Sentence examples for Formative centuries from inspiring English sources
During the formative centuries of Christian dogma, there had been many ways of describing that reconciliation, most of them having some precedent in biblical speech.
While slouching against a wall in a former cigarette factory in the industrial outskirts of The Hague one day last month, I was visited with the sudden realization that over the formative centuries of European history the two words that most succinctly signaled "other," "foreign" or "enemy" were these: "Jew" and "Turk".
Ritger studies the role of imaginative literature during formative centuries for the ideas and the practices of correctional institutions, at a time when England's very first "house of correction" — a new kind of prison that would go on to influence the later penitentiary — stood just next-door to one of Shakespeare's stages.
A brilliantly original yet concise and accessible study of Islam's formative first century.
His new book, "Muhammad and the Believers," is a learned and brilliantly original, yet concise and accessible study of Islam's formative first century.
It is true, however, that unlike most other European countries, Britain (with the exception of the Channel Islands) did not have on its own territory the formative 20th-century experiences of war, defeat, occupation and fascist or communist dictatorship.
A tumultuous and formative era, these centuries saw the longest stretch of political fragmentation in China's imperial history, resulting in new ethnic configurations, the rise of powerful clans, and a pervasive divide between north and south.
In Popular Ideologies, Susan Smulyan demonstrates that popular culture represented more than just escape during the twentieth century's formative period.
Both Britten and Auden, who had spent formative time in mid-century America, were all too aware of this punitive era.
Annabelle Lyon, an American ballerina who danced with some of the most important companies in the formative years of 20th-century American ballet, died on Nov. 4 at her home in Mansfield, Mass.
