"We have practically lost all our artistic patrimony," said mayor Alberto Silvestri.
As the great French feudatories' power grew at the expense of the king's, the old marquisats were practically lost in the great duchies or countships.
"After I practically lost the ring, it was a race against the clock to get it on Jen's finger," he recalled.
"The soil in the area covered by this volume of ash deposits will be practically lost," said Wilfredo Vera, engineer from the University of Chile.
Like most pieds noirs, he never returned, after independence, to the country of his childhood, so that Algeria — and indeed a whole world of Francophone North African experience — could be experienced only in the mind, always practically lost.
Ukraine's acting president has admitted his government has practically lost control of the east of the country, with his security forces "helpless" to stop a rolling takeover by pro-Russia gunmen.
The term "cult movie" has practically lost all currency these days, as the phrase seems to be applied randomly to mainstream behemoths like The Matrix as to the Pink Flamingos of this world.
One sees a similar effect at the Cornish garden of Tregrehan (the subject of a laudatory article by Roy Lancaster in the April issue of Gardens Illustrated), where a yew walk, planted in 1845, has practically lost its foliage but remains a living, venerable object - a sort of ancient monument in the green.
Self-transcendence, which once was a crucial element in the ideal of authenticity, is practically lost from the contemporary version, giving rise to cultures of self-absorption, which ultimately deteriorate into the malaise of absurdity.
… Soon after, I was sacked from all my TV programs and practically lost my entertainment career in Germany".
