Sentences with phrase «relics of the 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

#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 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.

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.

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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.

These guys aren't just dyed - in - the - wool mavericks, cruising around in a gleaming turquoise Oldsmobile Cutlass in their pristine three - piece suits, sinking suds and scoping out their next suspect, but relics from a bygone era of US law enforcement where the rulebook was more or less open to interpretation.

* Gone are the days of the television Western, and though How the West Was Won was a bit more Little House on the Prairie than Rawhide for my taste, it's a relic from a bygone era of weekly Western entertainment.

The books of the bygone era, passed onto us as public assets need to be preserved and cherished as relics, while also made to meet the -LSB-...]

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.

But while Mandala's interior has been fully updated, Villa Manoly seems like a relic of a bygone retro era, something you... Read our full review of Villa Manoly.

Even though nineties nostalgia has seeped into every corner of our culture, Duke has felt like a relic from a bygone era for years now...

At best, it's a curious relic from a bygone era of videogames in terms of both mechanics and attitude.

An outdoor group exhibition about technology and obsolescence takes inspiration from the High Line, itself a relic of a bygone technological era.