Sentence examples for a distant reminder of from inspiring English sources

For years it has been a distant reminder of Britain's austere past and of the days before fancy cereals and continental breakfasts.

This is a return to a favourite topic of Kureishi's – intimacy – and for me the movie is a distant reminder of his 2001 film Intimacy, directed by the late Patrice Chéreau.

It's as silly as it sounds, stilted and cheap-looking in its waking action – but the dream sequences, rendered in marbled monochrome with slashes of red and yellow, provide a distant reminder of the master's dormant gifts.

Only Leonard Peltier remains behind bars as a distant reminder of those hateful and fateful days.

The lack of accepted curricula seems a distant reminder of the many gains made before evidence-based medicine.

Those championship trophies sitting in the window of the Lakers' practice facility have become like the stopped clock in Miss Havisham's house, distant reminders of an era when things ticked.

That era seemed distant, a reminder of the time when apartments like hers were common, before landlords cut them up to house the thousands of immigrants that settled into upper Manhattan.

In several interviews last week inside and outside the Police Department, those who talked about the detectives' deaths said that the shootings seemed like a dispatch from a distant past, a reminder of an older kind of reality -- no less tragic than Sept. 11, but different.

There was the continual sound of distant sirens another reminder of New York on September 11th.

It stands today, largely used by a variety of small manufacturers, a reminder of distant ties that still bind.

For them, carnival was not a cultural reminder of a distant and different home but a means of asserting their claim to the only home they knew.