Sentence examples for historical mood from inspiring English sources

Today, America's historical mood is uneasy, and notions of America's decline as historically inevitable are intellectually fashionable.

Strange, too, is the show's historical mood; it is set in 1929, but was written in 1954-55.

To help you get in a historical mood, crane your neck up in the rotunda at the collection of whaling images by Clifford Warren Ashley.

To set the proper historical mood, maybe run a Keystone Kops soundtrack in the background?

"Lincoln" the movie creates an unforgettable historical mood or experience that almost no actual history of the period can match.

Despite the gloomy mood, the historical backdrop is stunning progress in human decency over recent centuries.

Here, the mood of historical pastiche and learned joke comes up uncomfortably against the history of European antisemitism.

This is less a critical position or a historical insight than a mood, induced by the usual selective comparisons and subjective hunches.

Now they are older, grayer, and, some of them say, approaching the status of historical footnote, and their mood is darker and angrier than they let on when they returned, in January 1981.

There was also something else that happened around the time of those substitutions that captured the mood on this historical day for Wales.

And both the structure and the time frame freight it with portent; the play gradually sags under the burden of being seen as a social statement, a snapshot of a people or a national mood at a historical turning point.