Sentences with phrase «of a bygone era of»

[Merchant and Gervais»] meetings are gemlike exchanges of deadpan incompetence and hair - pulling frustration, worthy of the bygone era of comedy teams.

A stellar representative of a bygone era of gaming that put more emphasis on skill and personality that textured polygons or sex appeal.

Those, meanwhile, who couldn't give a fig whether the ambitions of a bygone era of journalism are sacrificed on the altar of daytime TV frippery will nonetheless surely warm to the sight of McAdams plotting frantically while wearing little more than knickers.

Despite its contribution to the near - extinction of India's large cats, this Rolls Royce Phantom is a relic of a bygone era of India's history — one where flamboyantly ornate palaces and generally lavish spending were the norm for a small privileged minority.

Chart the royal terrains of Rajasthan, explore forts and palaces, be a part of the bygone era of Rajput warrior princes whose tales of chivalry, romance and decadence still reverberate in the air of Rajasthan.

Money belts are a vestige of a bygone era of travel.

The exquisitely carved interiors, palette of soft hues and the quaint dà © cor of the coaches reflect the majesty and the rich heritage of erstwhile Maharajas of the bygone era of the South Indian kingdoms.

Any well - informed gamer starting up DNF has hopefully tempered theirs and will understand what they're getting: an artifact of a bygone era of gaming that's been dragged into a new one via a near endless chain of questionable decisions.

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.

After Stony Island failed, Southmoore State Bank and Guaranty Bank & Trust occupied the space, but since the 1980s it stood abandoned, a last testament of a bygone era of Stony Island as a center of life and commerce.

It is a show about a gallerist who embodies the memory of a bygone era of art in the Hamptons, and anyone who was present and working in the arts during that time will be warmed to see it.

But its creation left behind, too, a few relics of the bygone era of travel by land and sea, including one particular piece that's recently found a renewed brush with popularity today.

Not exact matches

Putin's appeal to nuclear might as a tool of persuasion and national power in 2018 represents a bygone era of Cold War competition, and doesn't really change anything.

The team shamelessly exploits its legend by making reference to the great St. Paul Saints of a bygone era — a minor - league team of the same name that rose to fame in the 1920s — at the lucrative concession stands and at its Web site.

«These images of oil - coated disasters need to become reminders of a bygone era, not a sign of things to come,» Gatti said in a statement Sunday.

We have more technology but also low investment levels and growing global tensions, which make dreaming of a bygone era complicated, Janus Gross says.

Our democracy is a wistful relic of a bygone era when corporations and Super Pacs and billionaires could not outspend the average American in elections by staggering amounts of money.

Even amid the rush to make sales via phones and email, retailers are turning to the sales tool of a bygone era — the catalog.

Christine and her friends navigate dating, plans for the future and the hierarchy of the high school - pecking order as news coverage of missiles firing in the desert flash on non-flat-screen box TVs which stick out like relics from a bygone era.

They were monuments to a bygone social era, one in which the rich could afford the armies of servants needed

«Archie represents a bygone era of America, and like all bygone eras, there are elements we miss and elements that should be bygone,» McKay told The Hollywood Reporter.

They study individual relics of bygone eras remote from themselves in time.

Then we make the rounds through heroes of the bygone eras, tossing around names like Bunyan, Edwards and Spurgeon.

Up to now the society has often seemed a more conservative than innovative force in American hymnody, issuing pamphlets of «new» hymns redolent of a bygone era.

What we are seeing now are the death throes of another bygone era, just another form of segregation being laid to rest.

The goal of this speech appears to be to force the normalization of Trump on the terms of the bygone era his supporters are nostalgic for.

Yes, it is a remnant of a bygone era.

The church is often idealized (or demonized) as the last bastion of a bygone era, dragging our feet as we're pulled into new moralities and new spiritualities.

Like the Junior Classics — another icon of that bygone era, with introductions by Harvard's president, Charles W. Eliot, no less — St. Nicholas wanted most of all to instill the nation's moral vocabulary in the young.

