Sentence examples for historical span from inspiring English sources

As the collection of his articles that we publish today makes abundantly clear, his career covers an astonishing historical span.

Work on the contemporary period of such sweeping vision and long historical span was virtually unknown in Franco's Spain.

The Man of Marble trilogy is in many ways his most formidable achievement, more fascinating for having been completed so late in its own historical span.

By Richard Brody September 30, 2017 "Zama," a new film by the Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel, builds an intimate drama onto a grand historical span.

Magnificent Obsessions' treats are of a more limited historical span – broadly the past half-century – but the show is a rich testament to varied desires and uses.

"Zama," based on a novel by Antonio Di Benedetto (which Benjamin Kunkel wrote about in The New Yorker), is set in the eighteenth century and builds an intimate drama onto a grand historical span.

The global, trans-historical span of her borrowed female imagery led some to accuse her of feminist "essentialism" – of assuming that the possession of biological femaleness trumped women's local, historical identities and allegiances, bringing all women together in a nice warm bath of female community and mutual understanding.

Based on measurements with a Robotic Total Station (RTS), we computed the displacement characteristics (pattern, amplitude, frequency) of the Gorgopotamos Bridge, a short-span, historical bridge in central Greece, in response to passing trains.

Name-checking Cloud Atlas, he wrote: "Translit novels cross history without being historical; they span geography without changing psychic place.

And for those with an even shorter historical attention span, we give you the story of Cardinals receiver Anquan Boldin's wacky season: "He tangled with management.

To describe the novel, Mr. Coupland coins the term Translit, which he explains like this: Translit novels cross history without being historical; they span geography without changing psychic place.