Sentences with phrase «of a bygone age»

Creeds are often seen as superfluous and confining, or as relics of a bygone age when religion was frequently shoved down unwilling throats.
But it must be plainly said that when they turn to the churches they feel they are entering the atmosphere of a bygone age.
The box contained a veritable Smithsonian exhibit of has - been software, a paper display case for the remains of a bygone age: the 20th century.
Later, the welcome comfort of a lavish, lovingly - restored bedroom, equipped with the most modern of en - suite facilities, awaits to help create dreams of a bygone age when travelling was not just a necessity but a pleasure and an art.
Maybe I'm a little stuck with Lord Kitchener and his moustachioed fellows of a bygone age, but I felt the Twitter focus at the end of the exhibition to be a bit bathetic, considering there are surely far subtler, more traditionally «propagandist» methods of messaging we are all susceptible to online — so subtle perhaps that's why they were missed...
The First Reformed of Paul Schrader's new film is a church, a small edifice in upstate New York with a rich history in the abolitionist movement, a landmark of a bygone age of activism and justice.
Shibley, the co-author of Buffalo's comprehensive plan, drives me around in his Toyota Prius, pointing out the landmarks of this bygone age.
Corinthia Hotel Budapest offers a glimpse of a bygone age as the hotel's original 19th century spa has been restored to reflect its former grandeur while simultaneously offering ESPA's cutting - edge treatments and technologies.
Legislation based on degrees of consanguinity seems like a reactionary remnant of the bigoted bourgeois morality of a bygone age.
To them, the church seems almost totally irrelevant, an icon of a bygone age.
You simply couldn't script this whole mess, its like an Ealing comedy of a bygone age, where a bureaucratic nightmare of such proportions should surely only exist in fiction unfortunately the African continent has to contend with as a nightmare of a reality.
Given the legislative catatonia in Washington, that nugget of history has the quaintness of a bygone age.
More information on the biological diversity of bygone ages can also be found in fossils and old DNA.
I think the culottes are now too young for my style and I just didn't like them anymore, a fashionable reflection of a bygone age of my life.
The Alliance Alive, on the other hand, is merely an echo — a remnant of a bygone age, a reminder of what once was a burgeoning subgenre in a culture of gaming that was much simpler.
Working from a script by Gaby Chiappe, Scherfig — best known for the winsome coming - of - age drama «An Education» — skillfully keeps the tonal shifts in working order, keeping the story afloat in a series of crisp, sharply focused vignettes awash in clattering typewriters, smoldering cigarettes and other appurtenances of a bygone age.
Recently unearthed from decades of storage, the car is a beautifully - preserved time capsule of a bygone age.
I am happy to see libraries finally making a move to catch up with the times, and I look forward with great anticipation to the day when the terms «self - published» and «traditional publishing» are forgotten terms for the quaint prejudices of a bygone age.
Hidden away in the gritty Lavapiés neighbourhood near the city center, everything from the façade out front to the dining room at the back speaks of a bygone age.
Travelling aboard this wonderfully restored steamhauled * train, you get a real sense of a bygone age on the way to Mayrhofen.
The whole region has the imagery and feel of a bygone age, where cowboys still spend lonely months herding cattle across miles of untouched hills and Native Americans still perform rituals passed down through the ages.
Nestled among the colossal skyscrapers, inspirational Statue of Liberty and scenic Central Park of New York, the station built in 1913 has remained more than a symbol of a bygone age before flight became fashionable.
Evocative of a bygone age the famous British steam train journey has been a popular day out for many British travellers for decades.
Located at the heart of the town is Crickleigh House, an imposing Victorian building tastefully and thoughtfully modified to create very comfortable, modern accommodation whilst retaining all the character of a bygone age.
Istanbul Hotel Valide Sultan Konagi is proud to serve those guests who prize the unique ambience and charm of a bygone age - as well as comfort, care and convenience — rather than the impersonal, homogenized facilities promoted by the global tourism industry.
Players assume the role of Ragnar the Viking, the mightiest warrior of a bygone age.
He instead makes palpable the spirit of the bygone age in which they worked.
It was an ecological statement to actually keep these coal heaps, to stay as a sign of a bygone age.
With so many of today's householders opting for larger kitchens the amount of time spent in dining rooms lessens and, if the space is not optimized, they can become an irrelevant hangup of a bygone age.
This set - length thing is a quaint relic of a bygone age.
The villas are characterised by their old roof tiles and the traditional colours of the properties with their yellow ochre and broad strips of red while the interiors retain their wooden floors or handmade terracotta paving and ceilings with oak beams that recreate the atmosphere of a bygone age.
The four churches are all that remains of a bygone age, the age of empires, both temporal and spiritual.
Maybe I'm a little stuck with Lord Kitchener and his moustachioed fellows of a bygone age, but the Twitter focus at the end of the exhibition, though aesthetically impressive, is a bit bathetic.
The hotel's historic frontage, marble floors, sweeping staircase, ballroom and breathtaking six - storey atrium (preserved from the original building) offer glorious glimpses of a bygone age.
... The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.
And those that do (Robertson, for example) we generally regard as cranks and outliers — relics of a bygone age.
The villas on the property are characterised by their old roof tiles and the traditional colours of the properties with their yellow ochre and broad strips of red while the interiors retain their wooden floors or handmade terracotta paving and ceilings with oak beams that recreate the atmosphere of a bygone age.
Has it kept up with the times, or is it a relic of a bygone age?
Such an eccentric move suits a modern artist whose work can resemble the relics of some bygone age: Dove's evocations of natural forces — particularly his omnipotent, pulsating suns — are primordial and unhewn.
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