Sentence examples for a defining era from inspiring English sources

Many readers will, in turn, feel grateful to have met Aubrey at such close quarters and to look through his eyes at a defining era of British history.

Duane Allman, Arthur Alexander, Wilson Pickett, half of Lynyrd Skynyrd… a full accounting of the dead is too sad to contemplate, but Muscle Shoals does us the great favour of putting on camera almost all of the survivors of a defining era in American popular music and of two feuding studios – FAME and its spin-off Muscle Shoals Sound – both located in a single tiny town on the Tennessee river.

The "age of Buffon" became a defining era in natural history and established the King's garden and its Revolutionary successor, the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, as the foremost institutional center of natural-historical inquiry through the nineteenth century (Spary 2000, chp. 1; Corsi 1988, 2001).

So, even in this "concertinaed" timeline -- extending billions of years into the future, as well as into the past -- this century may be a defining era.

He always wanted to get an immaculate view," his student once said, "and I spent my life stepping back to include the garbage in my photographic view". Partridge, one of the last links to a defining era in Western photography who learned not only from Adams but also from Dorothea Lange and his mother, Imogen Cunningham, died of natural causes June 19 in Berkeley.

Such chips are the kind of investments that with extra good luck can remake a franchise, define an era.

But Piketty has written a book that nobody interested in a defining issue of our era can afford to ignore.

"Love to Love You Baby," all 17 minutes of it, set a template that would ignite Summer's career, and a style that defined an era: disco.

Like Sprake, Bruce Grobbelaar is a man remembered more for his failures than for successfully keeping hold of the No1 shirt in a side that defined an era.

Perhaps it will become a quote of the year, or eventually enter the history books and, like Nixon's "I am not a crook," somehow define an era.

One was a reluctant pop artist, the other a YBA – and each defined an era.