Sentences with phrase «sad decline»

I recently finished this book and must say I really enjoyed it form the descriptive and vulgar portrayal of victorian London streets and smells to the vivid and crude glimpse of seventeenth century «fallen women» (my favorite character was Caroline) to the gradual and sad decline of Agnes.
Every self - respecting football fan is well aware of Fernando Torres» sad decline over the last four years.
An exception is Kevin Kline, obvious and effective casting for swashbuckling Douglas Fairbanks, whose exuberance, dash and sad decline briefly enliven an otherwise dull picture of Hollywood.
Monday night's game, given the limpness of both sides in comparison to their 1999 versions, and given the slow, sad decline of the FA Cup, is not going to pulse with the same nervous energy from second to second as this game, and nor is it going to echo with the same import through the months and years to come.
The recession, during which shoe buyers became even more frugal, ended the sad decline.
I have grave misgivings about Mustafi and the sad decline in Koscielny worries me.
This year, with memories of the sad decline of Jackie Robinson last season, with realization that the average age of the six is rapidly approaching a tired, creaking 33, the feeling persists that the five - game gap by which the Dodgers lost last year was a signpost to oblivion, and that this year the Dodgers will come apart, perhaps not quite so thoroughly as the one - horse shay, but sufficiently so that they will run now with the pack rather than with the leaders.
The sad decline continued on Saturday when they were knocked out of the FA Cup by the one of the jokes of English Football.
If there is one thing politicians are meant to be good at, it's backstabbing and treachery: yet after this week's shambolic efforts to unseat Gordon Brown, it's obvious the vital art of plotting is in sad decline.
The sad decline of the Mana series has been difficult to watch, and it's equally unfortunate that its spiritual successor Ever Oasis suffers from similar problems — solid action RPG mechanics and moments of creative brilliance hampered by an experimental gameplay structure that drags everything down with it.
Her late moment as the girl who «cain't» say no encapsulates the perversity of Rodgers & Hammerstein, sure, and the sad decline of a woman who confessed at the end of her life that she never quite figured out Hollywood — though it sure looks like Hollywood had her figured.
The sad decline of Hughes & hughes as an independent chain has reached something of an odd end with the news that three of its four stores will become Eason fanchise stores: Eason has reached agreement with Hughes & Hughes...
From creole hedonisa to the austerity of the civil war, reconstruction, a sad decline to the rebirth in the modern world.
From the standpoint of the first, American realism can look like a sad decline.
Jim Dine's R.D. Kitaj appropriations suggest a sad decline for the artist.
Though newspapers are in sad decline (last year I chaired the search committee for the new Dean of Berkeley's School of Journalism, and though each candidate for the job spoke to us of the impending doom of the printed newspaper,, no one had a way to prevent it), the New York Times still holds special cachet.
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