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Example sentences for: nightingale

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But in Nightingale's time, the British military at least had the excuse that the age of modern medicine, with its emphasis on sterility and proper ventilation of hospital rooms, was only just dawning.
British playwright David Hare, criticized in the past for his "preachy politics," is said to have finally found "his way beyond polemic" (John Lahr, The New Yorker ). Hare's new play about a self-centered film critic, his wife, and his mother-in-law is hailed as a "coup de théâtre " (Matt Wolf, Variety ), both for its social critique (of the amorality of the news media) and for its sensitivity "about such personal matters as loss, grief and stoical survival" (Benedict Nightingale, the London Times ). Hare's enthusiasts declare it time for canonization.
McCain's story has been told well before, namely by Robert Timberg in The Nightingale's Song , a 1995 book about five Naval Academy graduates.
On their front pages, the Daily Telegraph of London and La Repubblica of Rome reported respectively that the nightingale in Britain and the swallow in Italy are heading toward extinction.
The nightingale does not have a directly imitative name, although the final- gale is related to yell , which is undoubtedly echoic.