Sentence examples for marking of time from inspiring English sources

"History just counts the olive tree as part of the marking of time".

The Book of Common Prayer in the priest's coat pocket, contains an elaborate system, a liturgical orrery, for the public marking of time.

"A friend or associate who writes a wonderful letter for you — it's a wonderful marking of time, of where you are at this point in your life.

Two well-matched art songs by Ricky Ian Gordon, "Once I Was" and "Sycamore Trees," reflect with wistful good cheer on the marking of time.

From the archaic but new-minted theatre of Down by the Greenwood Side in 1969, to the marking of time in his 1977 ensemble work, Silbury Air, and Yan Tan Tethera (1984), the title of which, based on words from an ancient northern English dialect, is numbers for counting sheep.

Mayan astronomy underlay a complex calendrical system involving an accurately determined solar year (18 months of 20 days each, plus a 5-day period considered unlucky by the Mayans), a sacred calendar of 260 days (13 cycles of 20 named days), and a variety of longer cycles culminating in the Long Count, a continuous marking of time, based on a zero date in 3113 bce.

To me, the mark of time added this layer of metaphor".

Certainly, it would have been a very different book, bearing the marks of time, maturity, experience.

But beauty itself is an ideal of a stable, unchanging appearance, a commitment to staving off or disguising the marks of time.

Others argue that there is no turning back the clock and that the marks of time are a part of history and should be maintained.

It took Rembrandt to recognise the dignity and character of aged faces and to embrace the marks of time as beautiful, mysterious and rich.