Sentence examples for past futures from inspiring English sources

Few things, it turns out, are as passé as past futures.

Their "past futures" should be revisited in light of the present ones, and possibly as a source of insights on their "future futures" (Jedlowski, 2013; Luhmann, 1976).

Within my narrative analysis, it stands out as a focal point, first, for reconstructing migrants' past futures as elicitors of aspirations; second, for comparing past aspirations with present achievements and, as critically, present, but future-oriented aspirations.

The proactive stance which arises in the accounts of their past futures – what Portes (2012) calls "the immigrant drive" – contrasts with the mixed and uncertain attitudes towards their present futures.

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MIXER: Past Futures conjures the spirit of both early internet theories and visual style, suggesting an alternate version of our own current reality, reflecting what was and what could be.

Manufacturing is the past future.

The directions of silence:north, west, south, past, future.

Past, future — these are things that cannot be altered.

It's a sort of past future conditional, if that makes any sense.

The past future of the novel did not lie in being digitally produced.