Sentence examples for historic references from inspiring English sources

Paris 1919 wears its literary and historic references lightly.

"It's basically taking the Black family's historic references away from them".

But the mixture of styles and historic references leaves Mr. Kentridge in a good place, reconnecting with the urgency of real events and very much in motion.

The buildings, meanwhile, gradually lose their decorative mouldings and historic references, stripped back to a more austere language, with traditional Scottish features rendered as bold abstract volumes.

Most of his collections are overlaid with historic references — this season to Victorianism, falconry and "Macbeth" — but instead of informing him, they serve as a kind of barrier.

Historic references include one by Father Frederic Baraga, a missionary priest in Michigan, who in his 1878 dictionary wrote: Maehkaenah is the Menominee word for turtle.

Finally, when popular culture can't explain what's befallen us, there's always historic reference.

"In some cases, the architects have not paid attention to historic reference, and it just looks haphazard," he said.

But that historic reference has been washed away this year as residents have repeatedly had to muck out their houses and businesses.

"With the historic reference and our puerile interests, it seemed a shame not to bring it into the piece," says Rosenberg.

To understand the building's crazed ambition, its monumental scale and its determined avoidance of any historic reference or cliche, you need to know that Kharkiv was the capital of "Soviet Ukraine" from 1919 to 1934.