Re "A Lasting Shadow" (Dec.
And then you notice how the watercolour puckers the paper just like twisted cloth and how it seeps into the page exactly like the stains on a mattress: patchy, uncontrollable, a lasting human trace.
We live in a blockbuster entertainment culture, where the biggest Hollywood movies, most of them pitched at teenagers, saturate the market for a week or two, then vanish with little lasting trace on the collective consciousness.
On the ground in Haiti, little lasting trace of Yéle's presence can be discerned.
Perhaps Kessler felt that he would leave no lasting trace of his astounding life; if so, he was mistaken.
The ordinary pleasures of raising children are not often talked about, because they are unspectacular and leave no lasting trace, but they sustained me for years as our boys grew and flourished, and they continue to sustain me now.
But the act's legislative history makes clear that Congress never intended to stop people from using their own power to travel or shepherd their children, or from using light mechanical assistance that leaves no lasting trace.
There was something about them — paintings of hunters and animals, real and mythological — that struck him as both "mysterious" and "persistent," creating lasting traces of "people who had been forced out of the land".
Grace can be expressed in the "rigid and restful features" of an individual's physiognomy only insofar as those features themselves "were originally nothing other than movements that through frequent repetition became habitual and left lasting traces" ("On Grace and Dignity," NA 264; Curran 134).
The Owen Smith campaign isn't likely to leave many lasting traces on British culture, but one of them might be the final, wheezing, gasping, death of 'banter' as a word that's acceptable to use under any circumstances.
