Sentence examples similar to a bygone custom from inspiring English sources

By The New Yorker June 23, 2010 Michael Haneke's latest film, "The White Ribbon," set in a German village in the runup to the First World War, relies on a meticulous, quasi-anthropological depiction of bygone customs and mores to dramatize a series of mysterious crimes that seem somehow linked to the region's repressive religious doctrines.

These are not curious details of a bygone era – the custom of male partiality has remained unchanged since its mediaeval beginnings and is still rigidly enforced.

It refers not just to a few quaint customs rooted in a bygone age, but to much of what Iranians live by today.

It is an interesting look into what's an age-old custom vs. what's a bygone insult.

That's a bygone era.

That's a bygone London.

"Relic of a bygone age".

Individual responsibility a bygone virtue.

It seems like a bygone era.

These weapons hail from a bygone age.

They read like artifacts of a bygone Washington.