How To Use Dotage In A Sentence
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Happy to slip into their anecdotage, they affectionately remember the stresses and strains of life on the factory floor, touring, recording and funding a funeral parlour that become their safe haven when it all became too much to bear.
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So good luck with that, Rupert. have a delightful, Howard-Hughesian dotage, acting out a crazed, Moby-Dick dumbshow against the Internet, hoping that the world's politics and economies will reform themselves to suit your fevered imaginings.
Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals - Boing Boing
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Himself a rational pleasurist, as being much too wise to be asham'd of the pleasures of humanity, loved me indeed, but loved me with dignity; in a mean equally remov'd from the sourness, of forwardness, by which age is unpleasingly characteriz'd, and from that childish silly dotage that so often disgraces it, and which he himself used to turn into ridicule, and compare to an old goat affecting the frisk of a young kid.
Fanny Hill, Part X (second letter)
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Now, in his dotage, aged 40, he has gone to that convivial players' retirement home - the BBC.
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Why waste money best spent in your prime, when you might not even live to see your dotage ?
THE MANANA MAN
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He scatters anecdotage as he guides you through his ‘houses’.
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Disease and arson brought the village tree down, but my parents seem rather more robust and I imagine them in their dotage as local figures of interest, pointed out by younger folk as the genuine article.
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Surely so important a figure in cinema and so charismatic a star deserves something better than anecdotage, gossip and platitudes for the story of his life, career and times.
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Thus the biggest surprise of "Picasso: Mosqueteros" is its evidence of a coloristic metamorphosis that overtook the monochromatically inclined master in his supposed dotage.
The Late Show
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Himself a rational pleasurist, as being much too wise to be shamed of the pleasures of humanity, loved me indeed, but loved me with dignity; in a mean equally removed from the sourness, of forwardness, by which age is unpleasingly characterised, and from that childish silly dotage that so often disgraces it, and which he himself used to turn into ridicule, and compare to an old goat affecting the frisk of a young kid.
Memoirs of Fanny Hill.
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Sarah moved back in with her father so that she could look after him in his dotage.
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News From No Man's Land mixes the anecdotage of the earlier books with a much more explicit and opinionated analysis of the state of television news.
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Reid is 32, and not exactly in his dotage, though he does laugh when describing Boroughmuir as ‘a young - well, fairly-young - side.’
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The common sort define it to be a kind of dotage without a fever, having for his ordinary companions, fear and sadness, without any apparent occasion.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Himself a rational pleasurist; as being much too wise to be ashamed of the pleasures of humanity, loved me indeed, but loved me with dignity; in a mean equally removed from the sourness, of forwardness, by which age is unpleasingly characterized, and from that childish silly dotage that so often disgraces it, and which he himself used to turn into ridicule, and compare to an old goat affecting the frisk of a young kid.
Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749)
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Knowing the facts's very important; knowing the people helps (there's a fair bit of anecdotage and I-was-there-ism in Hitchens's journalism).
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This just goes to prove that if you hang around long enough, and keep taking the pills, your short-trousered fans will eventually grow up to be TV executives who will hire you in your dotage.
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But, in his dotage, he's started to regard the younger generation with affection.
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And fo what we call dotage, feldom breeds In bodies, but where nature fows the feeds.
The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical
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Aurora is nearly a woman and you must be nearing your dotage to even imagine such a thing!
PAINT THE WIND
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I think it's a good thing for Britain, a good thing for you and, more importantly, a good thing for me, because it will have this outcome: a better health service to treat me in my dotage, and better schools to which I can send my children.
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For a great number of those who have followed Celtic for the past four decades believe that the goalkeeping position has not been satisfactorily filled since Simpson, in his dotage, was acquired as a stop-gap in the late 1960s.
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It is as though they could not wait to sink into a dotage spent in permanent contemplation of their childhood.
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I do know, however, my offspring and others consider me to be in my dotage but in my many years until now, a bankers draft was considered as good as solid gold.
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I am so mellow now in my dotage that no-one bothers to write in to excoriate me any more.
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Himself a rational pleasurist, as being much too wise to be asham’d of the pleasures of humanity, loved me indeed, but loved me with dignity; in a mean equally remov’d from the sourness, of forwardness, by which age is unpleasingly characteriz’d, and from that childish silly dotage that so often disgraces it, and which he himself used to turn into ridicule, and compare to an old goat affecting the frisk of a young kid.
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
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The prudence of these worthy friends they term suspicion, and their experience dotage.
Essays on Various Subjects Principally Designed for Young Ladies
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He "doesn't give a bollocks" about hitting 60 his age at the time of recording the album, 58 ½, features prominently on the album cover artwork and feels more content in what he calls his "dotage" than in pretty much any period of his life.
Evening Standard - Home
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If you forget all the delightful things she comes out with – and sadly Mums do – all you have to do, when you are in your dotage, is browse through your blog.
Special k
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Yet should Faulkner never achieve his aim of breaking into the big time, just being a part of the increasingly high-tech World Rally Championship circus will be enough to sustain him in his dotage.
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When a man falls into his anecdotage it is a sign for him to retire from the globle.
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The lively scientific spat between Professors Higgs and Hawking has trailed a predictable plethora of anecdotage in its wake, much of it designed to illustrate Hawking's ‘mischievous sense of humour’.
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In another, equally droll work, the drama of unrequited love has taken its participants into their dotage as a wheezy, white-haired poet still woos his Muse six decades past her prime.
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More anecdotage - I know that at least one domestic violence charity finds it very hard to get major corporate charitable sponsorship because it's perceived as ‘breaking up homes’.
