Sentence examples for in a distant age from inspiring English sources

In other ways, the art is almost beyond reach, being about the power politics of spirituality in a distant age.

In other ways, the art is almost beyond reach, being about the power politics of spirituality in a distant age, a subject that today's drive-by museumgoer would seem to know little, or care little, about.

This is because there is utterly no uniformity among the state statutes, which are all over the board in what they exempt or do not exempt, and also were drafted in a distant age before the various types of modern life insurance policies proliferated.

In some ways, Olivier belongs to a distant age: a time when one actor could be seen as head of the profession and when acting itself was a form of Protean disguise.

In this (as in remarkably few things), Kennedy seems a relic of a distant age.

The worries about presidential government that attended Tony Blair's thumping majorities the last secured in 2005 now seem like the naive cares of a distant age.

Freewheeling intellectuals such as Bertrand Russell, Eric Hobsbawm, Richard Hoggart and EP Thompson seem now like figures from a distant age.

Today, the sci-fi novels of the sixties feel like artifacts from a distant age.

The debating chamber of Cambridgeshire council belongs to a distant age.

Sixty years later Lewis seems more than ever like a figure from a distant age.

And all this in an impossibly distant age when no one seemed to have the smallest clue how to manage either chronic illness or pop music careers.