| 1 | Far along in life; old. | |
| 2 | His greatest contributions came when he was a "senior citizen." | |
| 3 | It's amazing that somebody can still contribute to society even in the autumn of his life. | |
| 4 | In his declining years, he was exiled to Bin Zhou by Emperor Song Taizong, and one year later, he was dead there. | |
| 5 | He made his best films in his seventies; it was for him a real Indian summer. |