former age
Example Sentences
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As in a flickering newsreel from a former age, complex events are reduced to symbolic emblems of right and wrong.
From The Guardian • Jun. 18, 2019
Leonard was, in many ways, both a link to a former age of radio and an upbeat host very much in tune with the changing face of the medium in the 1980s and '90s.
From Chicago Tribune • Sep. 5, 2014
Immigrants, claim Chua and Rubenfeld, are wary of "an excessively permissive American culture"--the bogeyman that haunts the dreams of so many who see the U.S. as losing the vigor of a former age.
From Time • Jan. 28, 2014
Matt Thorne in the Independent continued the modernist theme pointing out that ranges from 1918 to 2010, "but Self writes more in the manner of a writer from the former age than the latter".
From The Guardian • Aug. 24, 2012
It seems as if it were a just retribution for those crimes of a former age that the Pope in these last days has had to 251 walk so long in the Valley of Humiliation.
From From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
