Sentence examples for earlier epoch from inspiring English sources
Increasingly, we are developing nostalgia for a much earlier epoch: the Pleistocene, when humans lived in small hunter-gatherer groups and didn't worry about high cholesterol.
Silent and noble, these unhurried men seemed connected to an earlier epoch, and I understood that this was the true gift of the day.
In an earlier epoch, Galileo had turned his telescope to the Milky Way and saw that it was composed of countless individual stars.
In 1947, the Braidwoods, who had married 10 years before, turned their attention to an earlier epoch to test the theory that an agricultural revolution had preceded the development of civilization.
More than half the roster was turned over in that first summer, but Schwartz also changed the team's psyche, removing almost every vestige of the earlier epoch that might remind players of how bad the Lions were.
A plump gray one scuttled down the narrow hallway outside the offices - known by the nickname "the shack," from an even earlier epoch in city policing than Mr. McAlary's column-writing time - last Saturday.
What I'm saying is: I like the sound that Double Sextet makes, and I'm glad that the Steve Reich of today is getting the praise his work merits, and not just a slew of lifetime achievement gongs for his earlier, epoch-making pieces.
Our age gives it a validity it does not appear to have had in earlier epochs.
Mann may not have been right when he wrote in his novel "Doctor Faustus" that modernism could only produce works of art that parodied earlier epochs.
The tessera size generally became smaller than it had been in earlier epochs; and contours lost their rigidity, became thinner, and were occasionally abolished.
This move, which was not without its critics, was emblematic of a broader trend to look back skeptically at individuals who were venerated in earlier epochs, and ask how they should be judged by the moral standards of today.
