Sentence examples for battered time from inspiring English sources

The film is set in the mid-19th century, but it was made in the early 1940s, while France was under German occupation, and what an extraordinary achievement it was to recreate the world of the 1830s and 40s in that battered time.

Every Sunday, for longer than anyone can remember, two battered, time-worn guitarists have met there to play, on battered, time-worn guitars, popular jazz tunes in the manner of the Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and his Quintet of the Hot Club of France.

The recall campaigns have been battering, time-consuming, confusing (four separate elections have been set for July and August) and remarkably expensive.

But American consumers are battered this time.

While retirement may still be feasible for the affluent, those less well-off or younger people whose modest portfolios have been battered need time to rebuild.

Those eyes were never bigger – or braver – than in this unillusioned, atheist painting of the artist battered by time and recognising the nearness of his own mortality.

While much of the city's housing stock has been battered by time and climate, there are new shopping malls and multiplex cinemas, and a brand new philharmonic hall opened in November.

"Morgan Stanley Star Is Among Those Battered; No Time for Music Now," the Wall Street Journal 's front page blared.

They're astonishingly thin, edges brittle and blackened like parchments battered by time.

It battered my time-compass.

Facing thousands of miles of open ocean, Lan Yu is battered several times a year by some of the most powerful storms on earth.