What is not so persuasive is the idea that enlightened mapmakers could somehow break out of the perspectival prison in which we are all consigned to dwell, and direct us to a better world.
Those of us consigned to the cheap seats in coach are tired of being uncomfortable on airplanes, even as those in the high-price business- and first-class cabins — and the new higher-price premium economy seats — enjoy extra space and service, which are especially lavish on international flights.
"Something most of us thought consigned to history books, belonging to a different century, is a shameful and shocking presence in modern Britain".
With a horde of holiday-week schussers checking out equipment, hapless checkers-in like us were consigned to ski-rental hell.
And he manages to fit in a number of domestic objects – some still with us, others consigned to the antiques' graveyard of nostalgia: among them the duvet (once the continental quilt), the teasmade, the bidet, deodorant, electric blankets, Lincrusta wallpaper and those specially built cabinets in which primitive televisions were often concealed.
That poverty pay and pay inequality aren't consigned to the history books but remain with us today shows that the fight is by no means over.
It could yet provide a similar pivotal moment by bringing home to us that the special relationship should be consigned to history along with our empire.
P-gp was discovered using methods long since consigned to history.
Consigned to the here and now, steering wide of melodrama, Tanning sometimes gives us a kind of dreamy, metaphysical small talk — when you think about it, the most defiant use of one's time imaginable, if time is short.
Emails from Hotmail accounts would get consigned to the recipient's spam folders, as if even other people's computers were judging us.
