The future, he says, will not look anything like the present.
Merivel visits the Tower of London, where he sees the mangy lions of the royal menagerie and envies their ignorance of anything but the present.
"We do not envisage anything at the present moment," Jean-Claude Trichet, the central bank's president, said at a news conference after a meeting of the Governing Council in Luxembourg.
Washingtonians say they haven't experienced anything like the present surge of enthusiasm since 1961 when J.F.K. took his oath in the pale sun and icy wind.
Lower-class, unemployed white people lived for years in appalling slums without a breakdown of public order on anything like the present scale".
The terrifying persistence of the past is the theme, and the tendency of the past to seem so much more real and more vivid than anything in the present.
The only general opinion on anything which, in her books, she has put on record has been a statement about her craft of prose fiction, and I may quote it — from the foreword to which I have referred — as more to the purpose than anything that the present critic could say.
They wrote: "Lower-class, unemployed white people lived for years in appalling slums without a breakdown of public order on anything like the present scale; in the midst of the depression, people in Brixton went out, leaving their grocery money in a bag at the front door, and expecting to see groceries there when they got back.
Even at the height of the last boom, he says, he never saw anything like the present level of demand.
Is there anything in the present situation, t2, which makes one branch ontologically special as opposed to the other branches?
