Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.
A lot of people call Dizzy old fashioned but so is the bible.
My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a dwelling, and on the empty space within, its use depends. Thus, while the existence of things may be good, it is the non-existence in them that makes them serviceable.
Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just
Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.
It is not the organs-that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts-that have given rise to its habits and particular structures. It is the habits and manner of life and the conditions in which its ancestors lived that have in the course of time fashioned its bodily form, its organs and qualities.
I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match.
And if you call one a real estate agent and he won't sell you anything. He is a REALATOR. It's the same as what the old fashioned real estate agent used to be only the commission is different.
So far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on which we can survive. Our bodies and our minds are fashioned by it. Our hearts resonate with it. There will be little joy for the human spirit if we destroy the natural fabric of Earth with nothing left to do but go shopping. When we imagine the world a century from now, when we look our great grandchildren in the eye and see them smiling back at us because they know we cared for them, we smile too!
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
A character is a completely fashioned will.
The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing. . . love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.
I'm pretty goofy and I make a lot of dumb jokes - life is too short to be serious, so I guess that's how I flirt. To be honest, I think I'm too shy and reserved to be a proper old fashioned flirt.
Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.
Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love
A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.
A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.