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In his anecdotage, with so many of his old friends dead, he's discovered a new way of getting to sleep.
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More than just anecdotage, his meandering memoir evokes an innocent time in New Zealand.
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Confronted with it, the astute spectator immediately wonders why -- if the Great White Way newcomer is meant to be impersonating an aging tiger -- he looks so much like an old lion, so like George Bernard Shaw's thorn-freed Androcles companion in his dotage.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Robin Williams Broadway-Bows in Rajiv Joseph's Toothless Play
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Self-interest is the key here - will there be enough people working to sustain me in my dotage?
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As petulance and lust belong to the young more than to the old, yet not to all young men, but to those who are not virtuous; so that senile folly, which is commonly called dotage, belongs to weak old men, and not to all.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome
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The fruity little tale he told about the double entendre he had committed regarding the French prime minister said it all: this was an elder statesman in his anecdotage.
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When well-loved artists and entertainers die there are formal tributes, interviews with friends, a gush of doting anecdotage, but that's as far as it goes.
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He gets a bit over-protective, like I'm in my dotage or something.
THE ONLY GAME
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George the Third is in his mad dotage, Napoleon is ploughing through Europe and Lord Byron is whoring his way to Greece.
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There is the tendency, to be found in all politicians in their anecdotage, to make copious reference to her own previous speeches of five, 10 and 20 years ago.
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Towards the end he fell into a kind of dotage; his family must entertain him with games of tin soldiers, which he took
Records of a Family of Engineers
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In my nonage I used to carry grudges, when I matured I got even, now in my dotage I get ahead.
Think Progress » McCain Attacks Blogosphere
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It is as though they could not wait to sink into a dotage spent in permanent contemplation of their childhood.
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As Disraeli said: ‘When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.’
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Because of wrecked pensions and the fact that people are dedicating all their financial resources into buying their home actually it WILL matter what its worth when you are forced in dotage to draw on it to put food on the table.
Leaseholders Stabbed in The Back
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Coarse and mischievous - but never too much - his is the good-natured rebellion we all aspire to in our dotage.
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He looked forward to a gentle decline into an eccentric and amiable dotage, his twilit years untroubled by chore or challenge.
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What exactly am I paying taxes and National Insurance AND a private pension for if I then have to pay extra tax to be cared for in my dotage, which is also on top of all the extra "stealth" taxes I am paying now (petrol, VAT taxes on savigs etc) plus the extra ones dreamed up to plug the hole in the national budget.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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The problem with that, unfortunately, is that in my dotage I have rapidly fading memories, and rapidly fading images in my brain of who I did, and how what and when I did what I did, never mind why.
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This is a sentence that, in my dotage, is far less likely to pass my lips and fingertips than it once was, back when I was positively dripping with vim and vigour.
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I've groaned through leaders' speeches tight with tearjerking vacuities, faux-human anecdotage and coy phrasemaking.
Times, Sunday Times
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That this is not so is very apparent from any number of reports which can not be dismissed as anecdotage.
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Apart from the 1927 portraits of Atget in his dotage and a single snapshot of him in middle age, we have no access to Atget's face, not in his prime.
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Elsewhere, and just hitting the screens, he shirks the dotage and decrepitude forcing him into the quiet life for a final fling at what he does best.
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Any mother in England would have shrunk from the thought that her best-beloved son – especially a young man of Guy's temperament, and under Guy's present circumstances – was thrown into the society which now surrounded the debauched dotage of the too-notorious Earl of Luxmore.
John Halifax, Gentleman
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The question raised by this display, and by Hodgson's alienated anecdotage on stage, is: can he be for real?
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a stranger, who I could urge no claim of consanguinity upon him, absolutely astonished them; and their resentment at his caprice -- or rather what they termed his dotage -- was not only deep, but loud.
The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
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In the choices a lifetime offers he had ultimately left himself nowhere to turn except to the consolations of talk - anecdotage at its richest, in full flood.
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However, the bosses will prosper with fat cash pay-offs and sweet share deals that will see them comfortably well-off well into dotage.
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He was alarmed that among non-fiction publications based on PhD theses, anything that seeks to move beyond anecdotage to argument and analysis becomes fair game for reviewers.
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He is as much in his anecdotage as anyone I have interviewed, and they are not exactly new stories.
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I've groaned through leaders' speeches tight with tearjerking vacuities, faux-human anecdotage and coy phrasemaking.
Times, Sunday Times
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The medal that came along with it meanwhile will, Larsson said, be brought out and looked at when he is in his dotage to remind him of his achievements, the Swede baulking at the suggestion he might be tempted to gift it to a close one.
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Makes you wonder whether, in their dotage, a lot of locals regret departing their motherland long ago for this place.
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There are a few Ministers I don't think I've even heard speak in the course of the year, and the grapevine has it that a couple of them are destined for cushy posts in steamy climes to mellow out in their dotage.
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Two days he continued quiet in the old nook by the hearth, apparently in a kind of dotage doze; but on the third, he began to poke about, hobbled into the dairy, peered into the churn, touched the skimmer.
The Lord of the Sea
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My generation and those before it are counting on there being an unbreakable covenant from the future wealth producers to keep us at a certain standard in our dotage.
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He longs for grandchildren to dandle on his knee through his dotage.
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In their dotage they meet in the General's isolated castle in the shadow of the Carpathian Mountains.
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The pot of savings to pay today's 20 and 30-year-olds in their dotage is short by something in the order of £57 bn.
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`Even in his dotage, our beloved Professor Stevie still sits on the tenure committee.
DOUBTING THOMAS
