Sentence examples for patch of time from inspiring English sources

In this scene, and in several others, Mr. Smith shakes off the burden of his performance -- the nearly impossible task of creating, from within, one of the most visible and familiar personages of recent popular culture -- and locates his character not in history, but in a particular patch of time and space.

Of course, it's a small crowd, low on diversity; we're stuck in much the same patch of time and space that was colonized by earlier Baumbach projects, and people's throwaway talk betrays their entitlement: "Where's the gourmet hummus?"; "We didn't budget for the saltwater pool"; and the terrifying "Maureen's cooking shark".

Yet more than that, it is also a brief patch of time where going out retained its sense of rebellion.

Sure, this small patch of time didn't have any of that late-1990s optimism, but neither was it burdened by the gradual, creeping dread that spread through Western civilisation through the mid to late noughties.

One night stands, deciding to get a tattoo of the word "serendipity", that brief patch of time where we were all convinced Gavin and Stacey was really good these things all happen.

John Higgs, author of The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band That Burned a Million Quid, has decided to address some of these less covered 20th-century developments in his new book, Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of The Twentieth Century, an alternative history of this weird and wild patch of time that we've just clambered out of.

Since the appointment of Mr. Thain in January, Mr. Reed has been an infrequent presence at the stock exchange, spending patches of time at his retreat on an island off the coast of France and resuming in some form, his previous life as a retired executive.

I can work for a few hours a morning, return when I have patches of time, and make headway.

It is important to carve out patches of time to allow for understanding and processing the information you have consumed.

In a busy neighborhood that couldn't afford to leave things as they were, it is a small, meticulous patch of arrested time.

Based on recent studies of the cosmic microwave afterglow of the Big Bang, with which our known universe began 13.7 billion years ago, many cosmologists now believe that this observable universe is just a tiny, if relentlessly expanding, patch of space-time embedded in a greater universal fabric that is, in a profound sense, infinite.