once-beautiful

"Many times we would enter massive art deco buildings, with once-beautiful chandeliers and extraordinary frescoes, and everything was crumbling and covered in dust."

Ronda Carman: Out With the Old? Ronda Carman 2011

"Many times we would enter massive art deco buildings, with once-beautiful chandeliers and extraordinary frescoes, and everything was crumbling and covered in dust."

Ronda Carman: Out With the Old? Ronda Carman 2011

Using the once-beautiful city of Beirut—at this point torn apart by a war—as a metaphor, it chronicles the contrast between our “great life” without and the breakup within.

Late, Late at Night Rick Springfield 2010

So much of their shared sorrow revolved around that once-beautiful city on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean.

American Assassin Vince Flynn 2010

The once-beautiful caramel complexion was now ashen; it gave her a ghost-like appearance.

Hidden Secrets, Hidden Lives J. Leon Pridgen II 2010

Using the once-beautiful city of Beirut—at this point torn apart by a war—as a metaphor, it chronicles the contrast between our “great life” without and the breakup within.

Late, Late at Night Rick Springfield 2010

Instead, reporters now become felons for showing the American public the utter mess the Coast Guard, federal officials and BP have created in our once-beautiful waterways.

Georgianne Nienaber: Facing the Future as a Media Felon on the Gulf Coast 2010

Three of them had died in the civil war that had destroyed this once-beautiful city.

American Assassin Vince Flynn 2010

First, the police commissioner met with Mr. Preval not in the once-beautiful Presidential Palace in Port au Prince but in a makeshift office erected on top of a parking garage on grounds of the quake-damaged building.

NYPD Set to Aid Haitian Cops 2010

The once-beautiful targa frame was dismantled, cut up, and sent off to be used as a template for the new frame.

True Spirit Jessica Watson 2010