Sentence examples for a remote past from inspiring English sources

Here in Hull, A-levels in Greek and Latin are part of a remote past (though, as you mention, the A-level in classical civilisation is popular).

The Greek museum officials, Dr. Stampolidis and Dr. Kaltsas, wrote in the exhibition catalog that the collaboration "enhances our understanding of a remote past that may still have an impact on our modern world".

"It is a land of wilderness and ruins," Mr. Gioni writes in his catalog essay, "that exists in an imaginary time zone between a remote past and a not-so-distant future".

Speaking Italian with a slight accent, Bassiri sees Iran as a remote past: "When you are on the path of art, you can only move forward, purify yourself and grow in that [process].

Being able to touch and feel and sometimes even smell or hear things from a remote past may seem less than academic, but this kind of tactile experience adds an almost electric charge to learning that makes it easy to retain knowledge about the past at the same time that it gives us insights into the future.

Involved with them, and of their time, there was a different set of legends, and these too breathe in Claudius's pages, a nostalgia for the republic that was never to return, not in its disordered latter days but in its prime of discipline and virtue, a remote past exemplified by heroes like Cincinnatus, who in the fifth century BC at a time of grave peril to Rome, was elected dictator.

The emotion bypasses words.' The African subplot licenses a speculative retreat into a remoter past.

It is therefore a message from a somewhat remote past to a somewhat remote future, pausing in the present to suggest a poignant dream of what might be, rather than an urgent call to action.

Stated another way, this tree shows that the last common ancestor to all three species lived in a more remote past than the last common ancestor to humans and monkeys.

A RECURRING THEME in Milan involves talk of the "fashion system," made to sound like a planetary group formed in the remote past around a central sun and subject to immutable laws.

It was as if the Irish were being allowed to find only in the remote past a disguised version of the "muscular Christians" of the imperial present, a Celtic hero who was really just a public schoolboy in drag.