Sentence examples for for a disappeared from inspiring English sources

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This could have tipped the enterprise over into a nostalgic exercise in social history, a melancholic reliquary for a disappeared city.

His bed-hopping travel book, No Particular Place to Go (1981), a search for a disappeared B-movie back-lot America, honed his comic skills, and collections such as Writing Home (1985), Self-Portrait With a Slide (1990) and Dock Leaves (1994) saw increasingly sophisticated examinations of his parents and his childhood.

Lott's account of his difficult babyhood, his vexed romances, a horrific encounter with LSD, read like fiction of the best sort, as he carefully marks the changes of his native Southall, once a rosy, privet-hedged refuge from urban poverty, now a community gone to the dogs, its song of personal tragedy sounding a lament, too, for a disappeared, hopeful England.

Invariably, according to the report, the frequent declaration that Derechos Humanos receives over the phone from families who call their Missing Migrant Crisis Line, is: "Estoy buscando a una persona desaparecida./I'm looking for a disappeared person".

A human rights defender from the state of Coahuila explained that searching for a disappeared loved one implies "always having to be in the hell of the institutions, which are often infiltrated by crime".

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Fact two: while he was at least a very good pilot for a while, he disappeared for a year".

In its elegiac lament for a disappearing river, the book chimed along with America's budding environmental movement.

It's a strange book you have to take for what it is: a lament for a disappearing time.

Set in a flaking hotel doomed for demolition (the title refers to its damaged sign), the play was an unashamed lament for a disappearing America.

They are gently lyrical and also, as in "Burn This," surging with visceral emotion -- and they are underlined with a longing for a disappearing past.

Spiegel has even admitted that Brown came up with the idea for a disappearing-messages app.

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