Sentences with phrase «as the decade wore»

And as the decade wore on, things just got better.

As the decade wore on, the company's fortunes took a downturn as consumers became increasingly drawn to games featuring colorful visuals and action.

As the decade wore on, it excluded everything else, including color.

During that decade, artists engaged the language of advertising and media, feminist and identity politics, and as the decade wore on, an increasingly urgent response to the AIDS crisis, to produce work that commented on the power and the fragility of the human body.

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Indeed, we can no longer dismiss as absurd the possibility of her future political dissolution, even though the most immediate crises of the next several decades will likely wear a predominately economic aspect.

But the newly baptized ex-Soviets of the last two decades have a rigid and impoverished understanding of «tradition,» which they understand as a set of rules and regulations: when to pray and what set of prayers to read, what not to eat and what else not to do during Lent, what to wear to church, and so on.

Those who cover war — as he did for two decades in Central America, the Middle East and Bosnia — become as addicted to its ephemeral rewards as do those wearing the uniform in the trenches.

In over a decade at afc he's not been consistent, neither has he proven to be anything near being worthy to be be counted in the same breath as Thierry, Anelka, Wright, Kanu, Adebeyor, RvP — I'm sorry but he has a minus fear factor (remember we rolled him out as captain and got rolled over) and for me he devalues the meaning of wearing the no14 shirt — sell, sell, sell before the potential buyer returns to their senses.

In fact, I would go as far as to say that «Bosscielny» is the best defender in England at the moment and the best to wear an Arsenal shirt in the past decade.

Local authorities are struggling to balance their budgets as this decade of masochistic fiscal anorexia wears on.

He wore a navy suit that barely contained his impressive bulk, still in good shape a decade after his time as a defensive end ended with two torn ACLs.

This is the kind of product that stays in your family for decades, only giving more pleasure as the fabric gets a little worn.

But as time wears on, especially over the past few decades, you see more outward leaps, when climate warming is speeding up.

Even slim and fit people who run for decades, start experiencing knee problems, as the fact is — running wears knee joints.

In these few decades, it has earned too much popularity not only nationally but also internationally.It always presents it's seasonal as well as event wear collection for women which include winter, summer, spring, Eid collections, party wear, casual wear, Bridal dresses collections.

And, on the note of expense, even if you wear it only a couple of times a year, a well - made dinner suit is timeless and could last you a decade or more, so think of it as an investment.

Therefore, sometimes I wonder and question what we all call «timeless» clothing and basics, and I ask myself whether or not people thought mom jeans were atemporal during the 90's, since I remember clearly that if anyone dared to wear them last decade, everyone would have watched you as if you were an alien.

Should I even add that it all seemed to be as planned, considering that I was wearing this quite 70s inspired look (I'm stuck at this decade) in head to toe neutrals?!

That's always a big perk when shopping for huge trend items while thrifting, you'll probably find the trend from when it was popular a decade or two ago, meaning you won't be wearing the same skirt as anyone else.

The fact that she not only still has, but can also still wear, the gorgeous gown more than five decades later has Twitter seriously impressed (as if Moreno wasn't already impressive enough).

Even though we already had seen a classic set for office wear as early as in the 1930s, and definitely in the 1980s, the office set of blazer and pencil skirt as we know it today, emerged from this decade.

Inspired by iconic decades of style, the designs are flawlessly combined with Charlie's own contemporary aesthetic (as seen in her ready - to - wear line).

My mom has a Barbour waxed cotton coat she's worn for decades, and I love that mine is just as lovingly crafted and high quality as hers is!

I know that I won't find the exact same coat I've worn for nearly a decade again, but - as it was, unquestionably, the best and most beautiful winter coat I've ever owned - I'd like to unearth something similar.

Even if people don't «get» the fashion, the 1970s is the decade that brought us Women's Lib, the pill and sexual equality, encouraged us to burn our bras and told us that we were as good as any man so us girls should embrace it even if we don't wear the clothes.

With short dresses going back as far as the 1920s and a major staple of the «60s, an increasing number of bridal designers drawing upon past decades for inspiration, and the rise of the nontraditional bride, more women are opting to wear short wedding dresses.

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Considering the sheer prevalence of styles available to us right now, it's no wonder that — throughout the last decade or so jeans have emerged as wear - anywhere essentials, as opposed to the basic, casual, anti-establishment staples they once were.

