Sentence examples for Irretrievable time from inspiring English sources

It is asserted in the fiction of Philip Roth, which summons the vital, striving city of Roth's postwar youth, and in the reminiscences of former Newarkers, whose devotion to an irretrievable time and place rivals that of former Brooklynites.

Perhaps the meze reminded me of an irretrievable time when my aunt and my grandmother had cooked for me, and I had been where I was supposed to be in the world.

Kafka captures the struggle between "the craving for loneliness and a terror of it"; Herbert Morris gives the miracle of people in their "most intimate, unguarded moments"; Virginia Woolf retrieves "irretrievable time".

Kafka captures the struggle between "the craving for loneliness and a terror of it"; Herbert Morris gives the miracle of people in their "most intimate, unguarded moments"; Virginia Woolf retrieves "irretrievable time". The underlying force of the book is the desire to recover the "weight of what's vanished" and fiction's alchemical ability to do so.

It asks some questions we haven't heard much about in all the e-mania, starting with: "How much irretrievable time are you willing to trade away now in the hope that it will buy much more free time later?" Fortunately for the reader, The Leap is mostly about failure, which is famously a lot more compelling (not to mention, instructive) than success.

In this cup tie, until the Republic of Ireland international's second-half burst, he once again spent too much time chasing irretrievable causes.

The notion exists that part of her, lost to time and irretrievable, is echoed by her hidden image, which is reflected from the back of the blue cube onto a mirror in the lower portion of the box.

As Nicholas De Genova argues, Mexican Chicago is produced through migrants' everyday-life practices, which tie this space irreversibly to Mexico and, at the same time, render it irretrievable for the US nation-state.

Some Trump supporters are so far gone as to be irretrievable; don't waste your time on the True Believer.

After that time, the records should be rendered totally irretrievable or reduced to anonymous statistics that cannot be traced to any individual.

Any definitive insight into the formative stages of Roman architectural hubris lies irretrievable beneath layers of the city's repeated renovations through the time of caesars, popes and the Renaissance.