Sentence examples for a dim past from inspiring English sources

He said the song emerged from the folk-song tradition & its history recedes into a dim past.

Such is the usual practice in the scholarship of prehistory, the attempt to reconstruct a dim past from a few stones and shards, some of which may reveal people dancing in the dark through the seasons of life and toil in early agricultural communities.

Joyce himself referred to the chapter as a "prelude", and as an "air photograph of Irish history, a celebration of the dim past of Dublin".

According to comics historian R. Fiore, Eisner's work as a graphic novelist also maintained his reputation as "a contemporary figure rather than a relic of the dim past".

We want upscale, vaguely European ambience in which contemporary culture has been decontextualized, wrapped in a blanket of the dim past, made cozy, comfy, secure, palatable and attractive to the business class.

I'm reminded of a bad moment from the dim past.

My wife and I? We met in the way of the primitives in the dim past, in a student bar, to the strains of rock and roll and the heady fragrance of rum, gin, and lust.

Like some mythic scene, the music portrays somebody's - a nameless, faceless somebody's - dim past, all the details laid out as clearly as entrails being dragged out of the darkness.

Yet Wajda's recognition of the fragility of the people making history, and his avoidance of heroics, continues to keep a hold after the events depicted have moved into the dim past.

It is accurate to say that markets emerged out of the dim past of social and economic exchange as an inscrutable human social "propensity to truck, barter and exchange," rather than to describe them as having been invented.

In the dim past (say, six months ago), it was big news when a major information technology company missed its financial targets.