Sentence examples for condensed span of time from inspiring English sources

Wyler's film has its present tense built into it; the action takes place more or less at the time when it was filmed, and it packs the characters' lifetimes of experience into a condensed span of time, filled with their own retrospective views of what has changed.

It's a Texan family saga condensed into a brief span of time (a little more than a year) and it's filled with enough backstory for a season of soap opera (and the movie does run two-and-a-half hours, which never drag).

Cliff's narrative covers a huge span of time.

STAMFORD "A Span of Time," paintings by Henriette Simon Picker.

"We're only here for a span of time, and no matter how you go, that was your time span.

Both of Welty's brothers died in the same span of time.

Prolonged recognition time for faces (in terms of a socially accepted span of time).

In terms of condensing the block of time required for participants to demo, the jury is still out.

Similar illusions about the spans of time occur in dreams.

I like to think in large spans of time.

Fundamental to finance over long spans of time is the time value of money.