Sentence examples for cyclical time from inspiring English sources

Cyclical time, periodic time repeats itself as an eternal process.

The distinction between linear and cyclical time is therefore not always neat.

Tobacco was associated for him with his grandfather, with a kind of ritualized cyclical time order, where the cycle of the seasons was marked by tobacco farming.

In the novel, linear time — from the founding of Macondo until its disappearance — is intermingled with cyclical time: The names of the characters and their tragedies are repeated.

Successive rooms then explore ideas of birth and rebirth and cyclical time – the dialogue between time and eternity; the cosmic body and the place of astrology in determining the body's place in time and space, illustrated by some dazzling Jain maps and cosmological images that look like vorticist abstracts.

Mellor (1998, ch.12) argues in this way against cyclical time and backwards time travel.

Understanding cyclical times past will help us understand the problems that currently challenge the global economy.

Splitting our entire 1998 2013 in half, we find that γ, if anything, became slightly less cyclical over time, but differences are small and insignificant.

Two examples from my ongoing ethnographic research in Shoreditch make the point that growth is still possible, even in economically cyclical hard times.

What Fashion can feel cyclical at times — I'm wearing last year's dusty-pink jumbo-cord trousers as I type this.

This fluidity is cyclical at times - just follow the auction prices long enough and you will see artists ebb and flow.