erstwhile Heisman Trophy winner whom New Orleans took with the second pick in the 2006 draft, might be made for television next season, the team still doesn't appear made for the playoffs.

Again, that might sound laudable, but the result has been a development framework that bypasses the preferences of the impoverished individuals who are the erstwhile beneficiaries, and favors instead the trade-offs and priorities that best satisfy U.N. officials and client governments.

Pimm's Cups materialized, the ship's public announcement speakers broadcast our guide Gillian's soft-voiced commentary: The little island we were passing "at present" had been the erstwhile home "of an English recluse who would come and spend his summers and he would eat rabbits".

If ever there were a kindly overlord, it was the United States' erstwhile mother country, which inculcated representative government, civil rights and common law.

The place was the home of the erstwhile Rat Packer Peter Lawford, an opulent apartment occupying the second floor of a house just south of Sunset Boulevard: what passed for reduced circumstances in Tinseltown.

Please don't make the mistake of assuming that's what the erstwhile That's Life! presenter has in common with the town.

They rejected stereotypical portrayals that showed vestiges of the American vaudeville "stage Jew" with Old Country accents, flailing hands or singsong intonations; they quickly eliminated anyone who seemed to have arrived at the audition hall directly from Second Avenue, which was largely the erstwhile home of the Yiddish theater district, or from the borscht belt.