Brooks has chosen to have his story take place "perpetually in the current moment, the early twenty-first century," and this allows him to show how Harold and Erica deal with the world we live in now, with its customs, literature, technology, politics and morality.
Because of its current, it perpetually shimmers with strips of light reflected from traffic lights and stoplights.
The inherited dreamscape may help explain why current twentysomethings feel perpetually underrealized, living a manqué version of grownup life.
City officials, however, have said they prefer that the perpetually cramped New York Exchange expand near its current location.
Ms. Gomes and her business partner are leasing two desks on the fourth floor co-working space, a "huge move up" from her company's current office in a windowless and perpetually cold basement, she said.
If you were trying to select the appropriate personnel to refurbish that perpetually half-baked genre the Hollywood stoner comedy, you might ask Judd Apatow, the current king of schlubby humor, to serve as producer.
Taxpayers would not be perpetually on the hook for what, in reality, are the open-ended obligations of the current system.
Tenet's current quarters are almost too small to contain him; he is a large and perpetually restless man.
Only the last matchup featured the teams in their current form: the Knicks with Carmelo Anthony and Boston without Kendrick Perkins, their talented and perpetually scowling center.
The perpetually tight timeline forces experts to make choices about the next flu season even before the current one has faded.
This current generation of youth has been called many things -- narcissistic, apathetic, addicted to technology and perpetually immature, to name a few.
