Paradise Regained
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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By the end of ten weeks, he had won imaginary tickets to all the London theaters, boxes of linen handkerchiefs, silk umbrellas, a mirror, and a coveted collector’s copy of Paradise Regained from Hurley, while Hurley had won from Shackleton a shaving mirror, several top hats, enough walking sticks to equip a regiment, several sets of cuff links, and a library of books, as well as dinner at Claridge’s Hotel in London and a box at the opera.
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Yes, it’s unreasonable, but I want to extend the pristine magic of our homecoming, this weekly installment of paradise regained.
From New York Times
He pointed out a link between the Tissot drawings and his own “Paradise Regained,” from 1968: a suite of six images that begins with a well-dressed young couple sitting and facing the camera in an empty apartment.
From New York Times
The spiritual dimension of “Paradise Regained” is balanced by the artist’s tongue-in-cheek view of urban life, where men and women only return to a natural state indoors, where everything is unnatural.
From New York Times
He shot casually composed candid stills, in saturated color, of older South Beach residents, many of them Holocaust survivors, enjoying a kind of paradise regained, replete with palm trees and balmy weather.
From New York Times
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