The phrase "a man whose time" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a man who is associated with a particular period or moment, often implying significance or relevance.
Example: "He was a man whose time had come, ready to make a lasting impact on the world."
Alternatives: "a man of his era" or "a man of the moment".
That it is the cri de coeur of a man whose time has passed does not make the question any less timely.
Achilles is a man whose time has already passed.
He sat down with the sigh of a man whose time had been wasted.
There is a sense, though it plays out very quietly, that The Dude is a man whose time has passed.
With his passion for the wild places of the world, and for the necessity of conserving them, John Muir is a man whose time keeps on coming.
It was also one hell of a night for Coleman, who not so long ago looked like a man whose time was up.
'I was," he reflected, "a young man whose time coincided with the last years of peace, and so was perhaps luckier than any generation since.
"We're no exceptions; we want a beautiful film, so we insist she wake up bright and fluffy even when she feels like dying". And with those words, Miller "finishes the picture". He is an old man whose time is running out, and this may be his last chance to get the tale right, to convince us that his motivations in writing "The Misfits" were purely artistic.
As I see it our choice is between a heroic old man whose time has long past and who will perpetuate failed policy, and a brilliant, openhearted new founding father of the new post-racial, post-divided America the likes of which we have not seen.
Brown, the man whose time Kiryu matched in Hiroshima, is yet to improve on the silver medal he won as a 19-year-old in the senior 2003 World Championships.
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