real gone

Example Sentences

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As it turned out, she doesn’t seem to have directed again after 1920, instead becoming another of cinema’s mysteriously missing and forgotten women — its real gone girls.

From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2018

By the late 1920s, female directors had become the industry’s real gone girls and from then until the mid-1960s only two women are thought to have directed in Hollywood: Dorothy Arzner and Ida Lupino.

From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2014

Or a real gone out-to-lunch extension of the same.

From The Guardian • Jun. 26, 2012

Dean Moriarty. a real gone kid in whom Sal sees traces of a "W. C. Fields saintliness," is the only authentic proletarian in a basically timorous band of bourgeois rebels.

From Time Magazine Archive

"That little gal," said he solemnly, "is real gone."

From Time Magazine Archive