Sentence examples for for a lost time from inspiring English sources

But this tale of getting and spending in the 1990's, directed by Kenny Leon, throbs with a lament for a lost time, a lost culture, a lost language (2 30).

But a sadness runs through the liveliness: a throbbing lament for a lost time, a lost civilization, a lost language.

While today "nostalgia" is used to describe the longing for a lost time, the word originally signified acute homesickness, a condition widely regarded as a dangerous and often deadly illness.

As we watched the 20-second episode of "The Poker Player's Revenge," I felt a terrible wave of nostalgia, as sadness and longing for a lost time overcame me.

These classical compositions also tapped into a collective yearning for a fabled lost time.

They shook the dust off their feet, buried the experience deep inside their minds, and got on with their lives, seeking to make up, in a way, for lost time and to validate their survival.

In this last book, Grossman, like a man making up for lost time, described with a clear mind and heart the horrors that, for twenty years as a writer, he had not quite mentioned: collectivization, the famine, the camps.

Forgive her this painting frenzy; she is making up for a lot of lost time.

As if to make up for lost time, a stream of home-grown commissions followed.

"Following the rest, in an effort to make up for lost time, I aggravated a knee injury that will rule me out of the Games.

And the capital is certainly making up for lost time, with a host of new clubs catering to a range of nocturnal passions.