Only a distant relic, the long-abandoned parachute jump, made it look a little like Brooklyn.
Arrigo went on to describe a future where the rise of "incredibly immersive synesthetic experiences" had rendered the current concert model people standing together in a room a distant relic.
The exploration of the wreck is part of a broad federal effort to document and preserve the historical artifacts and biological wonders in 14 marine sanctuaries the United States has established since the 1970s, from the site of the Civil War ironclad Monitor in the Atlantic to the corals of the Florida Keys to the rich sea life and war relics of distant Pacific atolls.
They may be exotic relics of the distant past, but the struggle seems familiar.
Such good-will gestures now seem like relics of a distant era.
Lately, he has been casting a variety of objects in volcanic ash and shattered glass, creating sculptures that look like archaeological relics from a distant future.
The Sony Corporation and its production studio, Sony Pictures Television, which controls the rights to those and many other relics of a distant era of television, have come up with an answer to that question: three and a half to five minutes.
I do not believe in God, but the image of the Angel of the North moves me, as do the relics of our distant spiritual heritage strewn randomly around the British landscape: Stonehenge, the Cerne Abbas Giant, Ann Widdecombe, and the former archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.
That city has launched plans to establish a museum to exhibit, not Egyptian mummies or other interesting relics of the distant past, but the products of modern industry–'automobiles, locomotives, ships, submarines, airships, machinery and the like.' Through the generosity of exemplary citizen Julius Rosenwald, $3 million is already available".
To work our way out of this, we must reflect on and explode these incongruities, not relegate them to the realms of opinion or politics, nor dismiss them as relics of the distant past, but rather recognize them as central to the American condition.
