Sentence examples for classic epoch from inspiring English sources
Even as the modern-day Big Apple excels in the ultra avant-garde everywhere from the fashion runway to molecular gastronomy to street art, the slightest provocation (the tinkle of a jazz piano, the glint off an Art Deco skyscraper) can send you hurtling back in time to a more classic epoch when Gotham was just coming into its own as a world city.
In fact, his great poem enjoys the kind of power peculiar to a classic: successive epochs have been able to find reflected in it their own intellectual concerns.
"Funny, the Fifties," observes Frederica Potter in A S Byatt's classic account of that epoch, The Virgin in the Garden (1978).
David Lean and Stanley Kubrick's 1960s movies are epoch-defining classics and doubtless tick over nicely in DVD rental and TV airings, but neither dead director was breaking box office records this past decade.
£400, brownsfashion.com WHITE SHIRT Kris Van Assche, Homme designer at Dior, has pinned tokens and talismans to the classic white shirt: among them Dior's initials, and a '47' for the year he created his epoch-defining New Look.
In this classic work of intellectual history, Ernst Cassirer provides both a cogent synthesis and a penetrating analysis of one of history's greatest intellectual epochs: the Enlightenment.
