Sentences with phrase «relic of a bygone era»

I could also imagine proponents of emerging technologies, individualized learning, and competency - based assessments giving up on end - of - year annual tests as relics of a bygone era.

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.

The phrase «respecting players» time» keeps getting bandied about — the notion that developers should refrain from including elements such as RNG, fetch quests, and a whole host of mechanics that seem like relics of a bygone era.

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.

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

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

The half - life of CG technology is now so swift that watching a film made just a single calendar year prior is like seeing some laughable, fusty relic of a bygone era.

Yet, sadly, my grandmother is no relic of a bygone era — hence the establishment of initiatives, such as Let Girls Learn in 2015.

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

He is a relic of the bygone era.

We don't even remember they're there, these relics of a bygone era, but when we finally notice them and look, their sheer size is intimidating, overpowering, frightening.

Instant messaging is now a massively popular method of communication and with so many different dating apps out there offering a new take on it, the old - fashioned method of just speaking to a person seems like the relic of a bygone era.

Perfect for a rainy day, this free museum has something to delight, inspire and give you an easy way to get to know one amongst the relics of bygone eras.

As honestly as «Olive Kitteridge» comes to its understanding of the teacher, wife, and mother whose design for living increasingly marks her as the relic of a bygone era, the miniseries illustrates a relatively narrow view of all the ways we suffer, and perhaps survive, each «big, fat disappointment» we encounter.

He's a dinosaur, a relic of a bygone era who wanders through a personal Lost World secure in the belief that it will never change.

The problem with both is that they are largely based on a relic of a bygone era in education — degree by seat time.

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.

But as authors have learned to become successful on their own terms, with a number of high - profile authors skipping over the agent step and going straight to a publisher after some measure of success, agents have had to adapt or be left behind as a relic of a bygone era.

In other words: the role of the swashbuckling, charismatic, cold - calling trader Charlie Sheen immortalized in Wall Street is likely a relic of a bygone era.

Once inside, it's clear that you are entering a relic of a bygone era.

The Isle of Man TT is absolutely insane, a relic of a bygone era where racing was raw and dangerous.

Still, everyone saw Nintendo as a relic of a bygone era.

I honestly think that Nintendo is a relic of a bygone era when it comes to home consoles.

#privatization #gentrification #immigration #violence #history #freedom At the time of this writing, Pedro Reyes» Doomocracy installation at the Brooklyn Army Terminal feels like a relic of a bygone era.

Appearing as a relic of a bygone era and removed from its everyday function the work becomes a vessel emitting interactive light that brightens or dims depending on the viewer's proximity to its surface.

The image is, in fact, not a relic of a bygone era; it depicts the contemporary artist Rashid Johnson, in the guise of Thurgood Marshall, the first African - American Supreme Court justice, who oversaw the key ruling on Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.

The proliferation of services that help homebuyers and sellers complete their own real estate transactions is relatively recent, and it may have you wondering whether using a real estate agent is becoming a relic of a bygone era.