Sentence examples for past shapes from inspiring English sources

In 52 stories, most no longer than a few pages, the past shapes the present.

In "The Sorrows of an American," a psychoanalyst's quest to understand his dead father's Scandinavian melancholy becomes a stark meditation on how the past shapes the present.

And in any case the play's thought-generating themes — the erratic, mysterious nature of memory and the question of how definitively the past shapes present behavior — do not admit easy elucidation.

Berlin is a city in transition, and there's probably no better way to observe the changes, and the ways in which the city's turbulent past shapes its development, than a journey by bike.

The shining recent examples of design success in the marketplace remain the Volkswagen New Beetle, a reinvention of a classic shape, and the Chrysler PT Chrysler, a more generalized evocation of past shapes.

The building opened in 1915, so for these students — and for tens of thousands of others at schools across the city — a hand from the distant past shapes their daily pilgrimages.

What makes up our identity and how does our past shape our present?

"We cannot undo injustices that have been committed, but our insights into the past shape our perspective for the future".

Now, immigration is a hugely emotive subject … and it's a debate too often in the past shaped by assertions rather than substantive arguments.

There's no denying that perceptions of the past shape political debate going forward.

As we've written in the past, Shape Security wants to change the web security paradigm by shifting costs from defenders to hackers.