Sentence examples for colonial generation from inspiring English sources

The unusual dramatic conflict at the heart of Picnic at Hanging Rock, in any adaptation, has always been a tension between the white colonial generation attending the picnic, and the Hanging Rock itself, representing the ancient, mysterious Australian continent that white society vainly attempts to control.

Mr. Mehta emerged as the leading light of India's first post-colonial generation of Modernists.

"This post-colonial generation, after we got independence, was always frustrated that, anywhere we went in the world, nobody knew Iceland existed.

The moral and legal equality implied in the universalist shift was not always fully embraced in practice, but it became a standard against which to judge the behaviour of states; it was so used by the 1968-ers authorityuthoriny in general, and against racism by the leaders of the first, post-colonial, immigrant generation in Britain.

Nathaniel Ames, a second generation colonial American, established and wrote Ames Almanacc.

Indeed, the colonial experience of my generation was almost wholly without violence.

Jefferson's mother, who came from a rich and influential Virginia family, was in the first generation of colonial women brought up to run a plantation.

But holding the weeder and working in her garden, Knight lamented the new two-story townhomes that overshadow the first generation of Colonial Town houses.

Our proposed phylogenetic hypothesis seems at first counterintuitive since both doliolids and salps have solitary generations, in contrast to pyrosomes, which are exclusively colonial and are generally considered as the least specialized thaliaceans.

But generations of colonial neglect have been followed by decades of sovereign neglect.

Family lore was rooted in colonial Algiers, where three generations of Gregoris had lived until Algeria's war for independence forced their return to France in 1961.