Sentences with phrase «dingy past»

Your stopped clock statement is more applicable to the olden records that drag believers into the dark and dingy past..

Not exact matches

He is a historian of compelling skill, whether presenting the panoply of dingy heroes which punctuate liberty's past or summarising the philosophical approaches of each era.

It may be stating the obvious, but cars have come a long way in the past two decades — perhaps none more so than in the light - car segment, where vast advances have been made by most models since evil - handling, poorly equipped and downright dingy econoboxes like the Hyundai Excel and Ford Festiva littered our roads.

The subway car, dingy and dimly lit, with only a few other passengers, tired and bedraggled as he was, had an ominous feel, reminding him he was in the city late at night and danger wasn't far away — not as much danger as in years past, but reason to keep alert.

This time we were making a U turn in the dingy before we even got past Baby Kandui.

Over the past decade, the game stepped out from dingy casinos and relati...

Turning away from the atrium wall, an intriguing neon arrow beckons visitors down concrete steps, past an old glass window with broken and stained panes and into the dark and dingy «Chute» space.

On the dingy bathroom wall is a gift he received from another central figure, Lawrence Weiner: a text piece that says in red, «the trace of an action past, i.e. a wet place.»

When Yanic first clapped eyes on this Victorian gem in a west - end Toronto neighbourhood over a year ago, he saw past the dingy interior to the charming home it could become.