Sentence examples for perpetual present from inspiring English sources

They live in a perpetual present.

To Chang, the factory girls seem to live in "a perpetual present".

It's in the very nature of fiction that it lives suspended in a perpetual present tense.

"The kids in the banlieues live in this perpetual present of weed, girls, gangsters, Islam," he said.

The greater difficulty was that the Stooges live in a world without consequences, in a perpetual present tense.

He wanted to say that revolution was a kind of cleansing that conferred its own immortality in a perpetual present.

Beckett is presenting to us a perpetual apocalyptic present, a catastrophe already happened/about to happen, in which something as horrific as the holocaust can occur without us noticing.

That kind of temporality is interesting: a perpetual traumatic present in which other periods circulate, polluting one another.

Even more than MTV, which sometimes tries to teach the kids a bit of history (by letting current rappers choose their favorite older song, for instance), Fuse's programming exists in a perpetual pop present, in which only a handful of hits matter.

In that spirit, I want to make it clear that I'm not leaving for any reason other than having perpetual, ever-present, non-STD-related ants in my pants.

Footnotes Tonight the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street, will present "Perpetual Motion: Revolutions in 17th-Century Science and Music," a discussion and performance with Dava Sobel, the author of the best sellers "Galileo's Daughter" and "Longitude," and the early-music ensemble Galileo's Daughters.