They're often formulaic and follow a well - worn path originally etched out by classic capers such as John Huston's THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950), Jules Dassin's RIFIFI (1955), Alexander Mackendrick's THE LADYKILLERS (1955), Jean - Pierre Melville's BOB LE FLAMBEUR (1955) and Stanley Kubrick's THE KILLING (1956) but the best heist films take unexpected turns and leave their own special mark on a genre that seems to find new ways to define itself every decade.

Intentional or not, Wiseau is walking, talking freedom in leather vests and L'Oreal # 1BB Velvet Black hair dye, the most honest assessment of the American Dream we've seen in decades: someone with enough fuck - you money to be able to wear as many belts as he goddamn wants.

In the 1950s, a decade or so before people would commute between Europe and the United States by air, folks who wanted a new life away from the sameness of the old — where, as Eilis Lacy (Saoirse Ronan) decides the young men all wore grease in their hair and blazers on their bodies — would take a ship to New York where many would pass through Ellis Island.

De Niro is really the only one in the cast — which also includes D.B. Sweeney as the hijacked bus» driver, Morris Chestnut as the Pope's enforcer, and Kate Bosworth as the Pope's overalls - wearing estranged daughter in one disjointed scene — still getting some choice offers sent his way and he hasn't displayed a good sense of selectivity in well over a decade.

The overcast skies and ominous clouds evoke not so much some picturesque, romantic transcendence as the polluted air of wrongdoing that looms over a people who have had to go about their daily lives through decades of political upheaval, moral corruption, and economic stagnation, crushed beneath a burden of guilt, humiliation and worn out pride.

And it's above all just a whole lot of fun watching this odd couple of the decade, tiny Agnes Varda with her two - tone hair and hip young JR with his penchant for wearing dark glasses 24/7, as they tool around rural France in his photo booth van, connecting with locals and leaving them with fabulous art installations.

There will be many more in this book, which will chart the historic, highlight - studded course of the Boomers - from the days when they wore diapers to the heady days, decades later, when, as the dominant generation of the planet's dominant nation, they are starting to wear diapers again.

But after two decades of wear and tear, everyone agreed that this futuristic cultural pantheon, which houses France's top collection of modern art as well as research facilities, had become a decrepit hulk.

Yes, that Sonic the Hedgehog, the blue, bipedal creature wearing red sneakers that has served as game company Sega's mascot for decades.

The merriment I feel when playing as Pikachu and brawling with decades of Nintendo history with friends hasn't worn off after all these years, and despite the fact that I don't care for much that Nintendo does these days, watching their giant roster of characters clash still fills me with nostalgic glee that only Smash Bros. can.

When Hugo Ball, wearing a Cubist costume designed by Marcel Janco, recited his «sound poems» at the Cabaret Voltaire, he gave birth not only to Dada but to decades» worth of superficially nonsensical acts by artists, from the Happenings of the late 1950s to Gilbert & George's performances as singing sculptures.

For a 1994 self - portrait, she wore a leather hood and had the word pervert cut into her bare chest; a decade later she posed topless as her infant son suckled her nipple.

In the last decade Augaitis has organized solo exhibitions of artists such as Rebecca Belmore, Stan Douglas, Brian Jungen, Song Dong, Ian Wallace, Gillian Wearing, Paul Wong, and Yang Fudong, and thematic exhibitions that have featured socially based works.

Debarking the branches, gluing them into rectangular formations, and painting them with various colors, Arnoldi coasted for over a decade, but, as so often happens with art - world innovations successful enough to become trademarks, Arnoldi wore the gesture out.

1) I think we have been too readily explaining the slow changes over past decade as a result of variability — that explanation is wearing thin.

Only a couple of days ago the CBC's Ontario Today did a segment entitled «so you think you are covered» and their lines instantly lit up with (former and current) accident victims calling in to complain about the years and years of denial and delay they endured — sometimes over a decade — as there cases dragged on and they were worn down by the «inherently expensive» vagary of medico - legal expert assessment treadmill which drive personal injury litigation.

As such, you wouldn't want to wear her outfit from decades ago into an interview.

A good - quality, solid - wood floor can last for decades as long as it is looked after properly, and wear and tear over time will only add to its charm.