Sentence examples for better past from inspiring English sources

Yet Europe's postwar tragic age would reveal that, for many survivors, only a better past could slake their grief.

Marina Cantacuzino, from the Forgiveness Project, explained how forgiveness – "giving up all hope of a better past … has helped people enormously in moving on".

The risk, of course, is that nostalgia gives you a sense of being rooted in a better past rather than an unbearable present.

THE FUNCTION OF APOCALYPSE IN LITERATURE: Brian D.: "In some books, the apocalypse serves to wipe the slate clean and start over or return to a better past — it's a projection of the author's hatred for the present age.

Mr. Massie, convicted of murders in 1965 and 1979, had abandoned his own appeals to protest the slow pace of the state's death row, and his last words were, "Forgiveness: giving up all hope for a better past".

His return to the throne was a piece of theatre intended to reassure Cambodians that in his person, there was some kind of connection with a better past and therefore a bridge to a better future.

The Nets have been slightly better, the past season notwithstanding.

"The advice to women is you better get past a certificate," Mr. Carnevale said.

Of course, bureaucracies respond better to past events than to future responsibilities.

"If they can avoid cutting them, that would be better than past downturns".

"I've eaten better these past two weeks than I did the two weeks previous," one student said.