Sentence examples for a kind of present from inspiring English sources

"Guinness was a kind of present, immediate character actor.

While Plato's Forms play a definitive role in the perceptible realm as responsible for the determinate characteristics of things, they count as a kind of present absence.

Viewed a certain way, fashwave does reflect a kind of present-day Futurist project: a global cybernetic subculture geared towards millennials, propagated by memes like Pepe the Frog, and centered on sites like 4chan and the new Twitter alternative, Gab.

"It's a kind of masochistic present," he said.

Her proposed ticket with Fillon was spontaneous, "a kind of Christmas present for the prime-minister".

To see Dubai is to experience a kind of futerized present.

I wanted to make the viewer enter the film in a different way, experience it as a kind of permanent present that unfolds in front of them.

With a style as blithe and contagious as the Southern accent Harry and Cynthia acquire in spite of themselves, Adams dips in and out of lives jauntily, humorously, in a kind of eternal present tense.

He offers the book as a kind of homemade present, whose "unorthodox methods" include some slightly imaginative reconstructions, at least one Internet anecdote, and a tendency to pad or wander from the subject when his material runs thin.

While records of our activities exist to varying extents, secondary orality shows us how social media exists largely in a kind of eternal present, upon which the past rarely intrudes.

Reversible words promise a kind of perpetual present, in which everything can always be exactly the way you want it (provided you only feel one of two ways).