Without too much trouble, we can create a past for this brilliant woman.
I realised I've spent all my life creating a past.
Rarely content simply to re-create a past recording, he restlessly searched for new rhythmic arrangements to showcase the emotion, wit, or pathos of each lyric.
Albert Speer was subject to a Faustian temptation, fell for it, and spent the rest of his life creating a past with which he could deal.
Working with Frankie Knuckles, A Guy Called Gerald, SBTRKT, LONE and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Friendly Fires will create a "Past, Present and Future of Dance Music" experience live at the RizLab arena.
This is not simply a matter of inaccuracy, wilful or otherwise, of the type one encounters in the many contemporary television miniseries that attempt to re-create a past historical era – Showtime's The Tudors, say, or HBO's Rome.
Manhattanites knew little of their Dutch founding fathers, and Irving took advantage of that to create a past that interwove fact and fable; one that presented an appealing portrait of the Dutch colonists as pleasure-loving, pipe-smoking burghers who introduced Santa Claus, doughnuts and diplomacy to America, and let their meandering cows give shape to the streets of Lower Manhattan.
Most teams never even had a team when you had yours so creating a past in your defense is best.
When you create a past for your character, make sure it has a part in melding their personality, not just telling what they did in the past.
It's over and the two of you now represent both the present and the future, and as the days pass, you're both creating a past together too.
It doesn't just strand us in the BlakeButler.exe of the past: it creates a psychological space separating past and present self, and in so doing offers us perspective, pays off in meaning.
