Sentence examples for preceding age from inspiring English sources

They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human".

The mildness of his countenance and the softly curving folds of his robe contrasted strongly with the grotesque Buddhist sculpture in the preceding age and represented a much more truly Japanese taste.

The Warring States period is distinguished from the preceding age, the Spring and Autumn (Chunqiu) period (770 476 bc), when the country was divided into many even smaller states.

French writing of the first quarter of the 20th century reveals a dissatisfaction with the pessimism, skepticism, and narrow rationalism of the preceding age and displays a new confidence in human possibilities, although this is undercut by World War I.

Consciously intended or not, Eliot's criticism created an atmosphere in which his own poetry could be better understood and appreciated than if it had to appear in a literary milieu dominated by the standards of the preceding age.

Not quite as free as the girls of the preceding age, whom she envied, she says, with their cloche hats and Futurism, in comparison with her own "wan and bewildered" generation.

There have been four preceding "ages".

(It's haunting to think of the wooden marvels from preceding ages that have decayed to dust).

But in the 20th century, surgery progressed farther, faster, and more dramatically than in all preceding ages.

Standard histories saw the nineteenth-century medical treatment of madness (developed from the reforms of Pinel in France and the Tuke brothers in England) as an enlightened liberation of the mad from the ignorance and brutality of preceding ages.

Our survival analyses followed the effects of the preceding age-dependent knock-down, which determined the state of animals at the beginning of the analysis.