ruritanian in a sentence
Examples
- Aside from the change in literary taste, the royalist elements of Ruritanian romances became less plausible as many European monarchies receded even from memory, and their restorations grew less likely.
- Author J . G . Ballard, in refusing a CBE, described the British Honours System as a " Ruritanian charade that helps to prop up our top-heavy monarchy ".
- Cule's novelette " The Prince of Zell " is a curiosity a Ruritanian romance with a wildly improbable plot and a denouement that strains credulity to the limit.
- In a hypothetical example, if an editor is actively editing the page on the Ruritanian Liberation Front and has on their user page, we have a right to question their objectivity.
- I think the difference is that very few of us will have a position on Ruritanian liberation, so someone who proclaims it loudly is describing themselves as having quite an unusual position.
- In one memorable sequence, Flynt appears against a night sky filled with fireworks, flanked by drummer girls and a Statue of Liberty, like some Ruritanian vision of a Yankee Doodle dandy.
- Shaw's first box-office success was " Arms and the Man " ( 1894 ), a mock-Ruritanian comedy satirising conventions of love, military honour and class.
- Raker, Watcham, and Inanna head into the River Fleet's underground channel as the Ruritanian aeroplanes begin a heavy fire-bombing of London in preparation for their final assault on Britain.
- ""'The Midnight Wedding " "'is a 1912 Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford based on a popular Ruritanian stage play in which Longford had appeared.
- Ruritania is featured in the animated series " Count Duckula ", in which it is depicted as a popular ski resort, with competitions in winter sports held in the Ruritanian town of Danglegoggle.