Sentence examples for advent of something from inspiring English sources

"We're on the advent of something, and we don't know what that something is.

However, the price of entry to that club has now changed thanks to the advent of something called "wellness".

But the improvements were always incremental, and perfection remained elusive until the advent of something called GPS (Global Positioning System).

That's because for the first time since the advent of television, something strange is happening — we're turning it off.

As W.P. Ker, a pioneer in the study of medieval epic and romance, observed in his Epic and Romance (1897), the advent of romance is "something as momentous and as far-reaching as that to which the name Renaissance is generally applied".

But Valentin sees his career skid into decline with the advent of talking pictures, something Valentin dismisses as a fad.

Historians will remember the advent of the smartphone as something as important as the elevator,  air-conditioner and automobile.

In the 1980's, with the advent of frequent-flier miles, getting something for nothing took a major turn for the better.

Of 70 experts surveyed by Frank Jotzo of Australian National University, 20% said it would be over A$16 in 2016, whereas 40% predicted it would be zero (see chart).Bitter political opposition could not prevent the advent of these taxes, which is something of a miracle in itself.

Moreover, in explaining the advent of lawful existence, Freud identifies something recalcitrant, intractable in social arrangements a kind of self-assault (the super-ego) that links pleasure with aggression, and thus that carries a potentially destabilizing force.

But it also seems like something else: the advent of Generation Y nostalgia.