Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence brought a present-day sensibility to the characters' romantic dilemma.
"No use talking if he hasn't brought a present".
But that's a present day problem.
Lucy brings to mind a present-day Mae West — a woman of experience who's as likely to be found doing crystal meth with the boys in Chelsea as wrecking Kate Monster's relationship with Princeton.
When he was ill she brought him a present each day.
From the promulgation in 1988 of a new constitution, the reader is brought to the present day.
Instead, Chazelle brought classic jazz into a present-day love story.
That brings it to present day, the holiday season.
Caesar's mother is one of many primates caught in the jungle and brought to present-day San Francisco, where they are experimented on in the labs of a drug-research corporation that is amoral and profit-driven in the time-honoured manner.
Could they have done a more interesting reinvention – brought it to the present day, with Ross returning home from a tour of Afghanistan, to find the family caravan park run down?
This brings us to the present day, a time when the the sole incarnation of rebels' and misfits' most-valued symbol manifests, as if by magic, in Terminal C of the Newark airport.
