Survivors will die or move away, neighborhoods will sour, sensibilities will change and modern events will eclipse bygone ones.
Today, long ball is largely considered a tactic from a bygone era, one that doesn't mesh with the cosmopolitan age.
Fein and Schneider took characters straight out of the pages of contemporary women's magazines, complete with unattractive weight obsessions, a tendency to natter on about themselves and desperation on the subject of Mr. Right, and inserted them into a cartoon of a supposedly bygone world, one in which women practice impeccable sexual restraint and hard-nosed romantic pragmatism.
In fact, newspapers in 2015 feel part of a bygone era; one of more responsible journalism, and a centralized important source for information.
When people like Trump say they want to bring a return to "law and order," they are talking about a particular kind of order from a bygone era, one in which a white man's dominance in society was an unquestionable fact.
Perhaps this was the last remnant of chivalry from a bygone era when one did not blindly unleash weapons of mass devastation on civilians and children.
Here, in "The Three Stooges," the spontaneity is gone in favor of a catechistic rigor, which results from the Farrelly brothers' unyielding and unquestioning faith in a bygone comic tradition — one that came into being with a wondrous sense of discovery but, here, becomes a ritual incantation (albeit one that's infused with a personal sense of purpose).
If Mr. Soifer's Ocean City sounds like a town trapped in a bygone era, no one seems to be complaining.
They were monuments to a bygone social era, one in which the rich could afford the armies of servants needed to maintain a house the size of a European palace.
Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and College Leaders, said the changes were harking back to a bygone era: "Creating one un-tiered examination for all students, from those with learning difficulties to potential Oxbridge candidates, is an immense challenge with no guarantee of success.
