Sentence examples for not in the history from inspiring English sources

His many years at Leeds were spent not in the history department, but in adult education.

Since the time and the place are located, as often as not, in the history of European painting, Europeans may have found them easier to like.

Nonetheless, for all his pessimism, in Saramago's most powerful novels there remains a stubborn sprig of utopianism, flickers of "what if?" and "why not?" In "The History of the Siege of Lisbon," published in 1989, Saramago redevises the past.

One of the most famous sequences from the film, if not in the history of dance on film, is "The Girl Hunt Ballet," in which Ms. Charisse plays the vamp to Astaire's private-eye stage character.

"It did not matter that the cop they were protecting had committed one of most depraved acts of brutality in memory, if not in the history of the New York City Police Department".

Nietzsche wrote that Wagner was, at bottom, neither a composer nor a poet but an actor, a theatrical personality, who seized on opera as his medium: "He belongs elsewhere, not in the history of music; one should not confuse him with the genuine masters of that...

This sort of evolution is not unusual in the history of the Supreme Court.

The request by antidoping officials was extraordinary, if not unprecedented, in the history of the Olympics.

One of the songs is "Skylark," a significant jazz song that is not significant in the history of Atlantic Records.

They're everywhere: not just in the history plays or the tragedies, but in the comedies too.

Yet there's a disbelief in the dominant culture, because it's not yet in the history books.