former age

"The decision for Mr Johnson is whether to follow his predecessor's policy of restraint on new appointments to the Lords or revert to the approach of a former age."

As in a flickering newsreel from a former age, complex events are reduced to symbolic emblems of right and wrong.

Those beautiful murals, symbols of a former age, are fading from view.

She said: "Politics is like any other activity in life - it has phases, it has spans, and I think particularly when the Conservative Party lost all its MPs in 1997 - I think a lot of younger people thought, 'they're from a former generation , they're from a former age , we more readily connect with this emerging SNP'. "To be fair to the SNP, I think it made a very significant success in engaging with young people - but I think the Conservatives are catching up.

The French Quarter has become something of a Jurassic Park for Creole cuisine, a contained area in which to see shrimp rémoulade, oysters Rockefeller and other giants of a former age in all their lumbering glory.