edwardian age造句

• Some of the long slender dresses suggested the Edwardian age.
• The Titanic sank as the Edwardian age was drawing to a close.
• It is known for its extensive harbour views, marine villas and Edwardian age homes.
• It is a simplified English Renaissance Revival Style, common for commonwealth buildings of the Edwardian age.
• It can be read as a metaphor for the end of the Edwardian age of confidence and the beginning of the modern age of anxiety.
• In 1909, when the Ballets Russes burst upon the Parisian scene, socialites still dressed in the muted fawn and dove colors of the Edwardian age.
• Trevelyan was born in 1906 into a family of well-known Edwardian age Labor politicians and agnostics, and he shared their views in his youth.
• The families embody the contradictions of the Edwardian age : The Colemans are scientifically minded and progressive; the Waterhouses _ especially the overemotional, judgmental Lavinia _ sentimental and bound by tradition.
• "Titanic " looks as though it will lean heavily on the idea of the ship as maritime metaphor for the Edwardian age, a repository of romantic stories from stern to starboard and from steerage to the first-class staterooms.
• "' George Griffith "'( 1857 & ndash; 1906 ), full name "'George Chetwynd Griffith-Jones "', was a prolific British science fiction writer and noted explorer who wrote during the late Victorian and Edwardian age.
• The film focuses on Wilde's marriage, his fatherhood, his success as a playwright in the ever-changing morality of the Edwardian Age, and his eventual recognition that he was gay _ which tragically altered his life in an England where homosexuality was punishable by imprisonment and hard labor.
• A child of the Edwardian Age, she had tended wounded soldiers at Glamis during World War I . During World War II, she became a bulwark of support for her husband, who had been forced unprepared onto the throne when his brother King Edward VIII abdicated in 1936 to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson.
• In Howes's view, there was a touch of vulgarity in both the era and Elgar's music, but " a composer is entitled to be judged by posterity for his best work . . . . Elgar is historically important for giving to English music a sense of the orchestra, for expressing what it felt like to be alive in the Edwardian age, for conferring on the world at least four unqualified masterpieces, and for thereby restoring England to the comity of musical nations ."