Sentence examples for a bygone notion from inspiring English sources

In Savage's view, forty-something rock critics had canonized a bygone notion of "indie" that was never all that relevant to him.

They might have the basics a state provides, but no future, that bygone notion that tomorrow will be better than yesterday.

If you buy a ticket, you affirm that jazz is not a bygone form.

A bygone world in a grain of true grit.

The Berlin Wall was demolished virtually overnight, its fragments sold as souvenirs of a bygone cold war.

Putting this all together, in today's surveillance society, purchasing a product no longer protects you from becoming a product yourself and the concept of "buying" privacy and the right to not be surveilled is now merely a quaint notion from a bygone day.

Maybe that's a romantic notion, from a bygone era.

But at nineteen, she had been a beauty queen - Cebu's Carnival Petit Queen of 1931 - a title that, at least in the Philippines, conjures glamour, power, and the romantic notion of a bygone era.

Though initially heavily criticized, its ecstatic remaking of classic notions of a bygone golden age was finally irresistible.

Young begins with Vashti Bunyan, who wrote plaintive songs while travelling across industrial England by horse and cart, and focusses on performers who drew on, and updated, notions of a bygone pastoral time.

That goes for image-quality snobs like myself, too – holdouts from a bygone era who clung to the notion that compact cameras still have a role to play in a world that has mostly moved on.