Sentences with phrase «of a bygone age of»

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.

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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.

But the saying does not, in fact, relegate the Baptist to a bygone age; rather, the opposite is the case in that «From (apo) the days of John the Baptist...» must be understood as including the Baptist in the present age, that of the Kingdom (E. Percy, Die Botschaft Jesu [Lunds Universitets Arsskrift, N.F. Adv. I Bd.

Snouck's extraordinary collection of sepia - tinted images of Mecca in a bygone age have gone on display in Dubai ahead of the annual Hajj pilgrimage that originally drew him to the heart of Islam.

And those that do (Robertson, for example) we generally regard as cranks and outliers — relics of a bygone age.

And yet Roberts (and the kinds of judges that have been appointed by Republican presidents in recent years), will soon seem like the heroes of a bygone golden age.

But it must be plainly said that when they turn to the churches they feel they are entering the atmosphere of a bygone age.

In fact, its Old World décor and formal style are hardly relics of bygone fine dining, but rather refreshingly counter-trend in an age when top chefs are going downscale with casual, noisy restaurants and even food trucks.

The Petersen is held on the second floor of a shabby - walled, musty - aired building on Chicago's dingy - gray South Side, and it admittedly belongs to a bygone age of bowling.

Bo Wilson was one o the main people saying hes too small, an most of those keepers you mentioned are ithr long retired in a bygone age or play abroad

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.

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...

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 four churches are all that remains of a bygone age, the age of empires, both temporal and spiritual.

Dripping with Freudian innuendo, the advertisement seems mired in a bygone age — the 1950s, perhaps — when men took charge of machines, women wore (and were) fluff, and smoking was sophisticated.

It may seem a romantic bygone age of great wealth but there was also severe hardship.

Others are probably going to come at this from a curmudgeonly place (as I in fact did), questioning its paper - thin premise while lamenting this repurposing of some of the most distinctive pop pleasures of a bygone age.

John Landis» star - filled, documentary is a portrait of a bygone era (some keywords: schtick, Miami, Shecky) and most of all of a man named Rickles, a giant who continues to stride among us at the age of 81, his timing deadlier than ever.

Yet there's nothing mirthless about the Coens» joy, which echoes around the corridors, soundstages and «Wallace Beery Conference Rooms» of Capitol Pictures as they lovingly, ludicrously lift the lid on a bygone screen age.

There is breezy comedy to be made of a YouTube - age writer meeting the icons and idols of a bygone, classical era («Bill and Ted's Literary Adventure»), but Allen goes deeper, expanding on his time - travel device to make unexpected and unexpectedly generous observations on the enduring nature of art and artists.

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.

Many schools understand this and exploit technology effectively and in context, but many are still attempting to deliver success in the context of education structured in a bygone age.

My suggestion in this post is to engage with the simple but worthwhile act of sending a postcard — something that I admit seems from a bygone age.

This Industrial Age «factory model» of education served a purpose in a bygone era, but it is woefully inadequate for the educational needs of the Information Age.

Recently unearthed from decades of storage, the car is a beautifully - preserved time capsule of a bygone age.

The Surrey Hills hail from a bygone age of motoring; slim strips of tarmac snaking between high earth banks, which themselves are held together by the roots of the trees towering high overhead.

It may be an anachronism, a throwback to a bygone era when gas was cheap and consumers were in deeply in love with truck - based SUVs, but the aging Ford Expedition still has plenty to offer buyers in need of an eight - passenger «ute that can handle serious trailering duties.

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.

These writers care about producing something of high quality in keeping with the standards of the golden era of traditional publishing: that bygone age when publishers invested time and money (often paying advances directly to authors) to help writers develop and polish their work prior to publication.

The publishing contract dictates the terms of royalty accounting, and as usual, those terms are mired in the practices of a bygone age.

As a young man, delving into Schwartz's life with only a partial idea of what he was doing, Atlas was nonetheless able to meet many of his fast - vanishing heroes from the New York literary world who had inspired him to become a critic in the first place: Philip Rahv, Dwight Macdonald, Alfred Kazin — giants who held sway over American culture in a bygone, arguably more literate age.

This set - length thing is a quaint relic of a bygone age.

Step aboard into a world of red carpets and high teas with maharajas... rediscover a bygone age of elegance, opulence and romance

With its magnificent transformation now complete, St Pancras went from being a dilapidated relic of the railways» bygone former glories, to a true cornerstone of the new railway age - heralding the era of international rail travel.

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.

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.

In this part of the world, one is forever hearing about some bygone golden age.

Travelling aboard this wonderfully restored steamhauled * train, you get a real sense of a bygone age on the way to Mayrhofen.

Relive the bygone age of rail travel on one of our many tours within the UK and mainland Europe that incorporate wonderfully scenic journeys on historic steam railways.

There are also a number of popular heritage railways, where vintage steam engines and carriages transport tourists into a glorious bygone age of travel.

Monument Valley is still a stronghold of Navajo culture, and even today, the whole region has the feel of a romanticised bygone age, where cowboys spend lonely months herding cattle across miles of untouched hills, and Native Americans continue to perform rituals passed down through the generations.

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.

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.

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.

In truth the game has aged quite badly in terms of graphics and sound but it does still offer those nostalgic feelings of a bygone era of 2D fighters.

Players assume the role of Ragnar the Viking, the mightiest warrior of a bygone age.

During the bygone age of the original PlayStation, a plethora of mind - blowing games were released; (more...)