Sentence examples for historical possibility from inspiring English sources

Benjamin calls this "messianic time" in which historical possibility is resurrected over and over again in order to inform our choices at specific historical junctures.

If Fiennes's "Coriolanus" falters, it is less in its sense of historical possibility than in its desire to parcel out the story in modish, media-saturated scraps.

Of course, one could argue the historical possibility and when it doesn't work, the play, as in unforeseen moments here, teters precariously on the comical.

Washington's ambitions may be high-minded but also will fail, as it too defies common sense, historical possibility, and moral reason and limit.

It is not beyond historical possibility that these thoughts have been given to Dido, who was an educated woman in an unusually well-read household; and doing so allows Belle to present the position of women and of the slave trade's by-blows in the 18th century accurately and movingly.

But he also knew that he was unable to posit this for certain, and so proceeded to admit that the image reflects not a historical actuality that we can know but only a historical possibility.

That's how historical possibilities emerge, by such small, certain gestures.

Reform, as Marx knew, has to be rooted in historical possibilities.

But speculative stories aren't just about the rearrangement of historical possibilities.

These undocumented personalities are only composites of historical possibilities, alive for the first time, born out of (or into) their interpreters and fleshed out with their bodies.

Looking at the various uprisings and protests around the Arab world this year, and the various responses to them, you see the range of historical possibilities.