A review of a retro cookbook and a truly inspired cocktail recipe from a bygone era... → Read More: Recipes from our past....

Enjoy this whiskey of a bygone era, sourced from barrels of yesteryear.

Remember if you aren't at the head of the class when it comes to the development of young talent, which means eyes on the ground everywhere, a vast array of connections with soccer associations throughout Europe and beyond and a manager willing to properly train and play said blue chippers, (like the 90s Arsenal or clubs like the modern day Monaco and Dortmund) you need to spend to win... anything in between is highly problematic... failure to make the necessary changes leaves you in the proverbial «no man's land» and that is currently where we reside... it's difficult to get out of this rut... just ask either of the Milan teams... next step after that is being known as a «seller», which could be us already if and when Sanchez leaves... there are only two teams that have worn this moniker in recent times and had some decent success and that is Athletico Madrid and Dortmond, which only occurred when they both brought in new, charismatic leaders in Simmone & Klopp... the odds that Wenger could conjure up the magic to repeat the performances of a bygone era are incredibly low, so why prolong the agony... he's not willing to create the hierarchy necessary to go the youth route and he's unwilling to put his team's potential success ahead of his job security by laying it on the line with Moustache, so it's time to place all your chips in the middle or go gently into that good night

This «making do» (i.e. with Flamini and Arteta) should be a relic of a bygone era.

What I mean is that anyone who thinks Boris Johnson michael gove and Nigel farage can get clapped out Britain back on track by vilifying johny foreigner and offering political wet dreams of a return to a bygone Victorian era when «we» ruled the waves are even more delusional than those who thought a team with Walcott giroud Ramsey and mertesakher at its heart were going to deliver us the EPL..

I hear also another of my favorite midfielders from a bygone era, Ray Wilkins, is in hospital after a severe cardiac arrest.

Although doctors are supposed to routinely test for lead, many, even those in the city, think testing is a remnant of a bygone era.

Inspired neon glitter ornaments reminicent of a bygone era.

The wide, park - lined boulevards of Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood still look much like they did in 1900, helping define a community that honors the best of a bygone era.

This is a stand behind walker that is reminiscent of a bygone era in its sheer simplicity and beauty.

The reaction among scholars, activists, journalists, bloggers and PanAfricanists was immediate in identifying the inaccuracies, exaggerations and oversimplifications, which addresses «crimes... from a bygone era» as a tool to cultivate American military support (read intervention) for the Ugandan government, «a repressive dictatorial regime» responsible for looting, rape and atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Yet reactionary forces and demagoguery seek to impose the worst of bygone eras on the present.

If, however, we choose to pursue a different path, we risk allowing others to paint a picture of a Conservative Party stuck in the past, obsessed with immigration and a bygone era.

My concern is that in feeling status anxiety, such egos will try to protect themselves with the frilly trappings of a bygone era when they should really be doing exactly the opposite, instead seeking legitimacy and authority from sources other than fancy titles and formal protocol.

«I don't think it's productive to try to re-create a conflict or a space race that is really the product of a bygone era,» he says.

Its floor is covered in dientes de perro («dog's teeth»)-- the dagger - sharp remains of coral reefs from a bygone era.

Modern accreditation standards mean that many of the Flexner - era ills of for - profit education — little or no requirements for admission or graduation and lax attention to instructional quality or attendance — are long bygone, the authors wrote.

At up to 3 metres long, the Komodo is the world's largest species of lizard, a true relic of a bygone era.

Last month Scientific American asked its readers to send in digital pictures of their favorite gadgets from bygone eras.

Ecosystems are intangibly connected: we still don't know how far the ripples of choices of bygone eras have gone.

Queen of Heartz is a retro clothing brand established in 2001 by owner and designer, Letty Tennant, a lover of fine textiles and classic prints that harken back to the authentic silhouettes and stylings of bygone eras as clothes used to be made.