Sentence examples for enormous past from inspiring English sources

On Moshav Nevatim, a dust-blown, palm-tree studded community on the northern edge of Israel's Negev desert stands a humble little synagogue with an enormous past.

However, the higher concentrations of DDT could also be attributed to the enormous past uses of the parent compound DDT and due to its longer half-life (i.e., slow degradation and its long term persistence in the environment).

But for me, that moment in the Botanical Garden's perennial courtyard amid the crumbling masonry, the glowing late-summer flowers and the fitful tap of hammers from the endless greenhouse restoration project was when the city's enormous, haunting past pressed closest.

— Norman Mailer, "The White Negro" "Spring Breakers" takes place in "that enormous present without past or future".

It winds from gleaming offices past enormous factories and dormitories to a renewable-energy plant and test track.

Cameron said she had shown enormous sensitivity to past issues and problems, as well as the opportunities for the future.

A brick driveway winds uphill across an enormous lawn, and past stables off to the left, to a huge stone mansion.

It looks beautiful; America in the 50s has a plush, fresh aspect - vast, finned vehicles glide past enormous, dark-green lawns.

We'd followed a jungle valley two miles inland, past enormous stands of bamboo and mango trees, to the shimmering swimming hole beneath Hanakapiai Falls, where wide sheets of water cascaded from a towering sheer cliff.

I perceive something much richer, an image that combines all these rough signals with an enormous quantity of past experiences.

In the past, enormous efforts have been made in investigating product platforms, which exploit platforming potential at the design stage.