Sentences with phrase «much earlier era»

(Overhunting took its toll on land in a much earlier era.)

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John does, after all, preaching that the old way is dead, and the promised Messiah is coming who will usher in a new era of peace for the entire world, and that those who want to participate in this new era must show it by going through the waters of baptism, much as the followers of Ea would have done 3000 years earlier.

Along with this, the philosophical notions about soul, about immortality, about a realm above and beyond the hurly - burly of this world, present in the tradition of Greek philosophy and variations on that philosophy in the early Christian era, had become so much part of the atmosphere of thought that inevitably these two affected Christian thinkers.

Amid all the enthusiasm for sources of biblical wisdom from the early Church, the Middle Ages, and the Reformation era, it must be admitted that the knowledge base for the study of the Bible is quantitatively much greater today.

Part of the reason we're in a new era is that athletes today can begin organized sports participation much earlier than in the past.

For decades, scientists have turned to DNA to learn about our past, but their studies have been limited to eras much earlier than recorded history.

When the researchers looked at how much cholesterol, blood pressure and smoking influenced coronary heart disease, they found these risk factors mattered just as much in the later years as much as they had in the earlier era.

Pretty much every woman I know who hasn't been with the same guy for 11 years cringes a little when thinking about their late teens / early twenties era of Viriato is a red piller from Portugal, a country of tiny but mighty people.

The important generation of French directors that followed, including Philippe Garrel, Maurice Pialat, Jacques Doillon, Catherine Breillat, Olivier Assayas, and Desplechin (born in 1960, the same year the New Wave crested internationally), may be heavily identified with the formal freedom and nonstudio look of that earlier era, but they've also been much more inclined to pursue parent - child connections, perhaps because they are offspring, so to speak, of the groundbreaking New Wave.

Itself owing much to such lone - man - of - action hallmarks as «Die Hard» and «Speed,» this welcome throwback to an earlier, more generously entertaining era of summer blockbusters delivers a wide array of close - quarters combat and large - scale destruction.

Those who have watched movies from all eras are sure to notice that the earliest ones did not concern themselves much with realism.

The movie is set to be directed by Todd Phillips (The Hangover), with Martin Scorsese producing, and is said to be «a gritty and grounded hard - boiled crime film set in early -»80s Gotham City that isn't meant to feel like a DC movie as much as one of Scorsese's films from that era, like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull or The King Of Comedy.»

Yet the most striking aspect of Overlord is the survival of that much earlier wartime era's quiet exaltation.

Already on the docket, announced as early, anticipatory treats, we have Amma Asante's apartheid - era romance, A United Kingdom, kicking off the whole shebang, and then we have Ben Wheatley's much - anticipated period shoot -»em - up Free Fire screening to mark the festival's close.

The intention is to make a gritty and grounded hard - boiled crime film set in early -»80s Gotham City that isn't meant to feel like a DC movie as much as one of Scorsese's films from that era, like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull or The King Of Comedy.

That may be as much of a product of its timing and impact; there's no doubt those four earlier films reached and touched more people than any others of this era.

As a rare prestige picture centered around a homosexual relationship set during a much less tolerant era, «Carol» stands to generate perhaps an even warmer audience embrace than «Brokeback Mountain» did 10 years earlier, hopefully absent much of the snickering embarrassment that soured the otherwise widespread acclaim for Ang Lee's classic.

They spent much of their working lives in the service of Herman Andreae, a merchant banker and keen sailor who owned a succession of exotic motor cars / The cars of Amédée Bollée fils — Michael Worthington - Williams investigates the pioneering steam and petrol - powered vehicles made in Le Mans by the scion of a bell - founding dynasty / In Memoriam: Pat Fairfield — Peter McFadyen tells the story of this successful ERA driver and the tribute to him produced after his early death by his racing rival and close friend Prince Bira

With the inclusion of the small - block Chevy V8 in the 1955 Corvette, a new era was born as Zora and his engineers set upon an upward path of wringing as much performance out of those early 283s, 327s and 350 cubic inch V8 engines and then making those performance parts available to the everyman.

The gem of the season, though, takes us back to an earlier era and a much rowdier and more dysfunctional bunch.

Later on, in college, I lived next to Shannon Wheeler and would help him out with his early «Too Much Coffee Man» era stuff.

It is that in the second Jobs era, products don't ship too much too early.

Careful examination of the modern era, starting from 1950, shows that dividends are much more dependable today than they were earlier.

While having the look of a child in his current appearance (as like most of the members of his species do), it can be arguable that his earlier appearances (especially in his game appearances during the Nintendo 64 era) portray him as looking much more childish in design with his very large head and miniature body (more so than his current appearance).

While much of the recent momentum behind retro gaming has focused on earlier platforms, The PlayStation Anthology proudly sticks a flag in the ground for the iconic platform of the modern console era: The PlayStation 1.

Duskers, launching today on Steam Early Access, is a deep dive into the feeling of complete dependence on technology in a (somewhat) fictional era in which tech can limit you almost as much as it empowers.

It isn't exactly an ugly game, but character models seem much more like what you might expect in the early PS3 era.

Advances in technology allowed Victorian buildings to be much taller than they were in the medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern eras.

And, speaking to another development the Whitney caught much earlier, excepting a couple of videos, three pieces wired for sound and Nam June Paik's black TV, the era's burgeoning preoccupation with technology is remaindered to the exit with works celebrating the space programme.

«It's a show about my early life online and it deals with this era of sharing things before the social media we know today came up... (it) deals with questions about archiving and with how we put so much faith in the Internet» says Soda.

That unabashed bombast has made Wiley a walking superlative: the most successful black artist since Basquiat, possibly the wealthiest painter of his generation, certainly the one who made his name earliest (he was 26 for his first major solo show), a gay man who has become the great painter of machismo for the swag era, a bootstrapper from South Central who talks like a Yale professor (much of the time), a genius self - promoter who's managed to have it both ways in an art world that loves having its critical cake and eating the spectacle of it, too, and a crossover phenomenon who is at once the hip - hop world's favorite fine artist (Spike Lee and LL Cool J own pieces) and the gallery world's most popular hip - hop ambassador.

In Chicago in the early 1970s, we had our own third and best - known generation of alternative spaces (each city can claim its own artist - run history, probably with a fair share of boosterism thrown in), such as ARC, Artemisia (both were feminist galleries formed from West - East Bag, a nationwide network of women artists), and N.A.M.E., with the much - heralded Randolph Street Gallery opening in 1979.7 This is not to mention still - running artist - driven efforts such as the Hyde Park Art Center, founded in 1948, and the South Side Community Art Center, the only surviving Federal Arts Center from the WPA era and the oldest African American art center in the country, famously dedicated by Eleanor Roosevelt on opening day in 1940.

School buildings constructed in earlier eras were of much higher quality; they sent the message to students that the community cared about their education as an investment in the future of that community and society.

According to Caspari, the find indicates that people from that era spoke a much earlier form of e-mail language alien to our own, employing the full spellings of most words, and lacking the versatility and advanced expression of smiley - face or frowny - face emoticons.

Early blockchain technology is very much like dial - up era of blockchain and are not very compatible with GDPR.

When the rate of change begins to double in decreasing segments of time, the early stages of change look very much like the linear era.

One of the biggest problems with the early Windows XP - era Indexing Service was that it was too much too soon.

Sen: As you referenced, the «urban renaissance» in the early 2010s was as much about the particular circumstances of that era as anything.