Sentence examples for have posterity from inspiring English sources

And Mr. Kurlansky does have posterity in mind.

But as time went by, and as the band stopped listening back, she began to have posterity in mind.

He did not, we must make an effort to remember, have posterity's view of himself.

Which might bother him if he had more vanity, but who needs vanity when he has posterity?

E-mails took over from phone calls — and they had posterity, as we all learned from the Sony hack.

What has posterity ever done for you?" About a year later, in October 1982, Mr. Farman collected Antarctic ozone readings so radically different from anything seen before that he assumed that his 25-year-old Dobson meters had given out.

Paying down debt doesn't win as many votes as pork for the home folks does, and the motto of many members appears to be "What has posterity ever done for us?" Carla Marceau Ithaca, N.Y., Dec. 7.

There is an obstacle in the way: the question, "What has posterity ever done for me?" Reciprocity is what makes the world go round; our sense of fairness is confounded when we are asked to do something for people who, as they do not yet exist, cannot do anything for us in return.

Snyder, the filmmaker, certainly had posterity in mind for his project.

He is better remembered for the language of his speeches than his politics they were riddled with mixed metaphors ("Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I'll nip him in the bud"), malapropisms and other unfortunate turns of phrase ("Why we should put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity, for what has posterity ever done for us?" ).

It might also be fascinating to look at Max Brod's superb biography of his talented, troubled friend, not to mention discussing the way his ideas have shaped posterity and asking what we actually mean by Kafkaesque.