Sentence examples for perpetually past from inspiring English sources

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Let's avoid general statements… And so, to approach the reason obliquely: the subject of "The Escape" is immaturity — as examined through the problem of Haffner's memory, which keeps returning to him in strange and inappropriate fragments; he is perpetually past and present.

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Even if one is not, strictly speaking, "haunted," the past is perpetually with one in the present, and the longer it grows and the further it recedes the stronger its presence seems to become.

In 1905, across the street from the oval, the ornate Heins & LaFarge subway kiosk opened, with its filigreed masonry and its big clock with Roman numerals, stopped perpetually at 10 minutes past 11.

Indeed, in a world where fashions from the past are perpetually rehashed into style mash-ups, it is the brands which let their suppliers inspire them that have the strongest edge.

Even if one is not, strictly speaking, 'haunted', the past is perpetually with one in the present, and the longer it grows and the further it recedes the stronger its presence seems to become.

We're so awed by the past, so perpetually indebted to forefathers and those-that-went-before-us that we end up suffocated by history.

The whole mix is, he admits, pretty nostalgic, capturing the sounds of his childhood and ending with the perpetually stuck-in-the-past tune, Fatima Yamaha's"What's A Girl To Do".

Care should also be taken not to glamorise suicide or its victims; and not perpetually to repeat details of past suicides at a particular place.

Mr. Farley's set, dominated by walls paneled in clouded glass, and Hartley T A Kemp's crepuscular lighting evoke a world perpetually in the gloaming, a past remembered, fondly and regretfully, through a haze.

She's perpetually on guard against a past riddled with pain, and when her husband, Donald Harold Surrattt), replaces a landscape painting in the living room with a map of their native land his annoyed wife takes it down; she prefers her soft, generic image to a reminder of the war-torn, poverty-ridden country that produced her, and her dreams of middle-class normality.

It feels as though he's been about 76 years old for the past 30 years, perpetually curving his spine into a stoop while shuffling through his mansion in satin slippers and that smoking jacket.

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