How To Use Dotage In A Sentence
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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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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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That this is not so is very apparent from any number of reports which can not be dismissed as anecdotage.
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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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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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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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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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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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Coarse and mischievous - but never too much - his is the good-natured rebellion we all aspire to in our 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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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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It is as though they could not wait to sink into a dotage spent in permanent contemplation of their childhood.
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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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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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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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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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He gets a bit over-protective, like I'm in my dotage or something.
THE ONLY GAME
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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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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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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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`Even in his dotage, our beloved Professor Stevie still sits on the tenure committee.
DOUBTING THOMAS
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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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In their dotage they meet in the General's isolated castle in the shadow of the Carpathian Mountains.
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He longs for grandchildren to dandle on his knee through his dotage.
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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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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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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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Makes you wonder whether, in their dotage, a lot of locals regret departing their motherland long ago for this place.
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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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I've groaned through leaders' speeches tight with tearjerking vacuities, faux-human anecdotage and coy phrasemaking.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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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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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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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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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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The question raised by this display, and by Hodgson's alienated anecdotage on stage, is: can he be for real?
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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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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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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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But, in his dotage, he's started to regard the younger generation with affection.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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He scatters anecdotage as he guides you through his ‘houses’.
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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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Now, in his dotage, aged 40, he has gone to that convivial players' retirement home - the BBC.
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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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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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Sarah moved back in with her father so that she could look after him in his dotage.
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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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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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More than just anecdotage, his meandering memoir evokes an innocent time in New Zealand.
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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 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 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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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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When a man falls into his anecdotage it is a sign for him to retire from the globle.
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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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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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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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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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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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I am so mellow now in my dotage that no-one bothers to write in to excoriate me any more.
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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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It is as though they could not wait to sink into a dotage spent in permanent contemplation of their childhood.
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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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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.
