Sentence examples for colored past from inspiring English sources

Each new name that I was able to find and print in my notebook was another link to the colored past that had produced, by fits and starts, but also, inevitably, the person I had become and was becoming.

In the early 1920s, Chancellor helped assemble a controversial biographical portrait accusing President Warren Harding of covering up his family's "colored" past.

"We are including the gangs in the trial because they told us they wanted to leave their colored pasts behind, and we want to help".

Suzie's father, who is Jewish, leaves her and the wheat-colored past to go to America, planning to make enough money to send for her and her grandmother.

But it is only when Ms. Maxwell and Ms. Harris are center stage (and this is a play in which everyone vies for that spot) that the show moves from sepia-colored past into flesh-toned present.

Finally, if you try hard enough, you might be able to walk into the Stillwell Avenue subway terminal just after noon and see the amber-colored past coming right down the tracks to pick you up: a gentleman of a train, its top squared off like a crew cut, its cars illuminated warmly with incandescent bulbs, its whistle high and elegant.

Eddie Bauer's troubles started in 1997, when it doffed its plain-colored past in favor of fluorescent sweaters and tropical tops in hope of luring Generation X away from Abercrombie & Fitch.

Nostalgia is great for reminding you of your rose-colored past without drudging up the unnecessary baggage that may taint the memories.

We drove under a shell-colored sky past albino camels standing next to the hulk of a destroyed tank, and through patches of scrub.

In the rear of the pickup was a large pot of what appeared to be cream-colored chrysanthemums, past their prime, and a long narrow cardboard box of produce: gnarly carrots with foot-long untrimmed greens, misshapen peppers and pears, bruised McIntosh apples that the co-op couldn't sell, even at reduced prices.

It moved through different scenes, like a promenade past colored tapestries.