bewhiskered in a sentence
Examples
- Around them hung pictures of bewhiskered regimental war heroes in an order undisturbed for generations, and from a favored spot in the anteroom a portrait of the regiment's colonel in chief for the last 61 years, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, smiled benignly down upon her loyal subjects.
- Also, to my ears, " whiskered " sounds like it is an inherent characteristic, like of a walrus . " Bewhiskered " means it is a person with facial hair, probably shaped in some aesthetically pleasing way . talk ) 01 : 40, 14 December 2009 ( UTC)
- To that end, his advertisements featured interesting-looking people and symbols, like the Schweppes board member whose bewhiskered Englishness so entranced Ogilvy that he persuaded him to appear as Commander Whitehead _ the last name was real _ in a series of ads for Schweppes sodas that summed up the product as having " Schweppervescence ."
- In 2000, England spent twelve weeks in Bhuj, India, working on the Oscar-nominated Bollywood cricket epic Lagaan, in which he played a " heavily-bewhiskered bodyline bowler ", an experience which he described in a best-selling book, " Balham to Bollywood ", a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.
- Dwarfed by the enormity of what it means to illustrate, the diffuse " Amistad " divides its energies among many concerns : the pain and strangeness of the slaves'experience, the presidential election in which they become a factor, the stirrings of civil war, and the great many bewhiskered abolitionists and legal representatives who argue about their fate.
- Warner Brothers, which declined to discuss the new film's casting or make Nolan available to do so, need not feel uneasy about associating " Batman Begins " with more typically British products-- the romantic comedies of Hugh Grant or the endless string of period costume dramas with bewhiskered men in frock coats and maidservants, eyes cast downward, bobbing and curtsying obediently.
- But the picture that eventually became fixed in our minds _ a jolly bewhiskered, red-garbed fellow with more than an ample waistline _ was largely the gift of Clement C . Moore, whose poem " A Visit From St . Nicholas " not only defined the man himself but also set forever the belief that Santa flies through the air on a reindeer-drawn sleigh.
- But the picture that eventually became fixed in our minds _ a jolly bewhiskered, red-garbed fellow with more than an ample waistline _ was largely the gift of Clement C . Moore, whose 1822 poem " A Visit From St . Nicholas " not only defined the man himself but also set forever the belief that Santa flies through the air on a reindeer-drawn sleigh.