Sentence examples for instant history from inspiring English sources

"Oh, I'm not one for instant history," he responded.

It takes a nimble staff and savvy tools to find and organise this instant history.

Mr. Kharit has done more than his part to create instant history.

Brand-new threadbare jeans were given an instant history and then sold for three figures.

At the same time, he said, "this event just became instant history".

"We thought this was so fantastic; we loved it that our work was instant history for them," he said.

That, of course, is the problem with instant histories: an absence of historical perspective.

Clegg wasn't a shrinking violet at coalition time: he was a mover and shaker (now the instant histories start to be written).

But Yuri Gagarin was an instant history-maker whose achievement transcended the politics of the time.

Oral history projects abound across the country but, at the University of Hertfordshire, the exercise has been dramatically condensed to create so-called instant histories on subjects including supporters of Stevenage Football Club and memories of British migrants to the Antipodes.

And TLC brings us an instant-history look at a real-life case involving those two things out of Kennebunk, Me., when it broadcasts "Sex, Lies & Zumba" on Tuesday at 10 p.m.