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Like all of Penelope Lively's books, "The Photograph" is concerned with the hold that time past exerts over time present, and the uses and abuses of memory.
In novel after novel, Pat Barker has examined the hold that time past exerts over time present, be it memories of combat haunting soldiers in her "Regeneration" trilogy or family ghosts haunting a couple's marriage in "Another World".
"Home" encapsulates all the themes that have fueled her fiction, from the early novels "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye," through her dazzling masterwork, "Beloved," and more recent, less persuasive books like "Love" and "Paradise": the hold that time past exerts over time present, the hazards of love (and its link to leaving and loss), the possibility of redemption and transcendence.
All of Ms. Morrison's perennial themes are here: lost innocence and the hold that time past exerts over time present; the sufferings sustained by black women at the hands of black men; the fallout that social change and changing attitudes toward race can have on a small community; the possibility of redemption, if past grievances and hurts can somehow be left behind.
Time and the supernatural are also at the center of her new novel, "Her Fearful Symmetry," an entertaining but not terribly resonant ghost story about two generations of twins, which like all ghost stories, addresses the hold that time past exerts over time present.
Only gradually are the relationships between these characters and their ancestors revealed, resulting in an elliptical, jigsaw puzzle of a narrative that italicizes the hold that time past exerts over time present, and the startling changes that have swept through the reservation and the small towns nearby in the space of a couple of generations.
The outcome of Irena and Josef's encounter and its fallout on their lives will come as a surprise, but in retrospect will also seem inevitable: the fruit of their shared emotions about returning home and their very different feelings about the hold that time past exerts over time present.
Weak economic data and floods and tornadoes in the Midwest also made investors anxious, he said, but those factors are past , and over time he expects that the junk bond markets' low overall default rates, as well as coupons paying an average of 7 1/4 percent, will win investors back.
As you likely would have expected, many municipalities have incredibly archaic data systems, making generating reports of past expenses over time difficult if not nearly impossible to execute.
They help us solve problems and interpret information quickly based on patterns we've experienced in the past , reinforced over time.
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The phrase "past over time" attempts to link past events with a duration, but its structure is unconventional. As Ludwig AI highlights, the phrase is not considered grammatically correct. Its intended meaning is often better conveyed using standard prepositional phrases.
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