Sentence examples for work has lost from inspiring English sources

Their work has lost none of its power or fury.

Life keeps letting Dobbs down: his adored wife (Harriet Andersson) has serial affairs, his work has lost its honor.

Dante, a figure in his own work, has lost his way in middle age and is alone and fear-ridden in the woods.

His Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith is out of work, has lost his girlfriend (Brittany Murphy) and lives with his alcoholic mother (Kim Basinger).

For some years, it's been clear that De Palma's work has lost the jolting intellectual energy and wit of his "Carrie" and "Dressed to Kill" days, and in "Femme Fatale" the Master is just diddling.

It is a tribute to him that even after a century in which every traditional parameter of music – tonality, rhythm, melody, sonority – has been subverted or destroyed, this work has lost none of its power.

Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, has warned there are "lots of abuses" of the minimum wage, adding: "Sections of the community who are desperate for work, having lost benefit entitlement, are particularly vulnerable".

As I drove onto Walls's 205-acre farm in Virginia and the Technicolor green grass and trees unfurled to reveal horses in their paddocks, it seemed clear that hard work had lost its power as a put-down.

That is tough, not only because the pay is low, but also because in the post-cold-war era, diplomacy and government work have lost much of their luster.

The reason was probably that as her profile had risen, her work had lost some of its individual character: just as US residence wore down her distinctive Devonian accent, so too had it eroded the very characteristics that made her work special, sculpting her Southern Soul style to fit the mainstream R&B market.

In the period from 1768 to 1774, his music took on a deeper hue; the intellectualization that had steadily increased throughout the 1760s at last found its natural outlet in the mid-1780s, when he seems to have regained the emotional strength that so much of his work had lost after the outburst of the early 1770s.