Sentence examples for historical throw from inspiring English sources

At first glance, Mother's Day appears a quaint and conservative holiday, a sort of greeting card moment, honoring 1950s values, a historical throw back to old-fashioned notions of hearth and home.

He has favoured a longer-term historical perspective, throwing public money at blockbuster exhibitions on Philip II and Charles V that show Spain in a powerful "European" light.

For one thing, these fragments of a rich past were clues for imagining that past as their ambience, and yet the assumptions about historical context threw a distorting atmosphere all around the objects.

There's a creditable amount of art-historical expertise thrown in.

I had no historical weapons to throw back at anybody about anything.

There were a number of historical statistics being thrown around today.

There is a wry, shrewd humanity to his historical interests that throws up constant parallels with 2015, but he never hectors his readers on what to think.

For other critics of comparable stature, such as Charles Sainte-Beuve in France, Benedetto Croce in Italy, and George Saintsbury in England, historical learning only threw into relief the expressive uniqueness of each artistic temperament.

He liked to refer to himself as "no more than a primitive minstrel" when throwing historical daggers around... Ellington maintained an orchestra longer than any other composer ever has--almost 50 years.

Noaa's historical observations were thrown out by unaccounted-for differences between the measurements taken by ships using buckets and ships using thermometers in their engine in-takes, the increased use of ocean buoys and a large increase in the number of land-based monitoring stations.

Britain may be of interest to us Russians as it has demonstrated its ability to throw off historical complexes and phantom pains.