Sentence examples for historical idea from inspiring English sources

Here that decision was dispiriting, mainly (again) because Mr. Unno and Mr. Jackson couldn't transcend a historical idea.

From the 1950s onwards, a group of French writers, including Claude Simon, Michel Butor and Nathalie Sarraute, challenged the historical idea of the novel.

The group's style is manic, confrontational, profane, and irrefutably smart; sometimes, it seems as if the group were dedicated to reinforcing the historical idea of the teen-ager as a danger to society.

The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, led by the pianist Arturo O'Farrill, has often worked to tease out connections or pay living tribute, with the understanding that Latin jazz is both a historical idea and a vibrant contemporary art.

Ted Sarandos also used a literary analogy when I asked him if he regretted the impact streaming will have on the historical idea of TV as a "shared experience", with everyone watching together.

Though he added that Nahda had been elected "not to govern but to serve", his reference to the historical idea of a united Muslim state headed by a leader representing the community of believers stirred the worst fears of the country's largely secular-minded middle class.

Churchill was attentive to the long line of historical ideas.

He meant that we would do well to apply historical ideas to modern dilemmas.

The symbolic importance and prestige of the Games for cities, nations and corporations has meant that historical ideas of proportionality have basically been abandoned.

Whereas the historical ideas of Lehmann and Arduino were generally accepted, it became increasingly clear that many diverse locally defined rock successions existed, each with its own unique fauna and apparent position within some sort of "universal" succession.

Though he has worked on an intimate scale — in the wonderful "Passion Fish," for example — Mr. Sayles gravitates, as a writer (of novels and screenplays) and a director (of 17 features since 1979), toward populous pageants that illustrate his historical ideas.